Sharon Hoyer
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How green, walkable, bikeable, play-friendly streets promote good mental health
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Urban design that makes space for residents to safely and easily interact with the outdoors and each other plays a major role in both physical and psychological well-being.
Troubling: Loop Alliance report shows short-term Loop parking is skyrocketing
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Encouraging commuters and visitors to the Loop to bike or take public transportation needs to be a top priority.
Loop Alliance April report shows a continued, alarming rise in downtown parking levels
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The report reveals increased personal car use has continued on a distressingly steep rise, even while foot traffic and office building occupancy remained on par or below March levels.
Police vehicle chases end in crashes two-thirds of the time, according to hacked emails
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In an age of traffic cameras, satellite images, and police body cams, are police vehicle chases necessary?
Car-free Sundays on State events will run through the summer, starting July 11
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Chicago has a rare opportunity to reimagine Loop streets as a vital space for community gathering, rather than just corridors to move motor vehicles through.
Transportation for America Panel: Bold vision is needed to achieve transit funding parity
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Panelists also agreed that connecting representatives with the real-life stories of their constituents is the most powerful way to build support for funding transit.
Steep rise in downtown parking rate may foreshadow personal car use hitting crisis levels
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The Chicago Loop Alliance's March downtown activity report showed vehicle parking rates skyrocketed as the weather warmed and pandemic restrictions loosened.
You can ask lawmakers to eliminate 20% local match requirement for walk/bike infra
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File a witness slip online by Tuesday afternoon to make your voice heard.
Loop Alliance details plan to bring Open Streets to State Street for first time since 2011
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The Loop Alliance hopes their program will be a shot in the arm for a downtown that is still struggling with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buttigieg broadly commits to increased safety, equity, sustainability – details pending
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Buttigieg presented an ambitious vision for a more just and sustainable transportation system in the U.S. We’ll be eagerly following the funding, regulation and policy specifics of how this vision can be realized.
Police chases killed 3 bystanders in Chicago last year – It’s time to rethink policies
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In what circumstances does any immediate danger the suspect presents to the public outweigh the potential for endangering officers, suspects, and innocent bystanders?
Chuy Garcia’s bill calls for four times the current amount of federal transit funding
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Advocates acknowledged the goals is ambitious and achieving parity is unlikely this year, but a strategy of aiming high could significantly move the funding needle during this window of opportunity.