Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about equity

Black advocates call for expanding Chicago’s scooter program with a focus on equity

By John Greenfield | Oct 15, 2019 | No Comments

Oboi Reed from Equiticity and L. Anton Seals Jr. from Grow Greater Englewood put out an advocacy statement in favor of scooters and launched on online petition drive.

Attendees at this year's Untokening in Durham. Photo: Shumara Thomas

Decolonizing our work: Why Untokening is so powerful for BIPOC transportation advocates

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 14, 2019 | No Comments

Transportation and mobility justice work has the potential to play a big role in shifting things for the better if we are able to do it right.

As scooter pilot ends, Active Trans report calls for expanding it, with strings attached

By John Greenfield | Oct 14, 2019 | No Comments

Go ahead and expand the program, Active Trans says, but require parking docks or corrals, and keep them out of downtown and off the Lakefront Trail.

Attendees at this year's Untokening. Photo: Shumara Thomas

What does mobility justice mean? Reflections on last weekend’s Untokening event

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 11, 2019 | No Comments

Mobility justice for me is about expanding freedom for people to be able to move and live their lives joyfully and fearlessly.

City sticker amnesty program is first step to reforming Chicago’s regressive ticketing system

By John Greenfield | Sep 27, 2019 | 12 Comments

Even sustainable transportation advocates should acknowledge that reforming Chicago's motorist ticketing system, which disproportionately impacts Black and Brown residents, is a good thing.

Thomas Chatman, photographed last year in police beat 1011 in North Lawndale, which previously saw the most bike tickets of any beat in the city. Photo: John Greenfield

Decrease in police targeting of Black cyclists is encouraging, but there’s still work to do

By John Greenfield | Sep 27, 2019 | 9 Comments

The total number of tickets written city wide has dropped almost 50 percent since 2016, according to a new Chicago Tribune report. But Black neighborhoods still see more than 50 percent of the citations.

71st Street with Metra Electric Line in the foreground. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Frequent and affordable Metra service would improve quality of life on the South Side

By David Zegeye | Sep 23, 2019 | 7 Comments

Fighting between transit agencies will continue to hurt Black and low-income South Siders the most.

Don’t let competition between agencies and politicians block better South Side transit

By John Greenfield and Steven Vance | Sep 20, 2019 | 12 Comments

Chicago mayor Lightfoot said she's against a proposal by Cook County, backed by her old rival Toni Preckwinkle, that would lower Metra fares and increase service, on the grounds that it would hurt the CTA.

A Vision Zero outreach event. Photo: CDOT

Chicago unveils its West Side Vision Zero Traffic Safety Plan

By John Greenfield | Sep 12, 2019 | 3 Comments

The city says the program addresses traffic safety as a public health and equity issue. Mobility justice advocate Oboi Reed says he still wants assurance that it won't lead to increased police enforcement.

Carlos Vives and Shakira in the video for "La Bicicleta."

The joy and power of bike culture in POC music and art

By Lynda Lopez | Sep 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

If we can reflect diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences in biking through language, art, and music, we can open the doors for more people to be part of biking culture.

Olatunji Oboi Reed kicking off a Slow Roll Chicago ride in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest side of Chicago in August of 2015. Photo: Michael Bracey

Riding Through the Pain: One Year, One Day, and One Hundred Miles of Biking

By Olatunji Oboi Reed | Aug 21, 2019 | 3 Comments

Slow Roll Chicago and Equiticity cofounder Oboi Reed discusses his past year of struggling with clinical depression, and why he's ready to get back in the fight for mobility justice.

The Lakefront Trail near Oak Street Beach. Image: Google Street View

There Were Two Robberies of Cyclists on the Near-North Lakefront on Tuesday

By John Greenfield | Aug 5, 2019 | 3 Comments

Several cyclists were attacked on the Lakefront Trail on the south lakefront in Kenwood and Oakland last spring.

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