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View from the new westbound bike lane. Photo: John Greenfield

Take a virtual bike ride on the new Logan Boulevard bike lanes near Western Avenue

By John Greenfield | Oct 4, 2021 | No Comments

Adding painted Jersey walls to the new Logan lanes would offer real, physical protection for cyclists. That would be an even better tribute to the people who died while biking there.

One of the new bike lanes next to the ghost bike memorial for Kevin Clark. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

Road diet, bike lanes finally implemented near deadly Logan/Western intersection

By Sharon Hoyer | Oct 3, 2021 | No Comments

Riding on Logan all the way from the east side of Milwaukee Avenue to Western Avenue in relative safety is "a truly liberating experience."

At last! The city has inked a contract for Damen Line Green stop construction with Paschen

By John Greenfield | Oct 1, 2021 | No Comments

Originally slated to open this year, the station probably won't be completed until at least late 2023. But, hey, better late than never.

Transit ambassadors on Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Photo: BART

Disability rights group Access Living and others call for transit ambassadors on CTA

By Courtney Cobbs | Sep 28, 2021 | No Comments

A coalition of forty community groups and civic organizations in Chicago and suburban Cook County have given their support for the creation of a transit ambassador program for the CTA.

A person with a bike in Chicago's Roseland community. In recent years the city has been building more bikeways on the Far South Side, but the density of bikeways is still much greater in most of the North Side. Photo: John Greenfield

“Biking Where Black” study shows relationship between lack of bike lanes, heavy ticketing

By Sharon Hoyer | Sep 28, 2021 | No Comments

The report postulates that improved bicycle infrastructure could reduce citations and to some extent mitigate police overreach by reducing sidewalk riding.

9 out 11 viaducts over cross streets have been demolished. Photo: CTA

Residents get a preview of the next phase of North Side Red Line reconstruction

By Igor Studenkov | Sep 27, 2021 | No Comments

Attendees got a sneak peek at the construction equipment that will be used to assemble the new elevated structure that will replace a Red/Purple ‘L’ Line embankment between Leland and Ardmore.

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