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New ‘Induced Demand’ Calculator Shows Exactly How Much Driving Your City’s Highway Expansion Will Encourage
A groundbreaking new calculator gives advocates the tools they need to instantly show the real impacts of proposed highway expansions in their communities — and the experts behind the project hope that transportation agencies will someday be required to use it, too.
October 20, 2021
Kerry Warns Budget Bill Delay Will Hold Global Climate Goals Hostage
Centrist bickering over the size of the Democrats’ budget reconciliation will have dire consequences for key international climate goals, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry warns.
October 19, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Dodge Truancy v. Mercedes Benz E-Class
Today, we’re looking at two spots that might initially seem like opposites: a nostalgic ode to the 1980s NASCAR aesthetic, and a starry-eyed love-letter to an autonomous driving future that America is nowhere near achieving.
October 16, 2021
America’s Most Toxic Car Ads: Aggressively American Edition
We’re finishing off our first round of competition with two ads that give a salute to America … or at least one very specific, aggressively toxic version of it.
October 5, 2021
Affordable housing and a new park in the works for western end of 606 Trail
It would have been better if more had been done to prevent housing displacement in the first place.
October 5, 2021
Join us for a Streetsblog meetup at Handlebar on Wednesday, October 13
Handlebar a cyclist hangout with plentiful bike parking and furniture made from old cycle parts, serving mostly vegetarian offerings with a couple of fish dishes.
October 4, 2021
Congressional Maneuvering Delays Infrastructure Bill
Congress was forced to delay a vote on a bill that would have reauthorized the nation’s major transportation programs last night, throwing the future of sustainable-transport advocates’ priorities into doubt.
October 1, 2021
Courier proposes Neighborhood Greenway on Belle Plaine for ghost kitchen access
A Streetsblog reader proposes a new greenway in the 47th ward
October 1, 2021
Illinois traffic deaths were at a 5-year high in 2020. Here’s how to address the problem.
We must stop accepting death as the cost of mobility on our auto-dominated transportation system.
September 29, 2021
Disability rights group Access Living and others call for transit ambassadors on CTA
A coalition of forty community groups and civic organizations in Chicago and suburban Cook County have given their support for the creation of a transit ambassador program for the CTA.
September 28, 2021
