Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Infrastructure

Catching a bus from the 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line station to the Altgeld Gardens housing project. Photo: Jeff Zoline

Advocates: RTA must overcome “bureaucratic anxiety,” prescribe bold action to save transit

By John Greenfield | Feb 22, 2022 | No Comments

"Transformational ideas may be controversial, but that is not an excuse to avoid them," the letter states. "We need serious and specific proposals to maintain the foundational roles transit plays."

Podcast: John talks with Eben Weiss, aka Bike Snob NYC, about legalizing the Idaho stop

By John Greenfield | Feb 21, 2022 | No Comments

We also discussed why ultimately U.S. cities should be building citywide networks of connected, protected bikeways with logical traffic light timing, so Idaho stop laws become unnecessary.

Una persona pasando en bicicleta por la central eléctrica Crawford en abril de 2020. Foto: Mia Park

¿Cómo podemos hacer que la vida en el suroeste sea más segura, saludable y placentera?

By Ruth Rosas | Feb 18, 2022 | No Comments

Los defensores de la justicia ambiental están trabajando para un futuro con buenos empleos y comunidades seguras, saludables y transitables.

A person biking past the Crawford power plant site in April 2020. Photo: Mia Park

How can we make life on the Southwest Side safer, healthier, and more enjoyable?

By Ruth Rosas | Feb 18, 2022 | No Comments

On the Southwest Side, factories degrades the air quality and heavy truck traffic makes the streets more dangerous. Environment justice advocates are working for a future with good jobs, and safe, healthy, walkable communities.

Planners discussed tweaks to the Red Line Extension project at Supplemental EA hearing

By James Porter | Feb 16, 2022 | No Comments

The Supplemental EA discloses potential impacts from three project design changes that weren't identified in the 2016 Draft Environmental Impact Statement.

Sign and stencil at the northeast corner of Halted/Archer, looking north. The sidewalk railing has been reinstalled closer to the curb to provide more room on the sidewalk for biking. Photo: Twitter user @babygluckling.

CDOT replaced Halsted bike lane with sidewalk route. Many advocates aren’t lovin’ it.

By John Greenfield | Feb 16, 2022 | No Comments

There were many negative reactions to the news, including from Better Streets Chicago, which organized a protest over the bike lane removal. The city says more modifications are in the works.

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