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Here’s How the Wood Street Greenway Could Better Prioritize Bicycling
Over the past few years the city has built a handful of "neighborhood greenways," projects that involve small changes to side streets that can have a big impact in making them more bikeable, while connecting residential areas to the wider network of bike lanes. If the Chicago Department of Transportation picks up the pace on building these bikeways, it could actually create the kind of "8 to 80" bike network that the department says is its goal, and the Active Transportation Alliance and other advocates have been pushing for.
June 17, 2016
Intersection Improvements Needed at Site Where Samyra Lee, 7, Was Killed
Last month the driver of a tractor towing mowing equipment struck and killed seven-year-old Samyra Lee as she crossed an Englewood Street while holding hands with her mother. Changes to the intersection are needed to stop another tragic incident like this from occuring again.
June 9, 2016
Rotterdam’s Boulevards Demonstrate How to Make Chicago’s Bike-Friendly
I've discovered few similarities between the city of Rotterdam, where I've been living for seven weeks, and Chicago. The most striking similarity is the nearly identical layout of the boulevard streets. While biking from my apartment in Rotterdam towards the cool neighborhood of Witte de With, I realized that as I was cycling on the side road of a wide street, I was really biking on a facsimile of Kedzie Boulevard in Chicago.
May 27, 2016
MCZ’s Car-Centric West Loop Project Thumbs Its Nose at the TOD Ordinance
Talk about a missed opportunity.
May 16, 2016
How Friends of the Parks Saved a Parking Lot and Killed the Lucas Museum
[The Chicago Reader recently launched a new weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership allows Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We syndicate a portion of the column on the day it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website or in print. The paper hits the streets on Thursdays.]
April 27, 2016
Cast Your Vote for the Milwaukee Avenue Bike Counter Design
Here’s a chance to have your say on what Chicago’s newest piece of bike infrastructure will look like.
April 19, 2016
Dozens of Residents Showed Up for This Week’s South Side Bikeways Meetings
After poor turnout from locals at last month’s two West Side bikeways hearing, with a total of only five area residents attending, there was a much better turnout at the two South Side meetings this week. The input sessions are part of a strategy by the Chicago Department of Transportation to improve bike equity for these parts of the city, which have historically gotten sparser bike lane coverage than the North and Northwest Sides, where more residents have advocated for them.
April 14, 2016
CDOT’s 2015 Bikeways Report Highlights Last Year’s Many Innovative Projects
The Chicago Department of Transportation’s new report “2015 Bikeways – Year in Review” showcases the fact that the CDOT bike program got a heck of a lot of stuff done last year. It quantifies the significant progress that was made in 2015, the year the city debuted curb-protected bike lanes.
April 12, 2016
City Begins Work on Next 50 Miles of Bikeways, Funds Bikes N’ Roses
Today at a ribbon cutting for curb-protected bike lanes on 31st Street by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mayor Emanuel and transportation commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld elaborated on the city’s previously announced plan to build 50 more miles of bikeways by 2019.
April 11, 2016
After Driver Injures Senior at Devon/Greenview, City May Fix Intersection
On Wednesday at around 4 p.m. a motorist struck and injured an elderly woman at the intersection of Devon and Greenview, on the border between Edgewater and Rogers Park.
April 9, 2016