Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Infrastructure

One of the CTA's 12 electric buses operating on Chicago Avenue. Photo: Steven Vance

Nice: CTA gets $118M in operations funds, opportunity to apply for electrification cash

By John Greenfield | Mar 8, 2022 | No Comments

The operations funds will help address service gaps due to labor shortages. Plus federal grant programs were announced that the CTA can apply for to fund plans to electrify its bus fleet by 2040.

The Red Line's Argyle station is currently under construction. Photo: John Greenfield

CTA looks to commission 6 pieces of public art for stations as part of RPM Project

By Steven Field | Mar 4, 2022 | No Comments

The CTA has announced plans to add to its growing public art collection with six works scheduled for installation as part of the reconstruction of the Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn, and Bryn Mawr Red Line stations.

BMW driver fatally struck Gerardo Marciales, 41, as he crossed DLSD on a Divvy bike

By John Greenfield | Mar 3, 2022 | No Comments

Police say the motorist "instead of turning left according to the traffic signal, continued north," but he wasn't cited.

The cover of the zine. Image: Cori Lin, City Bureau

City Bureau zine seeks to educate Chicagoans about community benefit agreements

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

Bronzeville-based media lab City Bureau recently released a zine that seeks to educate Chicago residents on community benefit agreements.

The boarded up entrance to the Buena Avenue underpass, next to the Chicago Peace Garden and the sculpture "Peace and Justice," a monument to Daisaku Ikeda, founder of the Japanese Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai. Photo: John Greenfield

Closed underpasses, and opening minds about a radical redesign of DuSable LSD

By Michael Podgers | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

Impassible underpasses aren't just inconvenient. They also highlight the inconvenient truth that our addiction to cars is contributing to the existential threat of climate change.

The State/Lake 'L' station in the Chicago Loop. Photo: John Greenfield

50 groups ask Pritzker to focus federal funding on sustainable, equitable transportation

By John Greenfield | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

"You have a historic opportunity to change the status quo of transportation planning to build good zero emissions public transit systems and construct infrastructure for safe walking and biking."

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