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The ComEd truck, the mother's bicycle, the father's bike, the child seat, and the Mondelez truck. Photo: John Greenfield

Lily Grace Shambrook, 3, killed by trucker, is 2nd recent child fatality on/near Leland

By John Greenfield | Jun 9, 2022 | No Comments

Details are still emerging from a truck-bike crash that reportedly took the life of a female toddler riding on the back of her mother's bicycle this morning at Leland and Winthrop avenues in Uptown.

Pickups and SUVs are driving the pedestrian death epidemic. But the tide may be turning.

By Mary Wisniewski | Jun 8, 2022 | No Comments

While big vehicles are safer for people on the inside, they're more deadly for those on the outside. But there's a movement to require safer automobile designs and create disincentives to owning oversized vehicles.

The Pershing/Albany intersection in Brighton Park, looking east. Image: Google Maps

Hit-and-run driver struck and injured man, 54, on bike in Brighton Park, left plate behind

By John Greenfield | Jun 8, 2022 | No Comments

The crash report says police recovered the license plate. Hopefully that, plus any available surveillance camera footage, will help bring the driver to justice.

The apparent aftermath of a crash Friday afternoon on DuSable Lake Shore Drive just south of Bryn Mawr Avenue, with a car ending up a few feet from the Lakefront Trail. Photo: Courtney Cobbs

Illinois lawmakers OK more expressway, DLSD cams, fail to legalize speed cams on highways

By John Greenfield | Jun 7, 2022 | No Comments

Illinois lawmakers could have addressed the crash epidemic by legalizing speed cameras on expressways. Instead they took the politically easier step of cracking down on gun violence, without addressing traffic violence.

Raphael "Rafi" Cardenas. Photo: GoFundMe

SUV driver killed Raphael “Rafi” Cardenas as he rode a scooter in Lincoln Square

By John Greenfield | Jun 5, 2022 | No Comments

No Parking signs at intersections are important because the lack of parked cars near the crosswalk "daylights" the intersection.

Image from the Collected Communities Ordinance fact sheet from Elevated Chicago

Chicago’s proposed Equitable TOD ordinance would fight segregation and car-depedency

By John Greenfield | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

The Lori Lightfoot administration hopes to spur the development of more affordable, parking-lite housing near transit with the proposed "Connected Communities Ordinance."

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