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Columbus Park road diet improves safety, CDOT staffers ridicule Block Club coverage
In reality plenty of people are benefitting from the project. And emails show CDOT agreed with us that Block Club's coverage, which asserted that the road diet is "causing traffic jams" despite the data, was absurd.
May 9, 2022
Reckless driver runs red in Illinois Medical District, strikes car, kills man, 33, on sidewalk
The victim was the sixth pedestrian fatality on Chicago streets this year.
May 6, 2022
Map: Where drivers have fatally struck people biking on Chicago’s Milwaukee Avenue
Given it's status as our city's most popular cycling route, it's way past time for the city to turn the entire corridor into a bike-priority street.
May 6, 2022
Divvy hopes new charging stations will reduce VMT needed to maintain the fleet
The Divvy system recently debuted charging stations for electric Divvys. Read more to find out where the first charging stations are located.
May 5, 2022
Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn
The latest victim was barista Nick Parlingayan, 22, fatally struck Wednesday night by a driver who fled the scene.
May 5, 2022
A tale of two cities: What cycling in Vienna and Budapest reminded me about Chicago
Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.
May 4, 2022
Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception
The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.
May 3, 2022
Mutiny at the meeting: Lakeview neighbors hijack Metra hearing to voice UP-N concerns
“We’ve been growing, gentrifying, changing the North Side, and you’re endangering everything we have done,” said one neighbor.
May 2, 2022
Loved ones of Gerardo Marciales urge the city to fix dangerous DLSD intersections
We must learn from stories like his and implement policies and street designs that prioritize human life over convenient driving.
April 29, 2022
How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?
What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?
April 28, 2022
