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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
Shared Mobility Action Agenda aims to make non-private-car modes handy for all by 2030
There are many ways to screw up shared mobility. So hopefully the action agenda will focus on shared modes that actually decrease emissions, rather than exacerbate climate change.
May 17, 2022
Pace field-tests leased e-bus, will probably cancel redundant Pace/Metra PlusBus Pass
The suburban bus system is already using a leased electric bus to do some field-testing. It also plans to eliminate the now-superfluous PlusBus Pass, which allows Metra monthly pass holders to ride Pace buses for an extra $30 a month.
May 15, 2022
Seven advocacy groups discuss why this Wednesday’s Chicago Ride of Silence is important
The 20th annual Chicago Ride of Silence is an opportunity to mourn and reflect on lost lives, part of a global movement to honor people killed and injured on bicycles, and demand changes to keep bike riders safe
May 13, 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
Advocates urge CMAP’s transportation committee to reject road expansion projects
A number of advocacy organizations are urging Chicagoland regional transportation agencies to halt plans to add additional lanes to expressways and arterial streets.
May 11, 2022
Divvy launches scooters and new pricing, but some members aren’t happy with the latter
It would be much better if the city and Divvy come up with a pricing structure that encourages ridership, rather than suppressing it.
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
Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue
Given it's status as our city's most popular cycling route, it's way past time for the city to turn the entire corridor into a bike-priority street.
May 6, 2022
Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn
The latest victim was barista Nick Parlingayan, 22, fatally struck Wednesday night by a driver who fled the scene.
May 5, 2022
