Design

With the recent restoration of the building's clock tower, the city calls the $203 million Wilson station rzenovation a success.

It's great that the design calls for pedestrianizing Cornell Drive, but the city plans to create more capacity than ever, which will only encourage more driving.

The city's project to redesign Milwaukee Avenue from Logan Boulevard to Belmont has primarily focused on the complicated issues that surround the six-way intersection and traffic circle at Milwaukee, Logan, and Kedzie, the namesake of the Logan Square neighborhood. Last night's hearing on the initiative was similarly focused on the juction, as five of the eight design presentation boards and all of the tables set up with plans laid out upon them featured the four new Logan Square layout concepts. That made sense, because anyone that you talked to at the meeting immediately offered up their opinion about the intersection, although people still had some thoughts to share about the rest of Milwaukee.

Trump may eliminate federal funding for transit, and a transit TIF wouldn't raise anywhere near enough money for the project.

Although LA has a reputation for being hopelessly car-dependent, with a little planning you can have a great time sightseeing via buses and trains.

When your local transit authority installs bike racks that are less-than-ideal, that’s a good problem to have, but bad racks are a recurring issue at new CTA stations.

The CTA hopes to wrap up work on the south terminal, which will accommodate bus service, this spring.

The next step should be to make the whole plan less car-focused by investing in transit infrastructure rather than road widening.

While the faculty members are opposed to pedestrianizing Cornell Drive, they also note that it would be inequitable to use parkland to house a garage for the center and spend taxpayer money to widen nearby roadways.