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Ghost bikes for Tyler Fabeck and Kevin Clark at Logan/Western. It's clear we can't wait any longer for safety improvements here. Photos: Andrew Bedno, Courtney Cobbs

Logan Square Preservation tries to block protected lane installation, ATA rallies support

By John Greenfield | Sep 3, 2021 | No Comments

The leader of the influential community group is trying to obstruct the safety upgrade due to a personal concern, but the Active Transportation Alliance is asking residents to voice support.

There are ways to cope with the parking deal, like when new diagonal spaces were created on side streets to allow for the construction of protected bike lanes on Milwaukee Avenue in River West. But we shouldn't have to. Image: Google Maps

It’s time for Chicago to rid itself of the parasitic parking meter contract

By Michael Podgers | Sep 1, 2021 | No Comments

While it's possible to cope with the horrible parking deal through design and policy, we really need to abolish it altogether.

Treatments to the Logan/Western intersection. Image: CDOT

After 2 cyclist deaths, Logan/Western is finally getting road diet, protected lanes

By John Greenfield | Sep 1, 2021 | No Comments

It's great that these needed improvements are coming to Logan/Western at last, but tragic that they weren't done before two young men lost their lives.

The Millennium Park bike station, now called Hub 312. Photo: Hub 312

Millennium Park bike station reopens under new name and management

By Igor Studenkov | Aug 31, 2021 | No Comments

Now called Hub 312, it's run by Shift Transit, a Chicago-based mobility operations company founded by Eddy Inlow, who served as the first general manager for the Divvy bike-share program.

Chicago should avoid future school bussing crises by making CTA free for kids

By John Greenfield | Aug 31, 2021 | No Comments

By encouraging families to send their children to school by transit rather than driving them there, we'd also get a safer, healthier, and more efficient city.

Lake Street jive: NBC amplifies Romanelli’s scheme to use transit funds for a trucking issue

By John Greenfield | Aug 30, 2021 | No Comments

In reality Romanelli's proposal to rebuild the tracks to make driving easier is a road project. As such, he should be pursuing road funding for it, not transit money.

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