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Residents Say What They Think Could Improve Transit and Bicycling in Belmont Cragin
As someone who went to high school in Belmont Cragin and spent a lot of time in the neighborhood, issues of transportation there are important to me. There wasn’t a week that went by that I wasn’t taking the Fullerton bus to get to school or walking around the neighborhood with friends. My senior year in high school, I co-facilitated an after-school writing program at another high school in the neighborhood, and I would walk two miles to get there.
August 30, 2019
Too Much Parking Makes Neighborhoods Less Equitable, but eTOD Can Help
While excessive parking can jack up housing costs, affordable TOD can reduce transportation expenses for low-income and working-class residents.
March 8, 2019
CDOT Is Trying to Convince CMAP to Add the O’Hare Express to ON TO 2050
Adding Elon Musk's pipe dream to the regional plan would make the project potentially eligible to receive federal funds and approvals.
February 1, 2019
CMAP Emphasizes Investment in Underserved Communities in ON TO 2050 Plan
According to CMAP, "Regions that are more inclusive have longer, stronger periods of prosperity and shorter periods of stagnation."
October 10, 2018
CMAP: Federal Housing Programs Won’t Fund Walkable Neighborhoods
According to a new CMAP report, federal guidelines generally discourage mixed-use development.
May 19, 2017
City Hopes to Use State Law Allowing Transit TIFs to Rebuild CTA Red Line
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office has started crafting an ordinance that would activate a state law allowing the city to create "transit TIF districts" – officially called Transit Facility Improvement Areas – around four transit projects, according to the Chicago Tribune. Boundaries could be drawn up to a half mile around Chicago’s Union Station (to fund the improvements recommended in its master plan), the CTA’s North Side Main Line, the CTA’s Red Line extension to 130th, and the CTA’s Blue Line Congress branch modernization and possible extension.
August 11, 2016
New County Policy Supports Active Transportation, Lacks Specific Goals
Cook County's new "Long Range Transportation Plan," released last week, is the first such document published since 1940 and is a policy platform that will guide decisions about transportation spending for the next 24 years. To the credit of county officials, the plan voices strong support for improving walking, biking, and transit, which represents a major change for a governmental body that has focused on facilitating driving for many decades. However, I'd argue that the document, called "Connecting Cook County," falls short of being a plan when it come to setting concrete goals for promoting sustainable transportation, and that's a missed opportunity.
July 19, 2016
Will CMAP Stop Prioritizing Increasing Road Capacity in Next Regional Plan?
This is the second post in a two-part series on the upcoming ON TO 2050 regional plan. The first discussed public outreach goals for the new plan, and this one critiques its predecessor, GO TO 2040.
March 10, 2016
CMAP Launches Input Process for ON TO 2050, Chicago’s Next Regional Plan
This is part one of a two-part series about ON TO 2050, the new comprehensive regional plan for Chicagoland.
March 8, 2016
CNT: Funding Not Spent According to Community Plans Has Less Impact
The Center for Neighborhood Technology, a local community planning think tank, said that municipalities and public agencies are failing to follow their own plans. They're investing public funds for the region in economic development and transportation projects in undeveloped areas or away from train stations.
December 4, 2015