Is this the beginning of prioritizing buses on Chicago’s streets?
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Better Streets for Buses meetings have started, and ELPC calls for five bus rapid transit routes in five years.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 19
| | No Comments- Coverage of last night’s Ride of Silence honoring fallen cyclists (ABC, WGN)
- Block Club looks at potential bus priority streets from the city’s Better Streets for Buses initiative
- 4 injured in crash at Addison/Kimball in Irving Park after speeding driver runs red light (ABC)
- CTA bus driver involved in crash at Lawrence/Marine in Uptown Wednesday morning (ABC)
- Man overpowered woman early Sunday morning at Clark/Lake Blue platform, stole her purse (FOX)
- Paint-and-post treatment at the site where driver killed cyclist Gerardo Marciales is only semi-effective (Block Club)
- CDOT deputy commissioner Sean Wiedel discusses plans for Divvy e-bike charging stations (Smart Cities)
- Preservationists push rescue plan for endangered State Street skyscrapers (Crain’s)
- No, Howard Street is not the northernmost border of Chicago. Here’s what exists north of Howard (Chicago Mag)
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There Are Just Four Types of Drivers — And Ending Car Dependency Means Reaching Them All
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There are four types of drivers in U.S. communities, a new analysis argues, and transportation leaders need to adopt distinct strategies to influence each group’s behavior on the road.
Driver who killed Concepcion Lopez, 82, in West Ridge threw object over wall, was DUI tested
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Police inventories the object, which may have been alcohol or illegal drugs, and the motorist was given a blood alcohol content test, but he still has not been charged with a DUI.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 18
| | No Comments- World Economic Forum looks at how Chicagoland’s car-dependence negatively impacts social inclusion
- Raising the tax on ride-hail to fund the CTA is one campaign promise Lightfoot kept (WBEZ)
- CPD possibly thwarts CTA crime after man arrested, gun recovered near 87th Street Red Line stop (ABC)
- In response to Chicago bike death epidemic, National Law Review pointlessly recommends wearing “bright clothing”
- Oakbrook Terrace officials say IDOT and Oak Brook are to blame for red-light cameras coming down (Tribune)
- Austin teens are learning design skills while helping to plan the Chicago Avenue streetscape project (WTTW)
- Green Bay Road pedestrian bridge to connect Lake Bluff, North Chicago (Patch)
- Elmhurst hosts bike rides with first responders this Sunday (Tribune)
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NO SURPRISE: Feds Report Double-Digit Increase in Road Deaths in 2021
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Call it the forgotten pandemic: road fatalities surged by double-digit percentages, including a significant increase in deaths outside of cars, in 2021, according to a new report issued Tuesday by federal authorities.
Shared Mobility Action Agenda aims to make non-private-car modes handy for all by 2030
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There are many ways to screw up shared mobility. So hopefully the action agenda will focus on shared modes that actually decrease emissions, rather than exacerbate climate change.
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, March 17
| | No Comments- Controversial new ward map approved with 16 Black, 14 Latino, 1 Asian ward, plus wild gerrymandering (Block Club)
- More than 1,000 people filled the streets for Chicago abortion rights rally last weekend (Block Club)
- School bus driver fatally strikes 3-year-old boy in northwest-suburban Cary (ABC)
- Motorcyclist dies after collision with ambulance in Waukegan (NBC)
- Police: 2 officers injured after Jeep driver ran red light in Chicago Heights (Patch)
- Woman, 27, attacked and robbed Monday at 1:30 AM at Jackson Red Line station (CBS)
- ELPC launches petition calling on the CTA to pilot 5 BRT routes in the next five years
- Alderpeople fight for public restroom pilot: “This is something that benefits everybody” (Block Club)
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Report: Fair Transit South Cook pilot helped ridership recover from pandemic lows
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Cook County’s review of the first full year of the Fair Transit South Cook confirmed some of what Streetsblog Chicago’s earlier dive into Metra ridership numbers suggested.
Lightfoot banning teens from Millennium Park is the wrong public safety approach
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Instead of shutting youth out of public spaces, we need to be designing more public spaces around them, and investing in resources that will help them thrive.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 16
| | No Comments- Boy, 16, killed at The Bean during meetup; Lightfoot bans unaccompanied teens from park after 6 PM Thu-Sun (ABC)
- 2 killed in rollover accident on Eisenhower Expressway near Illinois Medical District (ABC)
- 1 dead after truck driver falls off Chinatown feeder ramp to Dan Ryan Expressway (ABC)
- Police: 2 hospitalized after school bus driver has medical emergency on DLSD, leading to pileup (ABC)
- Chicago firefighters rescue 2 from Metra tracks in separate incidents (CBS)
- CPD shared a photo of SUV whose driver seriously injured a bike rider in Portage Park (Fox)
- Buick sedan driver struck and injured bike rider, 62, at Wilson/Lincoln in Lincoln Square (Block Club)
- West Loop’s Madison Street safety plan would add raised intersections, but no bikeways (Block Club)
- Lifelong CTA rider: “I invite some of their executives to ride their buses and trains for a week or two” (Tribune)
- Neighbors opposed Bally’s casino ped bridge at Thursday meeting, Bally’s chair said they’d scrap that idea (Tribune)
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Pace field-tests leased e-bus, will probably cancel redundant Pace/Metra PlusBus Pass
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The suburban bus system is already using a leased electric bus to do some field-testing. It also plans to eliminate the now-superfluous PlusBus Pass, which allows Metra monthly pass holders to ride Pace buses for an extra $30 a month.