STEAL THIS IDEA: Canadian City Passes Next-Gen Parking Reform
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A small Canadian city just passed a package of progressive bike and car parking reforms rarely seen in a single North American community.
Columbus Park road diet improves safety, CDOT staffers ridicule Block Club coverage
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In reality plenty of people are benefitting from the project. And emails show CDOT agreed with us that Block Club's coverage, which asserted that the road diet is "causing traffic jams" despite the data, was absurd.
Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 9
| | No Comments- ATA: Chicago is way behind peer cities in improving bus service. Here’s how to speed things up
- Days after driver killed man 33, on sidewalk in IMD, motorist injures 2 women on sidewalk in River North (ABC)
- Hit-and-run SUV driver critical injures woman, 28, on foot at 47th/Arthington in North Lawndale (ABC)
- Contrary to ABC headline, car owners don’t actually have to pay camera tickets racked up by car thieves
- Daily Herald bike columnist Ralph Banasiak heralds the start of peak biking season
- Here’s ATA’s writeup of its recent awards reception honoring Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller
- Men Run Deez Streets encourages more Black men to get into running (Block Club)
- Where are the four northeast, northwest, southwest, and southeast corners of Chicago?
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Reckless driver runs red in Illinois Medical District, strikes car, kills man, 33, on sidewalk
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The victim was the sixth pedestrian fatality on Chicago streets this year.
Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue
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Given it's status as our city's most popular cycling route, it's way past time for the city to turn the entire corridor into a bike-priority street.
Today’s Headlines for Friday, May 6
| | No Comments- More coverage of the Nick Parlingayan hit-and-run bike fatality case (Block Club, ABC, Sun-Times, Tribune)
- Driver hits another car in Illinois Medical District, fatally strikes pedestrian, and crashes into building (ABC)
- Motorist dies after crashing through construction closure Kennedy near O’Hare, striking truck (ABC)
- CTA will repair 28 stations this year as part of its “Refresh & Renew” program (Railway Age)
- Winning casino proposal on old Tribune Freedom Center site includes pedestrian bridge (NBC)
- Real estate firm: It should be easy to lease vacant Boeing HQ due to Metra proximity (Tribune)
- What’s up with the massive clouds of midges on the Lakefront Trail? (WTTW)
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Divvy hopes new charging stations will reduce VMT needed to maintain the fleet
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The Divvy system recently debuted charging stations for electric Divvys. Read more to find out where the first charging stations are located.
Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn
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The latest victim was barista Nick Parlingayan, 22, fatally struck Wednesday night by a driver who fled the scene.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 5
| | No Comments- Hit-and-run driver killed Nick Parlingayan, 22, on bike at Milwaukee/Kilbourn in Irving Park (Sun-Times)
- A trucker killed school counselor Carla Aiello, 37, on her bike at that intersection in November 2019
- Hit-and-run driver killed male pedestrian, 35, this morning at 24th St./Cicero in west-suburban Cicero (ABC)
- 5 people injured in CTA bus crash with 3 car drivers around 7:30 this morning on DLSD near 47th (Fox)
- After bartender Victor Ortiz was injured in a Divvy bike crash, community is rallying to help him (Block Club)
- Man, teen charged with robbing man at knifepoint at Roosevelt stop, 4th CTA attack in less than a week (ABC, NBC)
- Construction for new Damen Green Line station finally begins Monday 5/16 (Ald. Burnett)
- Buttigieg joins local officials to hail new Joliet transit hub for Pace, Metra and Amtrak (Tribune)
- Harvey’s 147th Street Metra station to begin renovations next week (Fox)
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UCLA study looked at Chicago cycling data to determine best practices for reallocating road space (Anderson Review)
- New Metra paint scheme features Chicago flag-inspired design and city skyline image (Trains.com)
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A tale of two cities: What cycling in Vienna and Budapest reminded me about Chicago
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Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 4
| | No Comments- Preckwinkle, other Cook County leaders call on CTA, Metra to combine fare systems (Block Club)
- 4 people shot on Ida B. Wells Dr. in Loop, including woman crossing the street on foot (ABC)
- 2 teens charged with robbing, attacking former “Wild Chicago” host Will Clinger at Addison stop (Fox)
- John rode the Red and Blue lines from 5 PM to 5 AM to get a better sense of nighttime conditions (Newcity)
- Sigcho-Lopez: El Paseo trail is on hold due to concerns about pollution, truck traffic, and gentrification (Block Club)
- Several bikeways are planned for Elmhurst, but none of the projects are on north side of town (Patch)
- More features added to Pullman Railroad Days, May 14-15 at Pullman National Monument (Trains.com)
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Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception
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The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.