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"Little girl, you should wear reflective safety gear so that grownups in cars won't kill you when you walk in the street at night because there are no sidewalks." Image: National Road Safety Foundation, Chicago Auto Show

Chicago Auto Show producers sponsor contest that produces awful victim-blaming PSAs

By John Greenfield | Mar 10, 2022 | No Comments

This year's Chicago Auto Show showcased absurdly dangerous vehicle designs. Here's a look at the traffic safety PSA contest the show's producer sponsored, which produced victim-blaming video clips.

Unarmed security guards on an 'L' car. Photo: CTA

Number of unarmed guards on CTA doubling to over 200 to address crime, rule-breaking

By John Greenfield | Mar 9, 2022 | No Comments

It will be important to monitor whether the increase in security personnel leads to more unhoused people being ejected from the system without being offered a better alternative for shelter.

Copenhagen's Nørrebrogade, said to be the busiest bike street in the Western World.

Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency. Let’s do that now.

By John Greenfield | Mar 9, 2022 | No Comments

"The government had to introduce car-free Sundays. And then people realized that the car-free Sunday was the best day of the week."

One of the CTA's 12 electric buses operating on Chicago Avenue. Photo: Steven Vance

Nice: CTA gets $118M in operations funds, opportunity to apply for electrification cash

By John Greenfield | Mar 8, 2022 | No Comments

The operations funds will help address service gaps due to labor shortages. Plus federal grant programs were announced that the CTA can apply for to fund plans to electrify its bus fleet by 2040.

Driver entrance to the Chicago Botanic Garden. Image: Google Maps

New Botanic Garden fee scheme discourages walk/bike/transit, encourages driving

By John Greenfield | Mar 7, 2022 | No Comments

For a supposedly environmental-minded organization to do that can only be described as hypocritical and perverse.

The Red Line's Argyle station is currently under construction. Photo: John Greenfield

CTA looks to commission 6 pieces of public art for stations as part of RPM Project

By Steven Field | Mar 4, 2022 | No Comments

The CTA has announced plans to add to its growing public art collection with six works scheduled for installation as part of the reconstruction of the Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn, and Bryn Mawr Red Line stations.

BMW driver fatally struck Gerardo Marciales, 41, as he crossed DLSD on a Divvy bike

By John Greenfield | Mar 3, 2022 | No Comments

Police say the motorist "instead of turning left according to the traffic signal, continued north," but he wasn't cited.

The cover of the zine. Image: Cori Lin, City Bureau

City Bureau zine seeks to educate Chicagoans about community benefit agreements

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

Bronzeville-based media lab City Bureau recently released a zine that seeks to educate Chicago residents on community benefit agreements.

The boarded up entrance to the Buena Avenue underpass, next to the Chicago Peace Garden and the sculpture "Peace and Justice," a monument to Daisaku Ikeda, founder of the Japanese Buddhist movement Soka Gakkai. Photo: John Greenfield

Closed underpasses, and opening minds about a radical redesign of DuSable LSD

By Michael Podgers | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

Impassible underpasses aren't just inconvenient. They also highlight the inconvenient truth that our addiction to cars is contributing to the existential threat of climate change.

The State/Lake 'L' station in the Chicago Loop. Photo: John Greenfield

50 groups ask Pritzker to focus federal funding on sustainable, equitable transportation

By John Greenfield | Mar 2, 2022 | No Comments

"You have a historic opportunity to change the status quo of transportation planning to build good zero emissions public transit systems and construct infrastructure for safe walking and biking."

Unlocking the new gray Divvy e-bikes with a key fob by placing the fob under the LCD screen. Photo: Divvy

We asked CDOT a question about Divvy fobs, and they didn’t just fob us off

By John Greenfield | Mar 1, 2022 | No Comments

It turns out that Divvy members can unlock electric bike-share cycles with their plastic key fobs, even if they're not parked at traditional docking stations.

During Ukraine invasion, subways have served as bomb shelters and protest sites

By Igor Studenkov | Feb 26, 2022 | No Comments

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolds at rapid pace, public transportation continues to play a role on both sides of the border.

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