Neighborhoods

Neighbors have launched an online petition demanding that the CTA restore Green Line service to Stony Island and the future presidential library site.

Last night, the advocacy organization hosted a gathering to encourage local residents to advocate for the bike lanes.

Researchers interviewed bike-share users in Bronzeville, as well as NYC and Philly, to identify barriers to bike-share use and strategies to broaden user demographics.

Black lives on bikes matter, including those who came together this past Monday to ride and celebrate Juneteenth Day.

The phenomenon of police presenting motorists’ accounts of fatal or serious bike crashes as fact can be a roadblock to finding out what really happened to these victims and making sure justice is served.

The new West Town Master Plan, commissioned by the West Town Chamber of Commerce and Special Service Area #29, floats the idea of converting  two of the four mixed-traffic lanes on Chicago Avenue in the neighborhood to buffered bike lanes. While that's a forward-thing idea, it would actually make sense to use that extra right-of-way for dedicated bus lanes, because that would help move a greater number of people across the city more efficiently.

Merchants are beginning to understand that their bottom line depends less on the number of vehicles they can park than the number of customers they can accommodate.

What you're seeing isn't a typical "Eyes on the Street" because we got our "eyes" up in the air with the new Streetsblog Chicago Traffic Chopper (actually a drone camera) to check in on the reconstruction of the CTA's Wilson 'L' station in Uptown. The project, which began in 2014, will make the train stop fully accessible to people with disabilities, add a new entrance on Sunnyside, and enable transfers between Red and Purple lines for the first time.

The new hardware will be used to increase density in communities with a dearth of Divvy, as well as add capacity to popular downtown stations.