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Let’s lobby for fair sustainable transportation funding in Chicago’s 2021 budget
It may seem like an uphill battle during COVID, but it's important to remember that sustainable transportation investments generally provides excellent bang for the buck in terms of economic benefits.
September 14, 2020
Building a 500-car garage in the West Loop is counterproductive to fighting climate change
A focus on car storage ignores the true costs of car-based infrastructure. Climate change poses an existential threat, and adding more parking for cars ignores that reality.
September 11, 2020
Which is best: Bird, Lime, or Spin? The “Chicago Scooters” tweeter test-rode all three
The person behind the Chicago Scooters Twitter account recently test-rode the three brands and discussed their findings with Streetsblog.
September 10, 2020
Converting parking to people space on 75th helps reenergize Black-owned restaurant strip
The new 75th Street Boardwalk, located between Calumet and Indiana avenues is available for use by eleven local restaurants and businesses.
September 10, 2020
Here’s an update on the Red and Purple Modernization project a year into the project
All of the Belmont flyover columns were finished this summer, and temporary stations are being built in Uptown and Edgewater to allow for service as new ones are built.
September 8, 2020
Northcenter Town Square highlights the benefits of turning parking into people space
The project took land that was mostly used for storing privately owned metal boxes and turned it into a wonderful neighborhood amenity.
September 3, 2020
Colorful new art installations have arrived at the Montrose Blue, Diversey Brown stops
The Montrose Blue and Diversey Brown stations just got colorful, thought-provoking new public art that will make the commute more interesting.
September 2, 2020
West side stretch of Chicago Avenue could get road diet, bus and bike lanes
The Chicago Department of Transportation is asking for feedback from residents on its plan to improve the stretch of Chicago Avenue between Kedzie and Latrope avenues in Humboldt Park and Austin.
August 29, 2020
The western third of the Cortland/Wabansia Slow Street has been dismantled
Over the weekend CDOT dismantled part of another popular Slow Street in response to feedback from residents and use data the department collected.
August 24, 2020
Residents pushed back on decision to dismantle Dickens, but Slow Street is already gone
Just a few days after Alderman Smith announced the end of the pilot, the traffic calming treatment, which enabled safe, socially-distanced walking and biking in the roadway, has already been taken down.
August 21, 2020
