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2 cyclists were killed near Milwaukee/Kilbourn bridge. Let’s rebuild it to make it safer.
Engineer Philip Santos notes that upgrading the area below the bridge would be more expensive and challenging, but well worth the trouble. “There have been two fatalities here. If you’re going to fix a bridge, do it right.”
May 23, 2022
Lucy Gonzalez Parsons Apartments affordable TOD: an experiment in re-integration
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 residents with an opportunity to weather the storm.
May 23, 2022
Video shows Nick Parlingayan was dragged 50 feet, residents demand safety upgrades
Greater protection for people on bicycles is imperative, such as robust protected bike lanes with concrete curbs, Jersey barriers, or rigid bollards.
May 11, 2022
Columbus Park road diet improves safety, CDOT staffers ridicule Block Club coverage
In reality plenty of people are benefitting from the project. And emails show CDOT agreed with us that Block Club's coverage, which asserted that the road diet is "causing traffic jams" despite the data, was absurd.
May 9, 2022
A tale of two cities: What cycling in Vienna and Budapest reminded me about Chicago
Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.
May 4, 2022
Mutiny at the meeting: Lakeview neighbors hijack Metra hearing to voice UP-N concerns
“We’ve been growing, gentrifying, changing the North Side, and you’re endangering everything we have done,” said one neighbor.
May 2, 2022
How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?
What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?
April 28, 2022
$287K verdict shows using flimsy posts to “protect” lanes puts cyclists, taxpayers at risk
Not only do these flimsy installations fail to provide physical protection, they leave taxpayers on the hook for injury lawsuits against the city government when cyclists wipe out on the broken bollards.
April 20, 2022
Cyclist Paresh Chhatrala, 42, died after crash on Madison, where medians were removed
Compounding the tragedy is the fact that the collision might have been avoided if the city hadn't removed planter medians from the street a couple years ago to facilitate faster driving.
April 18, 2022
Block Club’s car-centric take on “horrible” Austin bike lanes contains a kernel of truth
Yes, the article was sensationalistic and inaccurate, and didn't quote anyone in the neighborhood who rides bikes. But when it comes to effective community input in POC neighborhoods, it had a point.
April 13, 2022
