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Could the Strava App Provide the Biking and Walking Data Cities Crave?

By Tanya Snyder | May 2, 2014 | No Comments

Strava may be making the leap from feel-good gadget for hard core exercise buffs to serious planning tool for cities looking to improve active transportation. Strava is a mobile app that runners and cyclists use to record their activities, track their progress, and see their stats and personal records. Its website shows a bunch of young, […]

Catching Hit-and-Run Drivers With Amber Alerts

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 26, 2014 | No Comments

A Portland woman whose son was killed by a drunk hit-and-run driver has proposed a new method to apprehend motorists who flee the scene of a deadly collision. She hopes to bring an Amber Alert-like notification system to Portland to help nab the bad guys. The proposal is based on a system that’s already up […]

Divvy Releases Trove of Bike-Share Trip Data

By Steven Vance | Feb 20, 2014 | 19 Comments

Last week CDOT released data for all Divvy trips taken by members and 24-hour pass holders in 2013, and the agency is looking for the public’s help in uncovering any patterns. The data includes the station where the trip began, the station where it ended, start time, end time, and whether the user had a […]

Divvy Data From the First Weekend and Beyond

By Steven Vance | Jul 3, 2013 | 12 Comments

In its first weekend of operation, Divvy bike-share saw 4,123 trips. Annual members accounted for 78 percent of the trips from Friday to Sunday, with the rest coming from people who purchased 24-hour passes (which cost $7). The five most popular starting stations were all downtown and near the lakefront and coincided with the five most […]

CTA to Reduce Fees for Ventra Debit Card

By Steven Vance | May 24, 2013 | 6 Comments

The Chicago Transit Authority announced this morning that some of the fees associated with using the optional debit account on a Ventra transit card will be eliminated or reduced. There were never fees associated with using Ventra to ride transit. But there are fees associated with the Ventra-linked retail debit account that card holders can […]

Ventra Will Be Anything But a Smooth “Retail Experience”

By Lynn Stevens | Mar 28, 2013 | 36 Comments

Editor’s note: Streetsblog accepts guest posts with viewpoints different than our own. Lynn Stevens is an urban planner, blogger at Peopling Places, and long-time neighborhood booster for Logan Square where she’s been an active participant in Bike/Walk Logan Square, the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, the Logan Square Corridor Development Initiative, and the (now defunct) Zoning Advisory […]

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