Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about On The Route Bicycles

Encouraged by Good Ridership, CTA Extends 31st St. Bus Pilot, but Not Service Hours (Tribune) Study Will Look at Ways to Improve Bus Service on S. Halsted, Including BRT Elements (DNA) North Branch Corridor Could Open to New Zoning Uses by End of the Month (Curbed) Woman Stabbed Outside Jefferson Park Transit Center (ABC) Woman […]

State Legislation Passes a Budget, Paving the Way for Addressing Transportation Issues (Sun-Times) First Section of Lakefront Trail Separation Between 31st and 41st Opens Today (Tribune) Drivers Often Fail to Stop for Pedestrians When They See Flashing Yellow Beacons at Crosswalks (Tribune) Should Cyclists Avoid Pulling Up to the Right of Drivers Who Are About […]

Waymond Smith: CPD’s Racially Biased Bike Ticketing Influenced My Decision to Leave Chicago (Defender) Active Trans Releases “Suburban Bikeways for All” Report on Current State of Biking in the ‘Burbs Wired: The O’Hare Express Is a Dumb Idea; Getting Elon Musk Involved Would Make It Dumber DNA Testing Leads to Charges in 2015 Englewood Hit-and-Run […]

Gabriel Ciupeiu, 19, Fatally Struck After Biking on Red Line Platform, Falling Onto Tracks (WGN) Police: Drunk Driver Causes 5-Car Crash Near Metra Tracks in Riverside (Sun-Times) Police Searching for Man Who Sexually Assaulted Woman on Garfield Green Line Platform (DNA) Metra Discusses Plan to Boost MED Service to Hyde Park, Reduce It Elsewhere (DNA, HPK […]

Fewer Divvy Riders Ride to Work Than in NYC, DC, But They Patronize Small Businesses (Curbed) Metra Board Voting Today on Whether to Renew $2.7M in Contracts With Lobbying Firms (Tribune) Cross-Country Cyclist Tim Lalla From Orland Park Seriously Injured by Driver in Alabama (NBC) Evanston Police: Man Faces Charges of Being a So-Called “Pedestrian […]

Prepaid Bus Boarding Coming to 69th St. Red Line Station, Lakeview LSD Bus Stop (DNA) The Tribune Looks at How the State Budget Crisis Could Lead to Shutdown of 700 Road Projects Speeding Hit-and-Run Driver Killed Eric Judge, 23, at 1:30 AM Sunday at Division/Damen (DNA) 13 suffer Minor Injuries in CTA Bus/Car Collision at […]

Bike to Work Week Kicks Off Friday With Rally in Daley Plaza From 7-9 AM (Chicagoist) Lawsuit Filed Over Crash Death of Keshawn Horton During Police Pursuit (Sun-Times) Chicago-Base Basecamp Is Boycotting Uber Over Its Corporate Culture (Crain’s) If Dockless Bike-Sharing Comes to Chicago, It Should Go to Areas That Don’t Have Divvy (Active Trans) […]

Police: Lake Shore Drive Crash Injured 4 Kids, 4 Adults (DNA) NW Side Residents Packed Gompers Park Fieldhouse in Support of Bikeways & Trails (Active Trans) Dunning Has No Rapid Transit Service Nowadays, But It Used to Be a Rail Hub (DNA) More Coverage of the CTA’s 125th Anniversary (Tribune, Sun-Times, Curbed, Architect’s Newspaper) We Chartered […]

Driver Killed Louis Smith, 56, on Bike in East Garfield Last Night, 2nd Bike Fatality of 2017 (CBS) 2nd Attack on a Cyclist in South Loop in 3 Days: Car Passenger Grabbed Woman’s Backpack (DNA) CDOT Has Deactivated Red Light Cam at Irving/Kedzie, Mell Asking for a Left-Turn Signal (DNA) 774 Chicago Taxi Medallions Have Been […]

Driver Killed Edith Guevara, 58, Injured Another Pedestrian in Portage Park (Sun-Times) Hit-and-Run Driver Fatally Struck Man Who Fell Out of Party Bus on the Tri-State (Herald) Man Jumped Out of Car, Punched and Robbed Divvy Rider in South Loop (ABC) City Removes Red Light Cams at 6 Low-Crash Intersections (DNA) Cab Drivers’ Union: Due […]

Chicago Was the Only Major U.S. City to Lose Population From 2015 to 2016 (Tribune) Metra Plans to Boost Service to Hyde Park, Pullman, Cut It on Electric Line Branches (Tribune) Metra Will Install New On-Board Security Cam System (CBS) Maldonado, Moreno, LSNA, LUCHA Rally for Law Charging Fees for Teardowns by 606 (DNA) Antique […]