Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Walking

People riding bikes on Glenwood Avenue north of Devon Street in Rogers Park. Photo: John Greenfield

Consensus reached on plan to make Glenwood in Rogers Park safer by converting it to one-way

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 15, 2022 | No Comments

The plan to convert this half-mile stretch, part of the Glenwood-Greenview Greenway bike route connecting Uptown and Evanston, already had the blessing of the Chicago Department of Transportation.

Una ciclovía/calles abiertas en la Ciudad de México. Foto: John Greenfield

Una actualización sobre CDMX, un lugar innovador del transporte sostenible

By Ruth Rosas | Mar 11, 2022 | No Comments

Ya es hora de que el campo de la planificación urbana deje de omitir los éxitos de las ciudades como la Ciudad de México, para encontrar técnicas innovadoras para mejorar el ambiente transporte sostenible.

A ciclovía/open streets in Mexico City. Photo: John Greenfield

An update on Mexico City, an overlooked sustainable transportation innovator

By Ruth Rosas | Mar 10, 2022 | No Comments

It's way past time for the urban planning world to stop overlooking the many successes of Latin American cities like Mexico City to find innovative ways to improve walking, biking, and transit.

"Little girl, you should wear reflective safety gear so that grownups in cars won't kill you when you walk in the street at night because there are no sidewalks." Image: National Road Safety Foundation, Chicago Auto Show

Chicago Auto Show producers sponsor contest that produces awful victim-blaming PSAs

By John Greenfield | Mar 10, 2022 | No Comments

This year's Chicago Auto Show showcased absurdly dangerous vehicle designs. Here's a look at the traffic safety PSA contest the show's producer sponsored, which produced victim-blaming video clips.

Driver entrance to the Chicago Botanic Garden. Image: Google Maps

New Botanic Garden fee scheme discourages walk/bike/transit, encourages driving

By John Greenfield | Mar 7, 2022 | No Comments

For a supposedly environmental-minded organization to do that can only be described as hypocritical and perverse.

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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