Transportation

Mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green sees the recent spike in violent crime and homelessness on the CTA as a public health emergency. He shared his plan to improve safety on the system.

After the announcement of Chicago Works in April 2021, advocacy groups like the Active Transportation Alliance and the Metropolitan Planning Council voiced concerns that the plan might simply advance the car-centric status quo.

Alderperson Daniel La Spata recently hosted a bike tour of the 1st Ward to highlighting some of the bike lane projects his office has worked on during his first term.

Rankings are tabulated through a blend of federally-available data on ridership, fatalities, and spending on biking and walking per capita, and extensive surveys of state DOTs.

Metra’s proposal to discontinue systemwide day passes, three-zone day passes, and a $100 systemwide Super Saver Monthly Pass in favor of zone-based single-day and monthly passes faced such as strong backslash during the October 12 meeting of the Metra Board of Directors that the press release announcing the proposed new budget framed it as just one of many possibilities.

I wrote at the time of the sentence, "Hopefully voters will remember this case [about] six years from now in 2022, when William H. Hooks will again be up for reelection." That time is now.

Robert Earnshaw, a Freedom of Information Act officer for the Chicago Police Department and Chicago mayoral hopeful, reached out to Streetsblog with his mayoral transportation plan.

Founded in 1985 as the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, the ATA works to improve conditions and increase opportunities for bicycling, walking and transit.

SlowStreets, a new advocacy groups, aims to pedestrianize Clark Street from Forster Avenue to Catalpa Avenue in Andersonville.