Coverage of last night’s Ride of Silence honoring fallen cyclists (ABC, WGN) Block Club looks at potential bus priority streets from the city’s Better Streets for Buses initiative 4 injured in crash at Addison/Kimball in Irving Park after speeding driver runs red light (ABC) CTA bus driver involved in crash at Lawrence/Marine in Uptown Wednesday […]
There are four types of drivers in U.S. communities, a new analysis argues, and transportation leaders need to adopt distinct strategies to influence each group’s behavior on the road.
Police inventories the object, which may have been alcohol or illegal drugs, and the motorist was given a blood alcohol content test, but he still has not been charged with a DUI.
World Economic Forum looks at how Chicagoland’s car-dependence negatively impacts social inclusion Raising the tax on ride-hail to fund the CTA is one campaign promise Lightfoot kept (WBEZ) CPD possibly thwarts CTA crime after man arrested, gun recovered near 87th Street Red Line stop (ABC) In response to Chicago bike death epidemic, National Law Review […]
Call it the forgotten pandemic: road fatalities surged by double-digit percentages, including a significant increase in deaths outside of cars, in 2021, according to a new report issued Tuesday by federal authorities.
There are many ways to screw up shared mobility. So hopefully the action agenda will focus on shared modes that actually decrease emissions, rather than exacerbate climate change.
Controversial new ward map approved with 16 Black, 14 Latino, 1 Asian ward, plus wild gerrymandering (Block Club) More than 1,000 people filled the streets for Chicago abortion rights rally last weekend (Block Club) School bus driver fatally strikes 3-year-old boy in northwest-suburban Cary (ABC) Motorcyclist dies after collision with ambulance in Waukegan (NBC) Police: […]
Cook County’s review of the first full year of the Fair Transit South Cook confirmed some of what Streetsblog Chicago’s earlier dive into Metra ridership numbers suggested.
Instead of shutting youth out of public spaces, we need to be designing more public spaces around them, and investing in resources that will help them thrive.