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How should we respond to the UIC and ProPublica reports on Chicago traffic cameras?
There's no question that the cams are preventing injury and fatality crashes, but Black and Latino motorists and racking up more tickets and suffering financing hardship. Should we reform or abolish it.
January 14, 2022
UIC Study: Speed cams save lives, but drivers from POC communities get more tickets
City officials say they plan to use the findings from the report to improve the program, and note that low-income residents will get a 50 percent discount on traffic tickets starting in March.
January 11, 2022
CDOT plans overhaul of complex Armitage/CortlandAshland/Elston junction
Streetsblog Chicago will continue reporting on this project to help ensure that it results in a net improvement for sustainable transportation.
January 10, 2022
Who should we really be building bikeways for?
A discussion of whether or not "door zone" lanes lanes are terrible yielded an essential truth: To dramatically build bike mode-share, what we need a network of 8-to-80 facilities.
January 10, 2022
The lows and highs of Chicagoland’s 2021 transportation news
It's likely 2022 will bring even more advocacy and direction action around sustainable transportation, and necessary and robust responses from city and state transportation officials.
January 7, 2022
Bakery-fresh CDOT study reaffirms speed cameras are saving lives
The new report compared the changes in crash numbers near speed cameras and citywide between 2012-13 and 2018-2019 and confirmed that collision numbers have stayed relatively low near the cams.
January 6, 2022
Police seek Jeep driver who killed pedestrian at Belmont/Menard on NYE
The person may have been the last person fatally struck in 2021 while walking on Chicago Streets, and was at least the 25th pedestrian fatality of the year.
January 6, 2022
City Colleges of Chicago is providing free Divvy annual memberships to all students
In other collegiate cycling news, Olive-Harvey College is, for the first time, offering an eight-week Bicycle Maintenance and Repair course.
January 5, 2022
Illinois Policy Institute runs a misleading article on Chicago’s 6 mph speed camera rule
The right-wing think tank plays up the program's revenue generation, downplays its safety benefits, and contains plenty of misleading statements and outright misinformation.
January 4, 2022
Governor Pritzker’s latest wrongheaded remarks about highway expansion, annotated
Illinois Public Media host Brian Mackey did a good job of holding Pritzker accountable for the disconnect between the governor's stated climate goals and his highway expansion plans.
January 3, 2022
