Walking

Police are seeking the driver of a dark gray BMW with side and front-end damage.

In what looks to be a stunning miscarriage of justice, a jury acquitted the taxi driver, who struck and killed the pedestrian while speeding at a terrifying velocity in 2012.

If done correctly, improvements to bike/ped infrastructure have the potential to break down some of the barriers that 20th Century redlining built.

It wasn't crystal clear from the presentation earlier this month which "near-term" improvements are slated for construction this summer, so here's a recap.

Reducing the number of serious and fatal crashes in the areas that are most impacted by traffic violence, without unfairly targeting neighborhoods of color, is going to require extensive community input and buy-in.

The driver was cited for driving without a license, negligence, and failure to yield to a pedestrian in the roadway.

The driver was cited for failure to exercise due care for a pedestrian in the roadway, according to police.

The five-way intersection of Belmont, Western, and Clybourn, as well as the stretch of Western between the Chicago River and Lane Tech High, is friendlier to pedestrians and a lot less gloomy thanks to the just-completed project to remove the nearly 60-year-old Riverview flyover. However, the street makeover missed some opportunities to make the corridor safer and more accessible to all road users, maintaining the overwhelmingly car-centric nature of the corridor.

At yesterday’s public meeting on the North Lake Shore Drive reconstruction the public got a better look at what the Illinois and Chicago departments of transportation have planned for the coastal highway.