A Bird’s-Eye View of the North/Damen/Milwaukee Makeover
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Check out these aerial photos Steven took this evening of the complete streets makeover of the Wicker Park intersection.
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Bike Boxes, Slip Lane Removal, and a Fat Crosswalk Come to Wicker Park Six-Way
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The changes make this hectic six-way safer, better organized, and more pleasant for the many people who pass through on foot and bike each day.
Folks on the Street Weigh in on CDOT’s Plan to Fix the Wicker Park “Crotch”
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To further check the community's pulse on these proposed changes, I dropped by the crossroads to buttonhole people during the evening rush.
Grand Avenue Will Be Widened Between Chicago Avenue and Pulaski Road
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The widening of Grand Avenue will encourage faster driving, but at least bicyclists are getting thrown a bone in the form of shared-lane markings.
Fullerton/Damen/Elston Makeover Is a Net Neutral From a Livable Streets Perspective
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The curb-protected bike lanes are a win, but the wide new section of Elston encourages speeding. It remains to be seen whether the street remix will result in a safer situation overall.
Photographic Proof That America Can Make Streets for People Instead of Cars
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Need some inspiration to make your city’s streets safer and more inviting? Here’s a good place to start: URB-I, a collective of urban designers based in São Paulo, has been collecting before and after images of street transformations using Google Street View’s time lapse feature. The stockpile has grown to include 1,000 places around the world, including […]
Actually, the Lincoln/Ashland/Belmont Remix Will Be a Major Improvement
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Last week a ward staffer provided me with a preview of plans for the Lincoln/Ashland/Belmont reconstruction project. From what I gathered from that conversation, the Chicago Department of Transportation was planning a relatively conservative redesign of one of the North Side’s most dangerous intersections. But at a public meeting about the initiative last week, I […]
CDOT Plans a (Conservative) Safety Overhaul of Belmont, Ashland and Lincoln
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The six-way intersection of Belmont, Ashland, and Lincoln in Lakeview is one of the most confusing and scariest intersections on the North Side, especially for pedestrians and bicyclists. The north and south legs of Lincoln don’t line up properly. The six-way junction is a massive expanse of asphalt, roughly 150 feet across at its widest […]
Change Is Afoot on the Country’s Most Important Street Design Committee
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Michael Andersen blogs for The Green Lane Project, a PeopleForBikes program that helps U.S. cities build better bike lanes to create low-stress streets. One year after some progressive civil engineers around the country feared a crackdown against new-fangled street and signal designs, the opposite seems to be taking place. The obscure but powerful National Committee on […]
Eyes on the Streets: New Bike Lanes and Pedestrian Facilities on Vincennes
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Vincennes Avenue, which runs southwest from the 69th Street Red Line to the city limits, is one of the bike-priority Spoke Routes identified in the City’s Streets for Cycling Plan 2020. Vincennes already had conventional bike lanes running from the train stop to 76th, and protected and buffered lanes from 84th to 103rd. Earlier this […]
Complete Streets Engineer and Intern Run Over on a Columbus Sidewalk
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In an extraordinarily sad irony, the engineer in charge of Columbus, Ohio’s complete streets program has been gravely injured in a car crash. His 21-year-old intern was killed. The pair were walking in downtown Columbus Friday when, according to witnesses, Terrance Trent, 61, ran a red light and smashed his pickup truck into a school […]