Troubling: Loop Alliance report shows short-term Loop parking is skyrocketing
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Encouraging commuters and visitors to the Loop to bike or take public transportation needs to be a top priority.
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about COVID-19
A bittersweet look back at 12 months of free Metra Union Pacific line rides
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Union Pacific's refusal to collect fares during COVID cost Metra some $1M a month, but it opened up new options for affordable – or free – transit exploration.
The Active Transportation Alliance assesses CDOT’s 2020 Slow Streets program
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ATA provides its assessment of the 2020 Slow Streets program, which made room for safe, socially-distanced walking and biking during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Leland Slow Street reopens, and two more routes are opening in the 5th Ward tomorrow
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Once the sun comes out, we'll surely see lots of people, including plenty of families and kids, enjoying these safer, traffic calmed streets again.
CTA hopes to coax back riders with a new program to spruce up 125 stations this year
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Today the agency announced Refresh & Renew, a program to deep-clean and upgrade 90 percent of the system's rail stations.
Loop Alliance April report shows a continued, alarming rise in downtown parking levels
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The report reveals increased personal car use has continued on a distressingly steep rise, even while foot traffic and office building occupancy remained on par or below March levels.
After United Center vaxx site becomes drive-through only, can you still walk to it?
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After the stadium vaccination site switches back to drive-through only on May 8, will you be able to access it on foot? It's not clear yet.
Bike-share equity in the time of coronavirus
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How did bike-share companies' COVID-19 response impact access to their cycles and bike-share equity?
Union Pacific finally caves, agrees to start collecting fares on Metra trains again
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Was it really safety that motivated Union Pacific to refuse to have its conductors collect fares until long after conductors on Metra-controlled lines went back to walking the trains, or rather a desire to force Metra to the bargaining table?
How will new Chicagoland stimulus transit cash be spent? We won’t know until fall
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When it comes to transit funding from the most recent federal COVID-19 stimulus package, the common sentiment from transit agencies in Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana can be summed up as “wait and see.”
Trib’s Steve Chapman: Transit use is down right now, so we should never invest in it again
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In the bizarro world of the the right-leaning Chicago Tribune, the lessons of the pandemic are that we should instead be putting more focus on car-based transportation.
Sun-Times’ Laura Washington is right: We all need to start riding transit again
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If we want local public transportation to survive the COVID-19 pandemic intact, we've got to be the change we want to see.