Report Offers Better Ways to Cut Traffic from New Development
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What if instead of requiring developers to add parking or widen roads, we asked them to do things that discouraged driving and car ownership? That's what Smart Growth America recommends.
Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, October 17
| | 3 Comments- $2.07M in Budget Set Aside for Jobs for Ex-Offenders, Including CTA, Greencorps (Block Club)
- CBS Looks at Chicago Drivers’ Failure to Yield to Pedestrians in Crosswalks
- 26 People Hurt, None Seriously, After #71 Bus Driver Hits Pole in Grand Crossing (ABC)
- Name of Hegewisch Thrift Shop Honors Twin Sisters Who Died in a Crash (CBS)
- Metra’s Threat of Service Cuts Fails to Grab State’s Attention (Daily Herald)
- Lake Forest Approves $100K for Enhanced Milwaukee District-North Service (Tribune)
- Metra to Replace Collapsed Wall on Rte. 45 Bridge Near Libertyville (Tribune)
- Affordable TOD with 54 Units, 20 Spaces Read to Rise in Rogers Park (Curbed)
- Dukmasova: Cook County Is Coming Up With Creative Ideas to Address Poverty (Place Journal)
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Bus Routes Helping Bridge Milwaukee’s Notorious Racial-Economic Divide
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New research shows two reverse-commute bus routes are providing a vital link for low-income neighborhoods. But the state may stop funding them.
Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, October 16
| | 10 Comments- 27 CEOs Ask Rauner & Pritzker to Commit to $50M State Bike Walk Fund (Active Trans)
- Active Trans Director Ron Burke Joins Chicago’s New Mobility Task Force
- After Death of Daniela Chavez, 5, Mary Mitchell Voices Support for RLCs (Sun-Times)
- Balconies Collapse, 2 Injured After Driver Crashes Into Edgewater Building (Sun-Times)
- Mother of Antonio Cowan, 24, Killed as a Result of Police Chase, Is Suing the City (Sun-Times)
- A Man With Loaded Guns, Hundreds of Rounds of Ammunition Arrested on Metra (CBS)
- Chance the Rapper Goes Undercover as a Lyft Driver to Raise Money for CPS (Tribune)
- Lincolnwood Opens New Touhy Avenue Overpass for Skokie Valley Trail (Tribune)
- It’s Cold. Should the CTA to Turn on the Heat Lamps on ‘L’ Platforms? (CBS)
- Could Water Taxis Become Part of the CTA System? (Time Out)
- Activists Will March for Development Without Displacement on 10/20 (Block Club)
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Eyes on the Street: Mixed Messages on the Riverwalk
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While signs and markings on the Lakefront Trail lead cyclists to the riverwalk, signs at the promenade warn that they'll be prosecuted if they ride there, even though it's still legal to do so.
Bike Walk Fund Campaigns Could Bring More Safety Projects to Underserved Areas
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Update 10/16/18: Active Trans announced yesterday that 27 local CEOs have sent a letter to Governor Bruce Rauner and gubernatorial challenger J.B. Pritzker asking them to commit to establishing a $50 million annual state Bike Walk Fund. Last week I tweeted out before-and-after photos of a slip-lane removal at Roscoe/Paulina/Lincoln in the affluent, majority-white Lakeview neighborhood. […]
Today’s Headlines for Monday, October 15
| | 14 Comments- State Lawmakers Say There Could Finally Be a Big Transpo Infra Bill After Election (Tribune)
- Community Groups From Across the City Endorse Active Trans’ Call for a Bike/Walk Fund
- Women’s March Takes Over Downtown Streets for a March to the Polls (Tribune)
- Driver Ran Red at 43rd/Western, Killing Daniela Chavez, 5, Injuring 7 Others (Tribune)
- Oswego Officials Hope to Speed up Talks About Extending Metra to Kendall County (Tribune)
- 100% Affordable Building With 48 Units, 24 Spots Planned Near Kimball Station (Block Club)
- Buffalo Grove Police Participated in National Walk and Bike to School Day (Tribune)
- Bicycling Mag Edits Chicago Bikeway Mileage Numbers Following SBC Post Correcting Them
- Man: I Shouldn’t Be Charged for Taking $1K Bike Because I Left My Own Bike Behind (WBBM)
- Curbed Talks With Daniel Hertz About His New Book “The Battle of Lincoln Park”
- Curbed Checks Out Bike Lane Uprising’s Efforts to Document, Stop Bikeway Obstructions
- Bike Lane Uprising at Hack Night This Tuesday — Online RSVP Required by Noon That Day
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Experts: Feds Aren’t Fixing Pedestrian Safety Crisis
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Federal officials are failing to protect pedestrians — and, in fact, err on the side of drivers and even blame walkers for a pedestrian death toll has increased 50 percent in just eight years, advocates say.
Ghost Bike Installation Planned for Fallen Cyclist Raul Ortiz-Gomez on October 20
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Ortiz was struck and killed by an Uber Driver in West Town as he was biking to work last June.
Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 12
| | 1 Comment- Pace Head T.J. Ross Is Retiring and 2019 Budget Includes Service Cuts (Tribune)
- Wronski Looks at ON TO 2050’s Recommendation to Raise Gas Tax, Add VMT Fee
- Driver Who Struck Man on Lawnmower While Fleeing Another Crash Charged (NBC)
- SUV Driver Charged With DUI After Crashing Into Oak Park Storefronts (Tribune)
- Unlicensed Driver Flees on Foot After Crash in Front of Chicago Theater (ABC)
- Boy, 8, Goes Missing Near North/Clybourn, Is Found at Howard Station (ABC)
- Cyclocross Racing Returns to Capentersville This Sunday (Tribune)
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Despite Inaccurate Numbers, Bicycling Magazine’s Demotion of Chicago Is On-Point
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While the magazine's figures for our city's current bikeway mileage are off, ranking Chicago in sixth place is more realistic than our top ranking in 2016.