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This post focuses on the Chicago Mobility Collective breakout session that focused on street design to improve bus service. Streetsblog may run coverage of other breakout sessions that focused on pedestrian and bike matters in the future. The meeting took place during the same time as the ghost bike installation for youth mentor Sam Bell, 44, in River West. To highlight Chicago's traffic violence epidemic, some people Zoomed in to the meeting from the memorial using a background with a white bicycle and the words "I'm currently at the ghost bike vigil for another cyclist killed on Chicago streets." Others posted a "Vision Zero Chicago 2022 Report Card" with crash fatality stats. About 140 people attended the meeting altogether. - Ed.

Hermes was at least the eighth child in the Chicago region to be killed by a driver while on foot, bike, or scooter since June.

Chicago mayoral candidate Kam Buckner recently released his transportation platform. Read more to learn more about his plan to address transportation issues facing Chicago.

It's always nice to kick off the weekend with a feel-good story of a win for livable streets.

Chicago, Bike Grid Now is organizing a Bike Bus convergence on the Loop in observance of World Car Free Day, September 22nd.

Changing the status quo will take political courage, and it might inconvenience some drivers, but it will definitely save lives.

Speakers included Ellen Partridge from the Shared-Use Mobility Center, Audrey Wenninkfrom the Metropolitan Planning Council, and Rochelle Jacksonfrom the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council.

Hopefully the new infrastructure will result in higher rates of motorists yielding to pedestrians, as CDOT says was the case on State, and fewer crashes.