John Greenfield
In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John has written about transportation and more for many other local and national publications. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city and region on foot, bike, bus, and train.
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Some 100 people braved the rain to honor fallen cyclists on the 20th annual Chicago Ride of Silence
The event also drew attention to the need for safer street design, and for Chicago to follow peer cities' examples by lowering our default speed limit to 25 mph.
Today’s Headlines for Thursday, May 22
Bicycle youth: Quetzal Kilgore, 18, shares the experience of growing up car-free in Chicago
"There's a good mix of time where you don't want your parents to drop you off, but you have to, because you don't have your own car," Quetzal said. "I never had that."
The right and wrong ways to write a postmortem about car-free Lincoln Avenue
Block Club's Alex V. Hernandez did a well-researched and illuminating article on the subject. Inside Publications' Peter Von Buol, not so much.
An intersection redesign advocates pitched years ago might have prevented the latest serious bike injury crash on Wrightwood Avenue
A driver fatally struck Ron Mendoza, 43, at Wrightwood/Pulaski in 2023. Another motorist seriously injured a boy, 16, Thursday at Wrightwood/Cicero.