Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Loop

Eyes on the Street: Dearborn Street Striping Upgrades Begin

By Steven Vance | Jun 24, 2013 | 16 Comments

Frequent Dearborn Street bike lane user Justin Haugens sends us these photos from his way to work in the South Loop. At the Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council meeting two weeks ago, a CDOT staffer said that Dearborn Street would be receiving a slew of upgrades to better identify areas of conflict between people driving and bicycling, […]

Eyes on the Street: Diagonal Crosswalk Coming to State/Jackson?

By Steven Vance | May 20, 2013 | 10 Comments

Kevin Zolkiewicz sent us these photos on Saturday showing the new pedestrian crossing signals pointing diagonally across the intersection of State Street and Jackson Boulevard, right outside DePaul University’s Loop campus. We’re waiting for confirmation from CDOT, but it looks like these signals are designed to work as part of an exclusive pedestrian phase — […]

Eyes on the Street: Trattoria No. 10 Puts “Stop Signs” in Dearborn Bike Lane

By Steven Vance | May 16, 2013 | 20 Comments

The Trattoria No. 10 restaurant at 10 N Dearborn Street installed their own “stop for pedestrians” signs (taped to bricks) on Tuesday in the middle of the two-way Dearborn bike lane. The Chicago Department of Transportation received notification via Twitter, to which they responded: @justinhaugens Those signs should not be placed in the bike lane. […]

CTA and CDOT Unveil Proposed Designs for Central Loop BRT Corridor

By John Greenfield | Feb 20, 2013 | 41 Comments

Chicago just got a step closer to first-class bus rapid transit. Today the CTA and the Chicago Department of Transportation released proposed lane configurations for the Central Loop East-West Transit Corridor, a downtown circulator route connecting Union Station with Navy Pier, as well as renderings for a new transit center next to the train station. […]

LaHood Suggests Chicago Riverwalk Financing Will Be Approved Soon

By John Greenfield | Feb 14, 2013 | 7 Comments

Things are looking promising for our city’s latest high-profile public space plan, the Chicago Riverwalk extension. In an interview Tuesday with Streetsblog Capitol Hill editor Tanya Snyder, outgoing U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood implied that a Transportation Infrastructure Finance Innovation Act loan will soon be approved that will help bankroll the $90-100 million project. “There’s […]

Maximizing the Chicago Riverwalk’s Role as a Transportation Route

By John Greenfield | Feb 7, 2013 | 10 Comments

The Chicago Riverwalk extension, from State Street to Lake Street along the south bank of the waterway, will be a marquee public space and recreation project in the same class as Millennium Park and the Bloomingdale trail and park. And like the Bloomingdale, the riverwalk also has the potential to be a valuable addition to […]

The Problem With Wolf Point and Its 1,285 Parking Spaces

By Steven Vance | Jan 30, 2013 | 23 Comments

The Wolf Point site, just south of the Apparel Mart and Chicago Sun-Times building at the confluence of the Chicago River’s three branches, has been begging for more productive uses for decades. Momentum has been building since developers associated with the Kennedy family proposed a plan for three towers at Wolf Point in 2007, and […]