Is this the beginning of prioritizing buses on Chicago’s streets?
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Better Streets for Buses meetings have started, and ELPC calls for five bus rapid transit routes in five years.
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Chicago Policy
Shared Mobility Action Agenda aims to make non-private-car modes handy for all by 2030
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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.
Lightfoot banning teens from Millennium Park is the wrong public safety approach
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Instead of shutting youth out of public spaces, we need to be designing more public spaces around them, and investing in resources that will help them thrive.
Seven advocacy groups discuss why this Wednesday’s Chicago Ride of Silence is important
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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
BMW driver killed Concepcion Lopez, 82, at bus stop on Peterson Ave. in West Ridge
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Peterson is a five-lane speedway, bus stop fatalities are common in Chicago, and BMW drivers are the motorists most likely to get in crashes.
Video shows Nick Parlingayan was dragged 50 feet, residents demand safety upgrades
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Greater protection for people on bicycles is imperative, such as robust protected bike lanes with concrete curbs, Jersey barriers, or rigid bollards.