Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about County Policy

While the bike lanes will calm traffic and help organize the street mid-block, the road will balloon to five lanes for drivers at stoplight intersections.

Skokie’s Crawford bike lanes, passing by 5-lane intersections, won’t be low-stress

By Courtney Cobbs | Feb 24, 2022 | No Comments

Skokie aims to be more appealing for cyclists. But a proposed redesign of Crawford Avenue misses the mark in terms of a design that will meaningfully grow the number of people traveling by bike.

Catching a bus from the 95th/Dan Ryan Red Line station to the Altgeld Gardens housing project. Photo: Jeff Zoline

Advocates: RTA must overcome “bureaucratic anxiety,” prescribe bold action to save transit

By John Greenfield | Feb 22, 2022 | No Comments

"Transformational ideas may be controversial, but that is not an excuse to avoid them," the letter states. "We need serious and specific proposals to maintain the foundational roles transit plays."

A Pace paratransit bus in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. Photo: Igor Studenkov

Pace teams up with Uber to launch paratransit expansion in DuPage County

By Igor Studenkov | Feb 9, 2022 | No Comments

Pace board members argued that using ride-hail to fill in the gaps in paratransit service will complement, not cannibalize, existing service.

Rendering of the proposed 103rd Street station, ocated immediately east of Harlem Avenue in Chicago Ridge. Image: Pace

Take a survey to weigh in on Pace’s proposed Tri-State Tollway express services

By Igor Studenkov | Feb 7, 2022 | No Comments

Pace is inviting the public to give input on the proposed suburb-to-suburb express service expansion along I-294 / the Tri-State Tollway.

What did the owner of BFF Bikes actually say after her shop was burglarized twice?

By John Greenfield | Dec 25, 2021 | No Comments

Feel free to take your bike business elsewhere if you have a serious problem with something Forsyth said on Fox & Friends. But don't boycott BFF based on something she *didn't* say.

Police say they know which driver killed Tiffany Borre. Why hasn’t he been charged?

By John Greenfield | Dec 22, 2021 | No Comments

Despite video footage and DNA evidence linking a suspect to the killing, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office has declined to file charges.

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