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The unveiling of Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments on Friday. Photo: Erin Rensink

Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments affordable TOD: an experiment in re-integration

By John Greenfield | May 23, 2022 | No Comments

As I’ve said before, if housing affordability in Chicago’s swiftly gentrifying Logan Square neighborhood is like a sinking ship, the new all-affordable transit-oriented development that opened next to the eponymous Blue Line station last Friday is like a lifeboat. It provides low-income and working-class longtime with an opportunity to weather the storm. Streetsblog Chicago strongly […]

View from inside a bus using the center-running lanes on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Photo: John Greenfield

Is this the beginning of prioritizing buses on Chicago’s streets?

By Courtney Cobbs | May 19, 2022 | No Comments

Better Streets for Buses meetings have started, and ELPC calls for five bus rapid transit routes in five years.

A Pace bus approaches the Harvey Transportation Center, as seen from the Harvey Metra Electric station. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Report: Fair Transit South Cook pilot helped ridership recover from pandemic lows

By Igor Studenkov | May 17, 2022 | No Comments

Cook County’s review of the first full year of the Fair Transit South Cook confirmed some of what Streetsblog Chicago’s earlier dive into Metra ridership numbers suggested.

Lightfoot banning teens from Millennium Park is the wrong public safety approach

By Courtney Cobbs | May 16, 2022 | No Comments

Instead of shutting youth out of public spaces, we need to be designing more public spaces around them, and investing in resources that will help them thrive.

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.

Shared-lane markings recently installed on the Montrose Avenue bridge over the Kennedy Expressway. Photo: Josh Koonce

Advocates urge CMAP’s transportation committee to reject road expansion projects

By Courtney Cobbs | May 11, 2022 | No Comments

A number of advocacy organizations are urging Chicagoland regional transportation agencies to halt plans to add additional lanes to expressways and arterial streets.

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