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Sharon Hoyer

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Nick Parlingayan. Photo: Facebook

Video shows Nick Parlingayan was dragged 50 feet, residents demand safety upgrades

By Sharon Hoyer | May 11, 2022 | No Comments
Greater protection for people on bicycles is imperative, such as robust protected bike lanes with concrete curbs, Jersey barriers, or rigid bollards.
Sundays on State on the Chicago Theater marquee (date on the sign is from 2021).

Chicago Loop Alliance announces the return of Sundays on State events

By Sharon Hoyer | Mar 29, 2022 | No Comments
Chicago Loop Alliance announced plans for the year ahead, including the return of popular public programming like Sundays on State and the revival of pre-pandemic alley-arts project ACTIVATE.
The Dearborn two-way protected bike lane covered in road salt last month. Photo: John Greenfield

Despite Loop activity plunge during Omicron, January CLA report shows slow recovery

By Sharon Hoyer | Feb 21, 2022 | No Comments
As COVID restrictions ease it is crucial that transit agencies, employers and the city make public transportation the safest, most convenient, and most affordable option for travel downtown.
Looking west at Randolph and State. Photo: Adam Alexander

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Chicago Loop Alliance report shows more downtown walking, transit use, less parking

By Sharon Hoyer | Jan 25, 2022 | No Comments
The disturbing trend of a higher-than-normal number of parking reservations has finally eased, with the number dipping below pre-pandemic averages in the last two weeks of 2021.
The memorial in the Damen Avenue plaza of the Bloomingdale Trail. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

Jose Velásquez, 16, fatally struck by trucker, remembered at gathering on The 606

By Sharon Hoyer | Dec 20, 2021 | No Comments
Almost a hundred attendees stopped by to pay their respects, the majority of whom were teens and young adults.
One of the new bike lanes on Logan Boulevard next to the ghost bike memorial for Kevin Clark. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

At annual meeting, ATA prioritizes safe streets, transit access, and lowering emissions

By Sharon Hoyer | Dec 6, 2021 | No Comments
Hopefully the funding wins from the past year prepare the ground for big material changes in the years ahead.
Shrine at the crash site. Photo: Imelda March

During ghost bike vigil, 100s of mourners occupied intersection where Adé Hogue was killed

By Sharon Hoyer | Nov 3, 2021 | No Comments
Hundreds of mourners gathered at the Jane Addams Memorial Park, at the intersection of Grand Avenue, DuSable Lake Shore Drive, and the Lakefront Trail, to honor his life.
State Street in the Loop earlier this month. Photo: John Greenfield

September Loop Alliance report shows slow, steady increase in walking, transit use

By Sharon Hoyer | Oct 29, 2021 | No Comments
Hopefully promotional fares on the CTA, Metra, and the South Shore Line will help incentivize more folks to return to transit and drive less.
One of the new bike lanes next to the ghost bike memorial for Kevin Clark. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

Road diet, bike lanes finally implemented near deadly Logan/Western intersection

By Sharon Hoyer | Oct 3, 2021 | No Comments
Riding on Logan all the way from the east side of Milwaukee Avenue to Western Avenue in relative safety is "a truly liberating experience."
A person with a bike in Chicago's Roseland community. In recent years the city has been building more bikeways on the Far South Side, but the density of bikeways is still much greater in most of the North Side. Photo: John Greenfield

“Biking Where Black” study shows relationship between lack of bike lanes, heavy ticketing

By Sharon Hoyer | Sep 28, 2021 | No Comments
The report postulates that improved bicycle infrastructure could reduce citations and to some extent mitigate police overreach by reducing sidewalk riding.
Family crossing California Avenue on Logan Boulevard, where traffic diverters have been set up. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

Eyes on the street: Logan and Kedzie boulevards Slow Streets treatment

By Sharon Hoyer | Sep 5, 2021 | No Comments
While the cross-street barricades seen on Logan Boulevard at California and Sacramento might be impractical at Fullerton and Kedzie, more traffic calming measures are needed to turn the Kedzie service drive into a true Shared Street.
A Sundays on State event. Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Loop pedestrian, transit counts slowly returning to normal, but parking is still way up

By Sharon Hoyer | Aug 16, 2021 | No Comments
The announcement at the top of this month’s recovery report from the Chicago Loop Alliance, which tracks pedestrian levels, transportation use and office and hotel occupancy, is a gradual return of life downtown. The Loop Alliance’s eighteen pedestrian counters situated along State Street from Wacker to Ida B. Wells logged over one million people per […]
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