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• Better Streets Chicago's Micheál Podgers: "Chicago area should get onboard a unified transit agency" (Crain's)

Last Thursday, the grassroots sustainable advocacy organization Better Streets Chicago held its third annual gathering to celebrate recent accomplishments, and raise funds for future campaigns. The nonprofit was launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by Kyle Lucas, Brittney Lane, Jim Hodapp, and former Streetsblog Co-Editor Courtney Cobbs. Recent efforts included a rally to protest plans to rebuild North DuSable Lake Shore Drive as an eight-lane highway with no bus lanes, lobbying the City to lower the speed limit to 25 mph, and pushing for funding of the #PlowTheSidewalks pilot.

• Tribune: "Sidewalk plowing plan unfunded in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget: 'It would mean freedom'"

Note: This post includes images from the aftermath of a fatal bike crash that may be disturbing.

• NBC: Harvey officials speak out after 3 killed in car vs. train collision

With support from local politicians, they've started a campaign to convince the City and State transportation departments to make the crossing safer for people on foot and bicycle.

• 3 dead after motorist drove past lowered crossing gates and crashed into CSX train in Harvey around 12:30 PM near 152nd Street in Harvey (ABC)

Earlier this month, a 64-year-old man died from injuries he suffered in October, when a hit-and-run Jeep driver struck him on the 1900 block of South Union Avenue (700 W.), besides the Dan Ryan Expressway in Pilsen. Exactly one week after his death, residents gathered for a community meeting to discuss the possibility of rebooting the proposal for El Paseo Trail. That would be a rails-to-trails bike-pedestrian route, which would run just three blocks west of the crash site.

• Block Club: "Mayor Now Backing $150 Million Property Tax Hike After Original Proposal Rejected By Council"