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The South Shore Slow Street loop. Photo: CDOT

Chicago’s newest Slow Street is a 0.6-mile loop in South Shore

By John Greenfield | Jun 26, 2020 | No Comments

This loop is perfect for local residents who'd like to get physical activity by walking or jogging laps, and a good set-up for children and families to go on bike rides.

Biagi, right, with 1st Ward alderman Daniel LaSpata and Ben Helphand, president of Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, at the installation of the Bloomingdale alternative Slow Street route earlier this month. Photo via Helphand

Did Chicago miss the chance to make streets less car-centric? CDOT’s Gia Biagi responds

By John Greenfield | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

During an interview with Streetsblog, the CDOT chief also discussed bike lane restriping, pandemic bus lanes, and how she's settling into life at the department.

Ideally every residential street would have traffic calming. Photo: John Greenfield

Designing self-policing streets, and other mobility justice strategies

By Courtney Cobbs | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

We should be redesigning our transportation system to reduce the chances of Black and Brown residents interacting with law enforcement, and to promote transportation equity.

A rear-door fare card reader. Photo: CTA

CTA planned to install rear-door card readers on entire bus fleet, only did a few dozen

By John Greenfield | Jun 23, 2020 | No Comments

The plan to add rear-door Ventra readers to all 1,800-plus buses would have opened the door to universal all-door boarding. But the initiative never got off the ground.

The city-owned truck at the crash site. Photo via Twitter user @allweeksend

Driver of CDOT-owned truck critically injured female cyclist, 31, at Belmont/Milwaukee

By John Greenfield | Jun 23, 2020 | No Comments

The victim was at least the seventh female or gender-nonconforming cyclist critically injured or killed by a right-turning trucker in Chicago since 2016.

People flock to the reopened Bloomingdale while maintaining social distance

By Ariel Parrella-Aureli | Jun 22, 2020 | No Comments

The 606 is officially open now, but neighbors say thing aren't that different than last week, when many people were already using it illegally.

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