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Steven Vance

stevevance
Transportation planner and advocate. Steven also created Chicago Cityscape, a site that tracks neighborhood developments across the city.

Recent Posts

Wood Street near Iowa Street. Image: Google Street View

Wood Street isn’t a high-crash corridor, but it would still benefit from protected lanes

By John Greenfield and Steven Vance | Feb 15, 2022 | No Comments
Yes, installing the Wood Street protected bike lane isn't necessarily a matter of life or death. But it would make the corridor more comfortable for current and potential bike riders.
The futuristic BP station at Clark and LaSalle on Chicago's Near North Side. Image: Google Maps

Here’s why Pritzker’s plan to skip this year’s scheduled gas tax hike is a bad idea

By Steven Vance | Feb 1, 2022 | No Comments
The proposal, which is projected to cost the state $135 million in revenue, is unfair to people who don't drive. And it may not even save much money for drivers.
The zones within 10 miles of all Metra and South Shore Line stations. Excluding areas in Eastern Time, does this represent the boundaries of the region where Chicagolanders dwell? Map: Steven Vance

Is this Chicagoland? A modest proposal for defining the region

By John Greenfield and Steven Vance | Jun 25, 2021 | No Comments
is this a reasonable way to define Chicagoland, or does it exclude any towns that deserve to be considered part of the region?
An Amtrak employee describes the return of formal dining.

Amtrak is restoring long-distance service and dining, and replacing seat cushions

By Steven Vance | Jun 16, 2021 | No Comments
Amtrak wants to make riding across the United States cheaper, more comfortable, and easier this year, as more and more people get vaccinated and it becomes safer to travel.
The vaccination village at the United Center

Most people in Chicagoland can access COVID vaccination sites via transit

By Steven Vance | Mar 17, 2021 | No Comments
How do we make it easier for people across the region to access vaccinations without driving?
Photo: Eric Allix Rogers

Metra hints that it may eventually move to a less 9-to-5-focused train schedule

By Steven Vance | Feb 1, 2021 | No Comments
A "regional rail" scheme, with more frequent service during non-rush hours, would make the network more useful non-white collar workers, as well as non-work commutes.
The new coaches will have level boarding. Rendering by Alstom.

Metra board chooses new modern passenger rail cars to replace 1950s “Gallery” cars

By Steven Vance | Jan 13, 2021 | No Comments
Metra has selected a new passenger coach design that will eventually replace the current "Gallery" cars.
Photo: John Greenfield

3-cent gas tax hike wouldn’t impact drivers much, but taking $16M from CTA is wrong

By Steven Vance | Nov 20, 2020 | No Comments
Included in Mayor Lightfoot's proposed budget are two transportation-related tax changes, one that would make driving a little more expensive, but another that would reduce funding for transit.
Image from Lyft's Super PAC website.

Lyft launched a new Super PAC to prevent Illinois gig workers from getting employee benefits

By Steven Vance | Nov 13, 2020 | No Comments
After Lyft and other companies overturned California legislation that classified ride-hail drivers as employees, it's now setting its sights on the Prairie State with a $534K Super PAC.
Mr. Tamez, a neighbor on Cortland, asked for a sign to put on his own fence. Photo: Ben Helphand, Friends of the Bloomingdale

Eyes on the Street: City installs Bloomingdale Trail alternative Slow Streets route

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | Jun 12, 2020 | No Comments
There's doesn't seem to have been much outreach about the project, so expect a few grumbles from motorists. But once people start enjoying the corridor, criticisms should fade.
The new sidewalk extension. Photo: Steven Vance

Eyes on the Street: The North/Damen/Milwaukee slip lane removal is now permanent

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | May 4, 2020 | No Comments
CDOT has made the slip lane removal at the the south side of Wicker Park's usually-bustling North/Damen/Milwaukee intersection permanent. 
IDOT blamed a 50-car pileup on the Kennedy Expressway on April 15 on drivers going "way too fast" for conditions. Image: CBS Chicago

Your suspicion is right: People have been speeding more during Stay at Home

By Steven Vance | Apr 29, 2020 | No Comments
Chicago speed camera data shows that more tickets were issued during a three-week period during Stay at Home than at any other time in more than a year.
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