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Steven Vance

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

Recent Posts

Better Streets cofounder Kyle Lucas addresses the crowd at last night's party. Photo: Steven Vance

Better Streets kicks up its safe streets lobbying efforts with launch of new Action Fund

By Steven Vance | Dec 8, 2022 | No Comments
Last night's event was an impressive show of strength by the local safe streets advocacy movement, and an auspicious start for Better Streets' next chapter.
The locations of crashes between Sunday, November 27, and Saturday, December 3. Image: Chicago Crash Browser

Last week was an especially deadly one for Chicago traffic violence

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | Dec 7, 2022 | No Comments
Between Sunday, November 27, and Saturday, December 3, there were 1,731 reported traffic crashes in Chicago.
A CTA Train Tracker screen

“Move Chicago” transportation recommendations are back for Chicago’s 2023 election

By Steven Vance | Oct 5, 2022 | No Comments
Move Chicago is a collection of strategies and recommendations that have been developed by many different advocates and organizations, and city and regional planners, over the years.
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.
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