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Building a 500-car garage in the West Loop is counterproductive to fighting climate change
A focus on car storage ignores the true costs of car-based infrastructure. Climate change poses an existential threat, and adding more parking for cars ignores that reality.
September 11, 2020
Which is best: Bird, Lime, or Spin? The “Chicago Scooters” tweeter test-rode all three
The person behind the Chicago Scooters Twitter account recently test-rode the three brands and discussed their findings with Streetsblog.
September 10, 2020
Converting parking to people space on 75th helps reenergize Black-owned restaurant strip
The new 75th Street Boardwalk, located between Calumet and Indiana avenues is available for use by eleven local restaurants and businesses.
September 10, 2020
Chicago’s spike in cycling fatalities continues with first e-Divvy death on Near West Side
The latest fatality was the seventh on-street Chicago bike fatality, and the second bike-share death in our city.
September 9, 2020
Here’s an update on the Red and Purple Modernization project a year into the project
All of the Belmont flyover columns were finished this summer, and temporary stations are being built in Uptown and Edgewater to allow for service as new ones are built.
September 8, 2020
Crystal Lake, RTA seek community feedback for transit-orientated development plan
Crystal Lake is working with the Regional Transportation Authority to create a Strategic Action Plan, which would guide community development and transportation planning around the suburb's two Metra stations.
September 8, 2020
Chicago lock-to rule means scooters are parked on bike racks. Is that a problem or NBD?
The downside of the lock-to strategy is that scooters are taking up space on our city's limited number of bike parking fixtures, and that really annoys some cyclists.
September 4, 2020
There were at least two injury crashes this week near Belmont/LSD, a collision hotspot
It's not clear exactly why this area is a problem spot, but it appears that better guard rail protection is needed.
September 4, 2020
Ramirez-Rosa’s office recovers 22 more bikes CPD confiscated from racial justice protesters
Recovery efforts to reunite cyclists with their bikes taken by police at protests this summer slowly continue as alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa's 35th Ward office leads the charge.
September 3, 2020
Northcenter Town Square highlights the benefits of turning parking into people space
The project took land that was mostly used for storing privately owned metal boxes and turned it into a wonderful neighborhood amenity.
September 3, 2020
