Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about On The Route Bicycles

Sun-Times Looks at Lyft’s NYC, DC, SF Electric Bike Recall Uber Had the Same Braking Problem With Its Bikes, Never Told Anyone (WaPo) Woman, 73, Crashes Into Mount Greenwood CVS (NBC) 2-Hour Police Chase That Started in Bridgeport Ends With Crash in Schaumburg (Sun-Times) Metra Launches COPS Crime-Reporting App (Sun-Times) Advocates: Illinois Should Quit Suspending […]

More Coverage of the Divvy/Lyft Expansion Deal Hearing (Sun-Times, Tribune) Letter: Delay the Divvy Council Vote Until After Lightfoot Takes Office (Tribune) Theaster Gates Tapestries and DJ Booth Unveiled at 95th Red Line Station (WGN) Niles Police Investigating Fourth Pedestrian Within Village Death Since December (Tribune) 6 Injured in Kennedy Expressway Crash (ABC) 4 Injured, […]

Active Trans Asks Members to Support State Bill for Bike/Ped Funding Chicago Sells 1 in 4 Towed Vehicles but Barely Makes Any Money From It (WBEZ) Infant Seriously Injured in Dan Ryan Crash (NBC) Man Arrested After Allegedly Attacking CTA Rider With Hammer on Red Line (CBS) Man Charged in Hit-and-Run Death of Izaiah Lopez, […]

Illinois Resident Agree We Need More Transpo Funding, Don’t Want to Pay for It (Tribune) RTA Awards Funds to 9 Chicagoland Projects (RT&S) You’ll Soon Be Able to Pay Your CTA or Metra Fare With a Smartphone Via Apple Pay (Tribune) With 14 Squad Cars Hit, 1 Trooper Killed, Pritzker Urges Public to Use Caution […]

CTA Worker Attacked at Roosevelt Stop Is 2nd ‘L’ Platform Stabbing Victim This Week (ABC) Yesterday’s High Winds Delayed Metra Trains (NBC) Blue Line Service Briefly Halted on Forest Park Branch Due to “Minor Fire” (ABC) Condo Prices Along Blue Line in Logan, Wicker Higher Than Lakeview, Lincoln Park (Block Club) The Busse Highway Bike […]

LY Project Doubles Affordable Units — “$1.3M in TIF Subsidy per Affordable Unit” (Tribune) Badly Beaten, Seriously Injured Man Found on the Red Line at Harrison Stop (ABC) Light Snow This Morning Caused Multiple Crashes on Area Expressways (Tribune) How to Advocate for Bike/Walk Education in Schools (Active Trans) Village Funds, State Grant to Pay […]

Check out Candidates’ Responses to Our Questionnaire Before You Vote Today Police: 6 Injured After SUV Driver Fails to Stop for Ambulance (Sun-Times) Bus Driver, 82, Charged With DUI After Crash Injures 4 Children and an Adult  (Tribune) 2 Injured After Driver Hits Pole, Splits Car in Southwest-Suburban Lyons (CBS) Union Station’s Great Hall Looks […]

Active Trans Now Releases Candidates’ Transportation Questionnaire Responses (FWIW) Lime Has Endorsed the Active Trans Agenda South Branch Vision Advances the Chicago River Trail (Active Trans) CMAP Chief Joe Szabo Is Stepping Down (Crain’s) 2 City Bodies Will Soon Consider Approving TIF Funding for Lincoln Yards (ChiGov) Police Seek Lyft Driver Who Critically Injured Woman, […]

How the Polar Vortex Spotlighted Weaknesses in Regional Transit (Tribune) Sale of Land Approved at West End of 606 for 100% Affordable Development (Block Club) Man in Critical Condition After Being Shot While Biking in Austin (Sun-Times) Driver Who Killed Amira Nairat, 15, Was Arrested and Released Hours Before Crash (NBC) Metra’s Winnetka Station to […]

South Shore and MED Still Down, Most Other Metra Lines Delayed (Tribune) ChiGov.com Looks at the Lincoln Yards Traffic Study Active Trans: Lincoln Yards Lacks Vision for Biking, Walking & Transit Police Search for Driver of Black SUV Wanted in Hit-and-Run (Sun-Times) Youth Call for Speeding up Diversey Bus, Ald. Villegas Says He’s on It […]

Dorothy Brown, Who Proposed a New Bike Tax, Is off the Mayoral Ballot (Tribune) Preckwinkle Vows to Revamp Overly Punitive Ticketing Policy Targeting Minorities (Sun-Times) Moore: To Address Segregation Chicago Should Look to Other Cities’ Best Practices (WBEZ) Driver Fatally Struck Chamber Orchestra Founder Robert Boarde Green, 82, in Chatham (Tribune) CTA Driver Injured Jumping […]

Government Shutdown Is Affecting Airports, Slowing CTA Project Funding (Tribune) CTA Bus and Train Operators Tell All (Chicago Magazine) Lyft Will Show CTA and Metra Schedules in Its App (Tribune) Semi Bursts Into Flames After Driver Strikes Empty Bus on I-294 (Tribune) Man Rescued Before Metra Train Strikes Car in Lombard (Sun-Times) Another Teen Charged […]