Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about equity

A security guard with a German shepherd on the Red Line. Photo: Dan Gaken

Serious CTA crime is on the rise. How can we fight it beyond using cops and cameras?

By John Greenfield | Jan 13, 2020 | No Comments

More policing and camera surveillance doesn't make everyone feel safer, but bringing back CTA conductors would help deter crime.

There should be physically protected bikeways on every major Chicago street. Photo: John Greenfield

Let’s stop coddling drivers and prioritize building a citywide protected bike lane network

By Courtney Cobbs | Jan 8, 2020 | No Comments

Getting around Chicago on bike should be as safe, convenient, and intuitive as navigating the city by car.

The death of Angie Monroy was a reminder that gun violence is a mobility justice issue

By Lynda Lopez | Dec 17, 2019 | No Comments

As transit and mobility advocates, we need to talk more openly about violence on our streets and how it intersects with our work.

Gia Biagi, right, at Studio Gang's West Town office. Photo: Studio Gang

Advocates laud Lightfoot’s pick of Studio Gang’s Gia Biagi as transportation chief

By John Greenfield | Dec 10, 2019 | No Comments

Biagi comes to CDOT from Jeanne Gang's renowned design firm Studio Gang.

Preckwinkle at the Active Trans meeting. Photo: Active Trans

Preckwinkle at Active Trans meeting: The South Side Metra plan would promote racial equity

By John Greenfield | Dec 9, 2019 | No Comments

The Cook County board president discussed why the proposal is an example of an equitable initiative that focuses resources on communities that need them the most.

As it stands, it's cheaper to buy a month of parking at many Metra stations than it is to buy a pass that let's you ride Pace to and from the station. Active Trans wants to change that. Photo: Active Trans

Here are the best things about Active Trans’ “Fair Fares” recommendations

By Courtney Cobbs | Dec 9, 2019 | No Comments

Streetsblog's Courtney Cobbs discusses the strategies from the transit equity study that she feels can make the most impact.

What does Chicago need to do to achieve transportation equity?

By Courtney Cobbs | Nov 27, 2019 | No Comments

Streetsblog writer Courtney Cobbs discussed the topic at an event hosted by the Chicago Style Committee of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.

Active Trans’ new “Fair Fares” report offers a blueprint for transit equity

By John Greenfield | Nov 25, 2019 | No Comments

Providing lower-income people better access to transit and mobility will contribute to better outcomes for employment, education, health, and public safety, which will safe money for society in the long run.

No, Sun-Times columnist Laura Washington, Lori shouldn’t play nice with Uber

By John Greenfield | Nov 16, 2019 | No Comments

In her second column promoting Uber's bogus message that Chicago's proposed ride-hail tax would hurt poor people, Washington says the mayor should compromise with Uber. Here's why that's wrong.

How Lori’s Uber and Lyft tax plan will help lower-income and working-class Chicagoans

By John Greenfield | Nov 10, 2019 | No Comments

The ride-hail companies are trying to convince Chicagoans that the new fee structure would hurt poor people, but actually the opposite is true.

No, Lori’s plan to make private ride-hail trips more expensive isn’t regressive

By John Greenfield | Nov 5, 2019 | No Comments

Ride-hailing slows down buses and cannibalizes CTA ridership. Reducing private trips while making shared trips cheaper will benefit South and West side residents, who mostly use shared trips.

La Villita Arch in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Inclusive transportation planning requires uplifting the voices of the marginalized

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 31, 2019 | No Comments

Pursuing mobility justice requires relationship-building, political education, and centering those most marginalized in planning.

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