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Can Transportation Options Energize Englewood?

By John Greenfield | Apr 22, 2013 | 15 Comments

[This article also appears in Checkerboard City, John Greenfield’s weekly column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] Most Chicagoans associate Englewood with poverty and crime, but local advocates and activists see it as a neighborhood with untapped potential, with excellent access to public transportation being one of the keys to its […]

CTA Officials Share Details of the Plan for Gold-Standard BRT on Ashland

By John Greenfield | Apr 19, 2013 | 51 Comments

It was exciting to wake up to the news that the CTA and Chicago Department of Transportation are planning to build center-running bus rapid transit with travel lane removals, since this is the most efficient and pedestrian-friendly of the four layouts they considered. Both Ashland and Western were possibilities for the route. They have decided […]

New Grant Will Help Chicago Spread the Word About the Benefits of BRT

By John Greenfield | Apr 10, 2013 | 17 Comments

The toughest part of the city’s effort to create bus rapid transit in the downtown East-West Transit and the Western/Ashland BRT corridors will be convincing Chicagoans that it’s a good idea to remove travel lanes on major streets to make room for dedicated bus lanes. Help arrived today in the form of a $1.2 million […]

Secrets of the Pedway: Behind the Scenes With CDOT Planner Susan Mea

By Keith Griffith | Mar 26, 2013 | 2 Comments

Keith Griffith is a Chicago-based freelance writer and arts critic. The Chicago Pedway, a warren of corridors connecting over 50 downtown buildings with Metra and CTA stations, can be baffling to navigate. But with dozens of private owners controlling different sections, administering the system might be an even bigger challenge. Susan Mea, a veteran planning […]

Picturing Safer Streets: The Better Blocks Initiative

By John Greenfield | Mar 25, 2013 | 2 Comments

[This piece also appears in Checkerboard City, John’s weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] Underserved neighborhoods are called that for a reason. They generally don’t receive their fair share of city services, and they tend to have less green space, worse conditions for walking and biking, and higher […]

Strap This Device to Your Bike and Measure the Air Quality of Your Ride

By Steven Vance | Mar 22, 2013 | 14 Comments

One aspect people like about the Chicago Crash Browser is looking up crashes along the route they bike to see if there are areas that should be avoided. What if you could also avoid routes that have high pollution, are especially noisy, or lack good street lighting? A group from the School of the Art […]

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