Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about County Policy

Here's where you can expect horrible traffic congestion and lots of noxious exhaust emissions on Thursday morning in Chicago and suburban Cook County. Image: John Greenfield via Google Maps

Mapped: Here’s where Willie Wilson will be creating traffic jams and smog on Thursday

By John Greenfield | Mar 22, 2022 | No Comments

It's good that free stuff is being concentrated in communities that have the most economic need but the negative impacts of congestion, pollution, and increased policing will also be concentrated in those communities.

Gas giveaways harm people. We shouldn’t let rich politicians like Willie Wilson do them.

By John Greenfield | Mar 21, 2022 | No Comments

Gas giveaways don't just benefit some residents while ignoring others. They negatively impact vulnerable people by slowing down buses and creating more emissions.

Driver entrance to the Chicago Botanic Garden. Image: Google Maps

New Botanic Garden fee scheme discourages walk/bike/transit, encourages driving

By John Greenfield | Mar 7, 2022 | No Comments

For a supposedly environmental-minded organization to do that can only be described as hypocritical and perverse.

While the bike lanes will calm traffic and help organize the street mid-block, the road will balloon to five lanes for drivers at stoplight intersections.

Skokie’s Crawford bike lanes, passing by 5-lane intersections, won’t be low-stress

By Courtney Cobbs | Feb 24, 2022 | No Comments

Skokie aims to be more appealing for cyclists. But a proposed redesign of Crawford Avenue misses the mark in terms of a design that will meaningfully grow the number of people traveling by bike.

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."

A Pace paratransit bus in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Pace teams up with Uber to launch paratransit expansion in DuPage County

By Igor Studenkov | Feb 9, 2022 | No Comments

Pace board members argued that using ride-hail to fill in the gaps in paratransit service will complement, not cannibalize, existing service.

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