Beyond Chicagoland

Former Active Transportation ALliance director Rob Sadowsky was let go from his post leading the Bicycle Transportation Alliance. Contrary to a tip we received, Sadowsky is not returning to Active Trans.

The early-morning and late-afternoon weekday trains aren't going to be useful for most commutes or excursions, so it's likely these runs won’t see many bikes.

When mobility-related social justice issues, such as gentrification and police abuse, come up, it often makes relatively privileged people uncomfortable.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining veteran newsman Ken Davis on his CAN TV program "Chicago Newsroom" to discuss recent local and national transportation stories.

Conference brought together bike and pedestrian advocates of color from around the country.

As it was for the people behind virtually every other progressive cause, the election of Donald Trump was a sad day for those of us who want to see the U.S. move toward a more efficient, healthy, and equitable transportation system.

In yesterday’s Tribune, an official from the South Shore Line commuter rail system, which runs from downtown Chicago to South Bend, Indiana, said that the line’s bikes-on-board program got less use than hoped for in its first season.

It’s hard to predict what last night's election means for the future of sustainable transportation in the U.S. But as Streetsblog editor-in-chief Ben Fried wrote this morning, the fact that the Republican party doesn’t rely on city dwellers for votes, and the president-elect’s rural base doesn’t include many fans of better transit and walkable, bikeable streets, is not a good sign.

[Last year the Chicago Reader launched a weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. We syndicate a portion of the column on Streetsblog after it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website or in print.]