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Get your electric kicks on Route 66: Test-riding one of the Chicago Avenue e-buses
Customers seem to love the smoother, quieter ride on the new buses, so much so that some of them said they'd be willing to pay a higher fare to help electrify the whole fleet.
April 20, 2021
RTA survey: Most people who stopped commuting by transit during COVID plan to return
About 80 percent of respondents who weren't riding buses and trains on a frequent basis said they planned to to return to their pre-pandemic commuting habits once worries about the coronavirus ease.
April 15, 2021
Here’s how to provide input on new West Side Divvy station locations
This year CDOT and Lyft will be expanding the system further into the West side, and once again they're looking for feedback from local residents on where the new stations should go.
April 14, 2021
How could we use new bike-ped bridges to improve safety and connectivity?
Here are some proposals for improving crossings of waterways in various parts of Chicago.
April 14, 2021
Logan pedestrian fatality highlights how IDOT control of Chicago streets makes us less safe
This horrifying incident has laid bare how the Illinois Department of Transportation having final say on changes to many Chicago streets makes our city more dangerous.
April 13, 2021
The new Chicago Blueprint for Fair Housing aims to reduce residential segregation
The city calls the document a plan to address the city’s housing segregation, disparities in access to opportunity, and history of inequitable investment.
April 13, 2021
Trib’s Steve Chapman: Transit use is down right now, so we should never invest in it again
In the bizarro world of the the right-leaning Chicago Tribune, the lessons of the pandemic are that we should instead be putting more focus on car-based transportation.
April 12, 2021
Firing of cops who shot Ariel Roman on CTA would be a step in the right direction
The Ariel Roman case starkly shows that police enforcement of minor rule-breaking is the wrong approach.
April 9, 2021
DOJ lights a fire under Chicago officials to speed up accessible pedestrian signal installation
On Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice moved to intervene in a private disability discrimination suit against the city.
April 9, 2021
Sun-Times’ Laura Washington is right: We all need to start riding transit again
If we want local public transportation to survive the COVID-19 pandemic intact, we've got to be the change we want to see.
April 7, 2021
