Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Infrastructure

Shared-lane markings recently installed on the Montrose Avenue bridge over the Kennedy Expressway. Photo: Josh Koonce

Advocates urge CMAP’s transportation committee to reject road expansion projects

By Courtney Cobbs | May 11, 2022 | No Comments

A number of advocacy organizations are urging Chicagoland regional transportation agencies to halt plans to add additional lanes to expressways and arterial streets.

Riding one of the new Divvy scooters at the Thompson Center ribbon-cutting. Note the silver triangle at the front of the scooter for securing it in a docking station. Photo: CDOT

Divvy launches scooters and new pricing, but some members aren’t happy with the latter

By John Greenfield | May 11, 2022 | No Comments

It would be much better if the city and Divvy come up with a pricing structure that encourages ridership, rather than suppressing it.

The driver of a monster pickup truck stops for a family using one of the new pedestrian islands in Columbus Park. Photo: John Greenfield

Columbus Park road diet improves safety, CDOT staffers ridicule Block Club coverage

By John Greenfield | May 9, 2022 | No Comments

In reality plenty of people are benefitting from the project. And emails show CDOT agreed with us that Block Club's coverage, which asserted that the road diet is "causing traffic jams" despite the data, was absurd.

The ghost bike installation ceremony for Lisa Kuivinen, 20, killed at Milwaukee and Racine Street in 2016. Photo: Steven Vance

Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue

By John Greenfield | May 6, 2022 | No Comments

Given it's status as our city's most popular cycling route, it's way past time for the city to turn the entire corridor into a bike-priority street.

Nick Parlingayan, who was killed on his bike by a hit-and-run driver Wednesday night at Milwaukee/Kilbourn. Photo: Facebook

Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn

By John Greenfield | May 5, 2022 | No Comments

The latest victim was barista Nick Parlingayan, 22, fatally struck Wednesday night by a driver who fled the scene.

Waiting for a light on a sidewalk-level bike lane in Vienna, which appears to have a seamless network of car-separated bikeways. Photo: John Greenfield

A tale of two cities: What cycling in Vienna and Budapest reminded me about Chicago

By John Greenfield | May 4, 2022 | No Comments

Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.

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