Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Policy & Planning

The boarded up entrance to the Buena Avenue underpass, next to the Chicago Peace Garden and the sculpture "Peace and Justice," a monument to Daisaku Ikeda, founder of the Japanese Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai. Photo: John Greenfield

Closed underpasses, and opening minds about a radical redesign of DuSable LSD

By Michael Podgers | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

Impassible underpasses aren't just inconvenient. They also highlight the inconvenient truth that our addiction to cars is contributing to the existential threat of climate change.

The State/Lake 'L' station in the Chicago Loop. Photo: John Greenfield

50 groups ask Pritzker to focus federal funding on sustainable, equitable transportation

By John Greenfield | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

"You have a historic opportunity to change the status quo of transportation planning to build good zero emissions public transit systems and construct infrastructure for safe walking and biking."

Unlocking the new gray Divvy e-bikes with a key fob by placing the fob under the LCD screen. Photo: Divvy

We asked CDOT a question about Divvy fobs, and they didn’t just fob us off

By John Greenfield | Mar 1, 2022 | No Comments

It turns out that Divvy members can unlock electric bike-share cycles with their plastic key fobs, even if they're not parked at traditional docking stations.

The Lincoln Hub, aka the Polka Dot Spot, as it appeared on Sunday. Photo: John Greenfield

Polka Dot Spot and Bel/Ash/Lin slated to get permanent infrastructure this year

By John Greenfield | Mar 1, 2022 | No Comments

Officials promised that after the designs proved successful, they would be upgraded with permanent concrete infrastructure. Several years later, that's finally supposed to happen.

Photos, clockwise: Jeff Zoline, Mary Wisniewski, John Greenfield, John Grenfield

Can we humanely improve conditions on the ‘L’? Here’s what’s happening in SF, NYC

By Mary Wisniewski | Feb 25, 2022 | No Comments

Now is not the time for the nation’s second-largest public transit system to go backwards, with conditions that scare people away people from using buses and trains.

Curb-protected lanes could be installed on Halsted between 78th and 80th.

Auburn Gresham streetscape plan includes short stretch of curb-protected bike lanes

By Mia Park | Feb 25, 2022 | No Comments

The streetscape project on 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, including a possible curb-protected bike lane treatment on a couple blocks of Halsted.

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