Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Walking

The Millennium Park bike station, now called Hub 312. Photo: Hub 312

Millennium Park bike station reopens under new name and management

By Igor Studenkov | Aug 31, 2021 | No Comments

Now called Hub 312, it's run by Shift Transit, a Chicago-based mobility operations company founded by Eddy Inlow, who served as the first general manager for the Divvy bike-share program.

View of the underbridge path from the Irving Park Road vehicular bridge. Photo: CDOT

Huzzah! Opening of new underbridge completes 1.5-mile, car-free 312 RiverRun route

By John Greenfield | Aug 27, 2021 | No Comments

The long-awaited bike-pedestrian underbridge along the Chicago River below Irving Park Road opened today.

CDOT recently installed non-protected bike lanes on North Avenue, an IDOT-controlled street, but it's still not a safe or comfortable place to ride. Photo: Alyssa Iovanelli

New Illinois legislation is a step forward in reducing vulnerable road user deaths

By Courtney Cobbs | Aug 25, 2021 | No Comments

The legislation requires IDOT to conduct a traffic study following "the occurrence of any [crash] involving a pedestrian fatality that occurs at an intersection of a state highway."

Sharrows were installed on the bridge late Wednesday afternoon. Photo: Josh Koonce

No, the new Montrose bridge over Kennedy doesn’t have bike lanes, isn’t getting them

By John Greenfield | Aug 25, 2021 | No Comments

In reality, people riding bikes on the new Montrose bridge aren't getting their own dedicated lane at all, let alone a protected one.

Looking east towards the bridge site from McCormick Boulevard. Photo: Jeff Zoline

Lincolnwood plans to build the Pratt Boulevard bike-ped bridge Streetsblog proposed

By John Greenfield | Aug 17, 2021 | No Comments

The new span will bisect the one-mile gap in bridges over the North Shore Channel by the eponymous trail.

Sophie Elizabeth Allen. Image: WRAL Orlando

Hit-and-run driver killed cancer survivor Sophie Elizabeth Allen, 27, near Wrigley Field

By John Greenfield | Aug 17, 2021 | No Comments

Sadly, Allen won't have the opportunity to enjoy the rest of the life she fought so hard for, due to the recklessness and cowardice of a driver who didn't even have the decency to take responsibility for his actions.

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