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Let’s fence off empty parking lanes to make room for safe walking and running
Sidewalks are crowded nowadays, but parking lanes were empty. Let's turn parking lanes into pedestrian space.
April 6, 2020
Nice work Chicago! Thankfully Critical Mass didn’t happen Friday, but #CoronaMass did.
It's great that nobody showed up for Critical Mass. Our city needs every bike advocate we can get, so we can't afford to lose any of them to COVID-19.
March 30, 2020
Chicagoans use tactical urbanism to cheer each other up during the pandemic
Shamrocks and teddy bears in windows, window singing, and street dancing are helping to lift people's spirits during this challenging time.
March 27, 2020
Please don’t ride in Critical Mass tomorrow. Do your own #CoronaMass instead.
Instead of doing the group ride, take a solo excursion or ride with household members or a friend or two, and share photos on social media with the hashtag #CoronaMass.
March 26, 2020
Chicago’s lack of car-free streets is creating unsafe crowding on trails during the pandemic
To help Chicagoans to travel and recreate safely, without being exposed to the virus or dangerous drivers, let's create a citywide network of car-free major streets.
March 25, 2020
Let’s respond to coronavirus and climate change with car-free streets, bus and bike lanes
Creating more car-free streets for safe transportation and recreation during the current pandemic crisis would also address the longterm challenge of climate change.
March 25, 2020
What the heck is going on with the Lakefront Trail?
Although it looks like the bike path is fine to use between Fullerton and North avenues, the park district says that erosion has made it unsafe to ride on.
March 10, 2020
Lane of Lower LSD converted to protected bike/ped path, carmageddon doesn’t ensue
Thanks to the magic of traffic evaporation — the phenomenon that when you take away space for drivers, demand tends to go away as well — the lane closure seems to be having no discernible effect on car traffic.
February 12, 2020
The slower Pace of suburban transit: It can be difficult to get around the ‘burbs car-free
A bus trip home from the car repair shop wasn't bad, but a suburb-to-suburb transit commute or journey with multiple stops, can be challenging.
February 6, 2020
At a bike courier photo show, a discussion of why the gig economy is unfair to workers
During Dean La Prairie's opening for "Messenger," featuring photos of Nineties Chicago couriers, PhD candidate Ashley Baber discussed how flexible work functioned -- or didn't -- then and now.
January 23, 2020
