Dashed bike lanes: Better than nothing, or total trash?
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Are they a pragmatic, better-than-nothing approach on streets where stripping parking is seen as a nonstarter. Or are they a depressing capitulation to car culture?
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Policy & Planning
Murder on Red Line underscores urgent need for holistic CTA violence prevention solutions
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This latest tragedy highlights the urgent need for local leaders to think outside the policing box and take constructive action to keep transit riders and workers safe.
Transit experts, advocates dismiss Romanelli’s car-centric $2B “transit overhaul” proposal
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There's essentially zero support for Romanelli's absurdly car-centric proposal people who actually know what they're talking about when it comes to transportation.
Lincolnwood plans to build the Pratt Boulevard bike-ped bridge Streetsblog proposed
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The new span will bisect the one-mile gap in bridges over the North Shore Channel by the eponymous trail.
Loop pedestrian, transit counts slowly returning to normal, but parking is still way up
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The announcement at the top of this month’s recovery report from the Chicago Loop Alliance, which tracks pedestrian levels, transportation use and office and hotel occupancy, is a gradual return of life downtown. The Loop Alliance’s eighteen pedestrian counters situated along State Street from Wacker to Ida B. Wells logged over one million people per […]
Chicago transportation advocates weigh in on car-centric federal infrastructure bill
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The increased investment in walking, biking, and transit is great, but these investments are at risk of being outweighed by an increase in roadway expansion.