Eyes on the Street: Chicago, Bike Grid Now’s Jamapalooza takes over the Loop
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now led Jamapalooza, a massive group ride to demonstrate for a citywide network of bike-priority streets.
Letter from advocacy groups calls for protected bike lanes on Lincoln Ave. in Lincoln Square
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Multiple advocacy groups made that argument once again with an open letter to local decision-makers calling on them to include physically-protected bike lanes along as part of the upcoming Lincoln Avenue Streetscape and Plaza project
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 22
| | No Comments- Steven Vance relaunches Move Chicago transpo platform he, Yonah Freemark and Lynda Lopez created for 2019 election
- Council approves $15M for family of Guadalupe Francisco-Martinez, 37, bystander killed in police chase (Chicago Journal)
- Man, 46, fatally struck while trying to walk across 8-lane road in Schererville, IN (NWI Times)
- 3 injured, including 2 teens, in head-on hit-and-run car crash at 18th/Carpenter in Gresham (ABC)
- Neighbors protest plan for new car wash in Chatham, asking for a sit-down restaurant instead (Block Club)
- Pritzker calls on state senator Emil Jones III to resign after being charged with accepting bribes from a RLC vendor (Sun-Times)
- CDOT handed out more free bikes and gear yesterday in East Garfield Park (CBS)
- “Urban Bikers’ Tips and Tricks” author Dave Glowacz talks with Reader’s Joravsky about dangers to Chicago cyclists
- Metra to offer extra service for Chicago Half Marathon on Sunday
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now plans Jamapalooza citywide bicycle meetup for World Car Free Day
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now is organizing a Bike Bus convergence on the Loop in observance of World Car Free Day, September 22nd.
Why alderpersons should vote no on Reilly’s ordinance to ban pedicabs from Navy Pier
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Replacing car trips with other modes is a net win for traffic safety, congestion, and air quality, so pedicab bans are misguided.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday
| | No Comments- ATA discusses how last week’s City Council hearing on CTA, ghosted by its president, highlighted transit problems
- Armitage in Logan square will be repaved, including curb extensions at Rockwell, Point, and Francisco (Block Club)
- Bryn Mawr temporary station wins People’s Choice Award from the American Institute of Architects (Railway Age)
- 37th annual North Shore Century bicycle ride takes place on banner Sunday (Evanston Review)
- Chicago Magazine’s Ted McClellan launches a project to highlight something good in every Chicago community area
- Equiticity’s Magic of Music ride series highlights “Afro Latinx + Reggaeton” music Friday 5:30 PM in Garfield Park
- Truman College’s Uptown bike ride on Saturday has goal of promoting more interaction between college and neighbors (Block Club)
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Streetsblog Board Member Lands Major Job with Biden White House
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Gabe Klein, a former Chicago and D.C. transportation agency leader — and a Streetsblog NYC and USA board member — has been chosen by “Electric” Joe Biden to head the administration’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation.
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, September 20
| | No Comments- Former CDOT chief Gabe Klein will head Biden’s $7.5B program to build out country’s EV charging network (Streetsblog USA)
- New 43rd Ward alder Timmy Knudsen met with residents at Oz Park. Will he support or oppose Dickens Greenway? (Block Club)
- Bicyclist randomly attacked Sunday evening on Lakefront Trail near river, suffered black eye, scrapes and concussion
- The Bronzeville Trail Task Force has raised $100K for plan to convert abandoned Kenwood CTA tracks into trail (Block Club)
- Railway Age looks at Chicagoland’s status as the nation’s freight and passenger rail hub
- The Rat Patrol, a longtime Chicago “freak bike” crew, gets its closeup in Block Club
- Chicago Critical Mass’ “50th anniversary” (in reality the 25th anniversary of monthly rides) is Friday 9/30, 5:30 PM in Daley Plaza
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Visualizing how current Chicago infrastructure fails people walking and biking
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Changing the status quo will take political courage, and it might inconvenience some drivers, but it will definitely save lives.
UIC’s Urban Transportation Center starts its fall series with a seminar on transit inequity
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Speakers included Ellen Partridge from the Shared-Use Mobility Center, Audrey Wenninkfrom the Metropolitan Planning Council, and Rochelle Jacksonfrom the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, September 19
| | No Comments- $15M settlement for family of Guadalupe Francisco-Martinez, 37, killed by police pursuing another driver in 2020 (Sun-Times)
- Teen ran red at 51st/State in Fuller Park and struck another, killing woman, 46, and critically injuring woman, 45 (ABC)
- 3 injured, including 2 officers, after police collide with other vehicles, hit light pole in grand crossing (ABC)
- RTA does outreach to transit riders at community events, publishes survey to hear from residents on future of transit
- Letter calls for express ‘L’ runs, more lines in expressway medians, Metra turnstiles (Tribune)
- After protest of plans to repave Belmont in Lakeview w/o robust bike lanes, 44th Ward announced a delay to the project
- Reagan historian and In these Times president Rick Perlstein has a change of heart on speed cameras
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“Ask CTA” lets customers bend the ears of managers at stations, with some hiccups
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Over the last two weeks, the CTA has held a series of Ask CTA events at various 'L' stations. Hopefully the agency will take customers' critiques to heart.