Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Boston

Public agencies will spend more than $100 million to to add 2,100 parking spaces to this parking crater. Image: Google Maps

Coming Soon to Boston’s Massive Parking Crater: More Subsidized Parking

By Angie Schmitt | Mar 6, 2017 | No Comments

Quick -- what should a city do to improve access to a rapidly developing area near a BRT station? In Boston, officials have settled on an expensive plan to subsidize driving and traffic.

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Boston Wants to Lower Its Speed Limit to 20 MPH — But Can’t

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 29, 2016 | No Comments

wenty is plenty in Boston, according to its elected officials. The City Council voted unanimously this week to lower the default speed limit on most residential streets to 20 mph — and not for the first time. Speeding is the number one complaint council members hear from residents. And on Boston’s narrow streets, packed with pedestrians, […]

Cool Boston-Area Infrastructure That’d Be Great to See in Chicago

By John Greenfield | Sep 22, 2015 | 6 Comments

[This piece also runs in “Checkerboard City,” John’s transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] When Pete Stidman, the former director of the Boston Cyclists Union, visited Chicago for a bike conference a couple of summers ago, I let him crash on my futon. When I visited Beantown last month, Stidman, who’s […]

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The Politically-Driven, Koch-Backed Campaign to Undermine Boston Transit

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 20, 2015 | No Comments

Boston’s MBTA has been having a tough year. Following a disastrous winter season marked by extreme weather and service disruptions, the agency has been inundated with charges of mismanagement. While the MBTA has its flaws, the charges against it don’t stem from a good government campaign so much as an ideologically-driven assault, filled with exaggerations and lies and backed by groups […]

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Massachusetts Official: Boston’s Winter Cyclists “Living in the Wrong City”

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 19, 2014 | No Comments

Bostonians making polite requests for a clear path on one of the city’s key bike routes were met with disdain from the state agency responsible for maintaining the paths. Here’s how one unnamed official from the Massachusetts’ Department of Conservation and Recreation responded in an internal email thread to a message from a Boston resident […]

Report: Chicago Falling Behind Peer Cities on Transit-Oriented Growth

By Steven Vance | Jul 9, 2013 | 20 Comments

Transit-oriented development in the Chicago region is falling behind cities like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, according to a report released in May by the Center for Neighborhood Technology, a local “think and do tank.” In “Transit-Oriented Development in the Chicago Region” [PDF], CNT warns that Chicago’s failure to focus housing and jobs near transit is […]