Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about equity

Johnny Harris rides a bike in North Lawndale. Photo: John Greenfield

ACLU of Illinois Weighs in on the CPD’s Racially Skewed Bike Ticketing Policies

By John Greenfield | Jul 23, 2018 | 14 Comments

An ACLU rep says it's doubtful that heavy-handed bike enforcement would be tolerated in majority-white neighborhoods.

A Divvy station in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Photo: John Greenfield

Adonia Lugo: Bike Advocates Need to Stop Overlooking Issues of Race and Class

By Lynda Lopez | Jul 18, 2018 | 34 Comments

Lugo's new book "Bicycle/Race" argues that bike planning discussions must take "human infrastructure" into account.

If your transit agency is neglecting the basics of good bus service, it's failing to advance social equity. Photo: David Meyer

6 Principles for a Transit System That Makes Your City More Fair and Just

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 18, 2018 | No Comments

Transit should be a great social equalizer. In many cities, however, transit's potential to advance economic fairness is held in check because resources are distributed inequitably.

A Divvy for Everyone outreach ride. Photo: Divvy

Divvy Lowers Long-term Cost of D4E Memberships, Relaxes Membership Rules

By John Greenfield | Jul 11, 2018 | 12 Comments

Now the membership cost goes up incrementally over four years, and people from various public aid programs are automatically eligible.

Robert Calvin rides in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, one of the Black communities that saw heavy bike ticketing over the past two years. Photo: John Greenfield

CPD: Police Are Using Bike Ticketing to Make Gun and Drug Arrests in Communities of Color

By Igor Studenkov | Jun 7, 2018 | 7 Comments

A police rep had previously denied that bike citations were a pretense for stop-and-frisk.

The DoBi pilot has expanded the area of the city with bike-share access by roughly 50 percent, but big areas of the Southwest and Northwest sides still don't have shared bikes. Map: Steven Vance

Even With the New Dockless Pilot, Chicago Still Has Vast Bike-Share Deserts

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | May 3, 2018 | 19 Comments

Combining the Divvy and DoBi zones on a map also shows which parts of the Far South Side got left out of the pilot, and how Divvy station density affects the usefulness of the system.

Slimm, 25, Los Ryderz member, on his bike in Ted Watkins Park in Watts. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 2, 2018 | No Comments

When Black and Brown cyclists need safety from more than traffic

A cyclist rides on Independence Boulevard in North Lawndale, which saw about 80 times as many bike tickets last year as Lincoln Park. Photo: John Greenfield

CDOT Will Let Equiticity CEO Speak About Racially Biased Bike Ticketing at MBAC

By John Greenfield | Feb 28, 2018 | 7 Comments

CEO Oboi Reed says the city officials promised to solve the problem but failed to do so.

Active Trans argues that Illinois lawmakers should shift their focus from driving to sustainable transportation. Photo: Jeff Zoline

A Look At Active Trans’ Transportation Platform for the 2018 Illinois Election

By John Greenfield | Feb 26, 2018 | No Comments

The document calls for shifting the focus of planning and funding efforts from speeding car traffic to improving safety, health, sustainability, and equity.

The South Central bike shop where cops pulled up and ordered Anthony to get up against the wall. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 13, 2018 | No Comments

There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.

Robert Calvin rides in Chicago's Austin neighborhood. 264 bike tickets were written in the community last year, compared to only five in Lincoln Park. Photo: John Greenfield

Equiticity’s Oboi Reed Responds to the Latest Tribune Report on Racially Biased Bike Ticketing

By John Greenfield | Feb 12, 2018 | 15 Comments

Almost a year after the Trib revealed apparent racial bias in ticketing practices, little has changed.

Participants in a Slow Roll Chicago tour of Bronzeville used Divvy loaner bikes. Photo: John Greenfield

Regular Divvy Membership is Still Heavily White, But Divvy for Everyone Is Diverse

By John Greenfield | Jan 15, 2018 | 7 Comments

Regular Divvy membership is now 83.9 percent white, but D4 membership is only 28 percent white.

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