Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about State Policy

An aerial view of DuSable Lake Shore Drive, looking south from Diversey Avenue towards the Loop. Photo: Steven Vance

The NDLSD planning process is an opportunity to create a better future. Will IDOT do so?

By Michael Podgers | Apr 19, 2022 | No Comments

"We’re really at a crucial point in the history of humanity when we can make a real bold decision to have a better future. We should seize the moment.”

Don’t pander to drivers with gas tax holidays and giveaways. Help them drive less instead.

By John Greenfield | Mar 25, 2022 | No Comments

Let's see politicians take bold actions to make walking, transit, and biking practical and attractive alternatives to paying more at the pump, instead of the current "Gas-bagging."

The State/Lake 'L' station and DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Photos: John Greenfield

The great motor divide: How our obsession with cars has driven us apart

By Colin Anderson | Mar 22, 2022 | No Comments

Transportation by private car fails the city socially, while transit’s built-in opportunities for contact and cooperation are tools we desperately need to leverage in order to learn how to live together again.

The Kennedy Expressway. Photo: John Greenfield

Congressional reps to JB: Road expansion won’t solve traffic jams, will make inequities worse

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 16, 2022 | No Comments

"Highway expansion fails to achieve long-term congestion relief but instead increases pollution and further isolates people who can’t afford or aren’t physically able to drive."

BMW driver fatally struck Gerardo Marciales, 41, as he crossed DLSD on a Divvy bike

By John Greenfield | Mar 3, 2022 | No Comments

Police say the motorist "instead of turning left according to the traffic signal, continued north," but he wasn't cited.

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.

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