Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Rail Transit

Chicago Anodizing, one of the businesses that discussed Lake Street trucking issues at Tuesday's meeting. Image: Google Maps

CDOT throws Romanelli a bone, promises to look into warning signs for Lake St. tracks

By Igor Studenkov | Sep 4, 2021 | No Comments

At a meeting last week, CDOT staffers committed to exploring the idea of warning signs, but ignored Romanelli's call to spend $1.8B rebuilding the tracks.

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.

The California Pink Line Stop is a key site for Elevated Chicago’s Equitable Transit Oriented Development efforts.

Bringing TOD to South, West sides will require more resources, less red tape

By Richard Day | Aug 26, 2021 | No Comments

While our city's TOD ordinance has spurred more transit-friendly development in wealthy and gentrifying neighborhoods, it has done relatively little to encourage investment in parts of the city that need it the most.

Police at the Garfield Red Line station on Thursday. Image: CBS Chicago

Murder on Red Line underscores urgent need for holistic CTA violence prevention solutions

By John Greenfield | Aug 20, 2021 | No Comments

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.

A Sundays on State event. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Loop pedestrian, transit counts slowly returning to normal, but parking is still way up

By Sharon Hoyer | Aug 16, 2021 | No Comments

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 […]

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