Road diet, bike lanes finally implemented near deadly Logan/Western intersection
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Riding on Logan all the way from the east side of Milwaukee Avenue to Western Avenue in relative safety is "a truly liberating experience."
Congressional Maneuvering Delays Infrastructure Bill
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Congress was forced to delay a vote on a bill that would have reauthorized the nation’s major transportation programs last night, throwing the future of sustainable-transport advocates’ priorities into doubt.
At last! The city has inked a contract for Damen Line Green stop construction with Paschen
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Originally slated to open this year, the station probably won't be completed until at least late 2023. But, hey, better late than never.
Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 1
| | No Comments- Nearly 200 affordable housing units could be coming to west end of the Bloomingdale Trail (Block Club)
- New study: Affordable housing is rapidly disappearing on the North Side (Block Club)
- Details on judge’s decision that UP is under no obligation to provide service on 3 Metra lines (Railway Age)
- 4 people injured in crash at 87th and Ashland in Auburn Gresham (CBS)
- CTA temporarily stops Red Line lead paint removal in Uptown after “clouds of dust” escape containment area (Block Club)
- AARP Illinois bought an ad in the Sun-Times to publicize the Recyclery’s artistic pothole-filling project
- Cal’s Angels members are biking 1,000 miles Mt. Rushmore to Chicago to raise money for kids with cancer (KEVN)
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Courier proposes Neighborhood Greenway on Belle Plaine for ghost kitchen access
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A Streetsblog reader proposes a new greenway in the 47th ward
Black United Fund, Equiticity team up for a bike ride to promote cooperative economics
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“If we bike, walk, or ride public transportation, we can always attach economic development in the neighborhood.”
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, September 30
| | No Comments- Ald. Ray Lopez urges city clerk to abolish residential parking permits (Sun-Times)
- 17-year-old killed after crashing car into overpass pole, fire on Route 83 in Oak Brook (Tribune)
- Semi-rollover crash blocks WB lanes on I-90 near Marengo-Hampshire (WGN)
- 5 shot near Kinzie/Milwaukee, including bystander on a Divvy bike (ABC)
- With people driving downtown to avoid transit, ride-hail, parking garage business is recovering (Crain’s)
- Watch out for construction on the Skokie Valley Line bike path next month (The Chainlink)
- ATA helps out with a walkability assessment in Cairo, Illinois’ southernmost city
- Southwest Collective Community Bike Ride 10/2, 10 AM in West Lawn Park, 65th and Kildare
- Planning sessions for the Altenheim Line trail 10/7 (in N. Lawndale) and 10/14 (online)
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Illinois traffic deaths were at a 5-year high in 2020. Here’s how to address the problem.
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We must stop accepting death as the cost of mobility on our auto-dominated transportation system.
Driver runs red, killing woman, 52, waiting for the bus in Auburn Gresham, flees
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The victim, who residents said was waiting for a ride to work, was the 16th on-street Chicago pedestrian fatality this year.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, September 29
| | No Comments- Groundbreaking for OPC, including pedestrianization of Cornell, widening of Stony, DLSD (Block Club)
- CDOT website tracks the Jackson Park transportation changes, which will use $174M in state funds
- Despite calls for police chase reforms after 2020 death, there have been more chases this year (CBS)
- Hit-and-run driver killed woman, 52, waiting for bus, injured man, baby in car in Auburn Gresham (ABC)
- Man, 27, found dead on Clark/Division Red Line platform Tuesday morning (CBS)
- DePaul’s Joe Schwieterman discusses the Empire Builder derailment that took 3 lives (ABC)
- South Side Critical Mass meets this Friday 10/1, 5:45 PM at Nichols Park, 55th and Kimbark
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Disability rights group Access Living and others call for transit ambassadors on CTA
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A coalition of forty community groups and civic organizations in Chicago and suburban Cook County have given their support for the creation of a transit ambassador program for the CTA.
“Biking Where Black” study shows relationship between lack of bike lanes, heavy ticketing
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The report postulates that improved bicycle infrastructure could reduce citations and to some extent mitigate police overreach by reducing sidewalk riding.