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Rendering of the new pedestrian bridge over DuSable Lake Shore Drive at 43rd Street. Strong Towns Chicago hopes to paint a mural on a nearby wall. Image: CDOT

Strong Towns Chicago wants to make our city more people-friendly and fiscally sound

By Hunter Heyman | Nov 23, 2022 | No Comments

Through community, education, and activism Strong Towns Chicago strives to create an environment where everyone can come together to learn about creating positive change in our city.

A rendering of the Austin streetscape. What's the point of alternating raised bike lanes with non-protected stretches?

Austin streetscape only gets bikeway protection half-right

By John Greenfield | Nov 17, 2022 | No Comments

A bikeway corridor that includes a mix of raised and non-protected lanes is still essentially a non-protected bike route.

Why are sidewalks often clogged with slush when the streets are spotless? Photo: Better Streets Chicago

Takin’ it to the (over-salted) streets: City Hall rally will demand sidewalk plowing parity

By John Greenfield | Oct 31, 2022 | No Comments

The demonstration will take place Wednesday at 9 a.m. on the first floor of the municipal headquarters, 121 N. La Salle St.

A Loop Link express bus corridor station. Due to factors like the lack of prepaid boarding and enforcement, the corridor has only resulted in modest bus speed gains. Photo: John Greenfield

At Mobility Collaborative meeting, advocates staff pushed CTA, CDOT to implement robust BRT

By Igor Studenkov | Oct 5, 2022 | No Comments

This post focuses on the Chicago Mobility Collective breakout session that focused on street design to improve bus service. Streetsblog may run coverage of other breakout sessions that focused on pedestrian and bike matters in the future. The meeting took place during the same time as the ghost bike installation for youth mentor Sam Bell, […]

The Clark & Randolph Divvy station. Image: Google Maps

What’s going on with Divvy availability? Let’s look at the data.

By Steven Lucy | Sep 30, 2022 | No Comments

Over a roughly six-week period, at any given point about one in five stations has no "classic" bikes (the original blue non-electric cycles) for rent and one fifth of docked bikes were flagged as broken.

A Divvy station in Chicago's Grand Crossing neighborhood. While the blue non-electric bikes don't carry per-minute use charges, in many outlying neighborhoods only the electric bikes are available. Photo: John Greenfield

La Spata’s resolution turns up heat on CDOT, Divvy to address pricing equity issues

By John Greenfield | Aug 4, 2022 | No Comments

Divvy is a fantastic sustainable transportation system, but it's not only crucial that it stays solvent, it also needs to be accessible to Chicagoans in all parts of the city, from all walks of life.

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