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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
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
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
Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception
The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.
May 3, 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
City launches income-based traffic fine pilot, halving the fees for low-income residents
Eligible residents can also eliminate all debt by paying off the original fine on tickets received within the last three years.
April 27, 2022
Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M to pay people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council
If you're unhappy that your tax dollars will be used to pay people to drive, now you know to hold accountable.
April 27, 2022
