Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Bus Transit

Waiting for a light on a sidewalk-level bike lane in Vienna, which appears to have a seamless network of car-separated bikeways. Photo: John Greenfield

A tale of two cities: What cycling in Vienna and Budapest reminded me about Chicago

By John Greenfield | May 4, 2022 | No Comments

Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.

ATA's staff and board at the reception. Photo: John Greenfield

Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception

By John Greenfield | May 3, 2022 | No Comments

The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.

A CTA bus driver on Inner Lake Shore Drive. Photo: John Greenfield

How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?

By John Greenfield | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?

The 320-car garage under construction. Photo: BuildingUpChicago.com

The U. of C. has made progress in reducing car use. So why is it building a giant garage?

By Courtney Cobbs | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

The University of Chicago has made progress on decreasing driving. Why is it building a new parking garage while also committing to reducing transportation-related greenhouse emissions?

The Lake/Ashland 'L' station. Is it really necessary to have a redundant bus directly below the Lake Street branch? Roger Romanelli says yes. Photo: Jeff Zoline.

Parallel lies: Romanelli claims Lake St. is the only ‘L’ branch with no redundant bus line

By John Greenfield | Apr 26, 2022 | No Comments

To justify spending billions to rebuild the Lake Street 'L' to facilitate driving, he falsely claimed it's "the only rail line that doesn’t have a corresponding bus service within an eighth of a mile."

The Montrose Blue Line station. Photo: John Greenfield

Data analysis found CTA has only been running about half its scheduled Blue Line runs

By John Greenfield | Apr 25, 2022 | No Comments

A mobile developer found that has been fairly consistently running roughly 52 percent of its scheduled Blue Line service, with particularly bad gaps at night and on weekends.

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