Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Active Transportation Alliance

Active Trans May Launch a Petition Drive to Keep The 606 Open 24/7

By John Greenfield | Mar 14, 2016 | 10 Comments

[The Chicago Reader recently launched a new weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership will allow Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We’ll be syndicating a portion of the column on the day it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website […]

Active Trans Celebrates 30 Years With a New Commitment to Healthy Streets

By John Greenfield | Feb 25, 2016 | 1 Comment

For three decades, the Active Transportation Alliance (formerly the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation) has been advocating for better conditions for bicycling and, in recent years, walking and transit. They marked their 30th anniversary with a fundraiser on Monday at Germania Place, and more than 250 supporters turned out to celebrate the occasion. During the event the […]

How Quinn Staffer Sean O’Shea Blocked Chicago’s Protected Bike Lane Efforts

By John Greenfield | Dec 2, 2015 | 2 Comments

IDOT Finally Sees The Light, Stops Withholding Crash Data From the Public

By John Greenfield | Nov 3, 2015 | 1 Comment

Back in August, a transportation professional who asked not to be named told me the Illinois Department of Transportation had stopped fulfilling requests from nongovernmental entities for crash location data. This information is crucial for analyzing any transportation network — for example, we often rely on crash data for Streetsblog Chicago stories. I have since […]

Active Trans: Rahm Should Aim for 100 Miles of Bike Lanes Again, Not 50

By Steven Vance | Oct 14, 2015 | 13 Comments

Last week at a press event celebrating the installation of 103 miles of buffered and protected bike lanes, Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised to build 50 miles of new bike lanes, including PBLs, over the next four years. The Active Transportation Alliance’s new “Bikeways for All” campaign, launched on Monday, urges the mayor to double that goal. In […]

Active Trans Marks 30 Years With 5 Big Goals, New Sister Organization

By John Greenfield | Jul 15, 2015 | 3 Comments

Streetsblog Chicago is on vacation from July 13-17 and will resume publication of Today’s Headlines and daily articles on Monday, July 20. We’ll keep in touch this week via social media and occasional posts. The scrappy little advocacy group that was founded in 1985 as the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation is now the Active Transportation Alliance, […]

The South Shore Line Expects You to Wait Six Years for Bike Access

By Steven Vance | Jun 22, 2015 | 8 Comments

Update: NICTD responded to our request for comment after publication and we will post a follow up story on Tuesday. Eager to bring your bike on a South Shore Line train to visit Notre Dame University, commute from Northwest Indiana to Chicago, or take a spin around the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore? You may well be […]

Not Just Greasy Kid Stuff: Active Trans Hosting Family Biking Series

By John Greenfield | May 15, 2015 | No Comments

As dozens of my friends with young kids demonstrate, becoming a parent doesn’t mean you have to give up your car-free or car-lite lifestyle. An upcoming three-part series on family biking presented by the Active Transportation Alliance and Chicago Kidical Mass aims to provide families with the info and encouragement they need to keep pedaling through […]

Rauner’s IDOT Listening Tour Only Includes a Sprinkling of Cook County Stops

By Steven Vance | Apr 28, 2015 | 5 Comments

Cook County represents 41 percent of Illinois’ population yet only three of the 30 scheduled stops on the Illinois Department of Transportation’s upcoming listening tour regarding Governor Rauner’s proposed state budget will take place in the county: two in suburban Cook County and a single meeting in Chicago. Rauner has proposed a budget that slashes funding for […]

Active Trans Hopes to Create New Bike Commuters With City Cycling Classes

By John Greenfield | Apr 27, 2015 | 2 Comments

To help coax the key “Interested but Concerned” demographic to try urban bike commuting, the Active Transportation Alliance is launching a monthly series of City Cycling classes at its downtown headquarters, 9 West Hubbard. “To be honest, I wish something like this had existed back in 2006 when I moved to Chicago from Grand Rapids, […]

Active Trans Launches Campaign to Beef Up Illinois’ Safe Routes Programs

By John Greenfield | Apr 21, 2015 | No Comments

In the wake of new analysis that shows nearly five children are struck by drivers within a block of an Illinois school every day, the Active Transportation Alliance is spearheading a campaign to overhaul the state’s Safe Routes to School program. “We’re really hoping to highlight the program, and also emphasize the need to improve […]

What’s Going on With Alderman Reilly and the Kinzie Protected Bike Lanes

By Steven Vance | Apr 17, 2015 | 14 Comments

Alderman Brendan Reilly submitted an order to city council on Wednesday that would compel Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld to remove the Kinzie Street protected bike lane between Dearborn and the Chicago River because he says it conflicts with Wolf Point construction truck traffic. @LisaC1203 @activetrans That is correct, it’s a temporary relocation during construction […]

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