Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Brendan Reilly

Reilly to CDOT: Please Fix Dearborn Protected Bike Lane’s Lousy Pavement

By John Greenfield | Aug 10, 2016 | 8 Comments

Downtown alderman Brendan Reilly is known as the man who tried to get the Kinzie protected bike lanes removed, but he recently racked up some bike lane karma. Shaun Jacobsen, the urban planner behind the transportation blog Transitized, wrote to Reilly to about poor pavement conditions on the Dearborn two-way protected bike lane. The alderman […]

Ald. Reilly Has a Responsible Approach to Off-Street Parking

By Steven Vance | Nov 6, 2015 | 15 Comments

When it comes to parking management in Chicago, there have been a couple of encouraging developments recently. In September, City Council passed a beefed-up revision of the transit-oriented development ordinance, which makes it easier than ever to build dense, parking-lite developments near train stations. And, recently, Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) made some very sensible statements […]

O’Shea Can You See? Formerly Anti-Bike Alderman Now Wants Divvy

By John Greenfield | Oct 9, 2015 | 2 Comments

DNAinfo’s Ted Cox provided a nice write-up of an entertaining discussion of bike issues that took place at yesterday’s City Council budget hearings. You should definitely check out the original article, but here’s some additional background and analysis. It’s great that aldermen on the Far South Side are clamoring for Divvy stations in their wards. […]

CDOT & Reilly Reach a Consensus on Kinzie: The Protected Lanes Will Remain

By John Greenfield | Sep 1, 2015 | 10 Comments

There’s some great news about Chicago’s oldest protected bike lanes. Yesterday, the Chicago Department of Transportation confirmed that the Kinzie Street PBLs will stay in place for the foreseeable future, despite an effort by downtown alderman Brendan Reilly to force CDOT to remove them. The department installed the Kinzie lanes in 2011, not long after Mayor Rahm […]

Pedicabbers Plan to Defy Loop Ban by Attending City’s Bike to Work Rally

By John Greenfield | Jun 19, 2014 | 6 Comments

Tomorrow’s Bike to Work Rally, 7 to 9 a.m. in Daley Plaza, will celebrate the act of using pedal power to get to your place of business. Mayor Rahm Emanuel may show up to give a speech touting Chicago’s strides towards becoming a more bike-friendly city. However, due to the city’s new pedicab ordinance, which […]

Would NYC’s Midtown Biz Leaders Write Off the Idea of a Car-Free Mag Mile?

By John Greenfield | Feb 13, 2014 | 34 Comments

Yesterday’s Active Transportation Alliance announcement submitting 20 streets for consideration as partial or total car-free spaces has already sparked a lively dialogue. Stories in the Tribune, Sun-Times, ABC, and DNAinfo have all examined whether or not the automobile-dominated status quo represents an appropriate allocation of public space. The boldest proposal on the Active Trans list […]