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Interview with the lone wolf: Discussing recent Safe Streets wins and bikelash shenanigans with a pro-Archer project rally organizer while he was outnumbered
The numbers changes changed dramatically after 9-to-5-ers arrived. Plus, a video of my unsuccessful attempt to ask anti-Complete Streets 12th Ward aldermanic challenger Claudia Zuno why she always hides her face behind protest signs at the demonstrations.
April 21, 2026
A first look at the dubious “SAVE GRAND AVENUE!” website, created by someone who thinks that ship hasn’t already sailed
April 16, 2026
A brief dispatch from the Archer Safe Streets advocates on Round 19 – count ’em – of their competing rallies with the Archer Guardians NIMBYs
Meanwhile, the Grand Avenue traffic safety project foes announce their own Monday 4-6 PM protests.
April 15, 2026
“Safe Streets: The Comedy Show” contó con la participación de concejales y activista latinxs, y un debate sobre la ‘ciclotroversia’ de Avenida Archer
Traducido por Ruth Rosas.
April 8, 2026
Instead of discussing what Chicago can do to protect vulnerable road users like Violet Harris from reckless drivers, the Tribune lays blame on e-scooters
The death of Violet Harris, 15, is the story of a hit-and-run, probably wrong-way, driver fatally striking a vulnerable road user on an e-scooter, and failing to render aid.
March 26, 2026
Exit interview with former 47th Ward COS Josh Mark: For bike and bus upgrades to be successful, “they need to be thorough and complete.”
Recently, Josh Mark stepped down as chief of staff for the 47th Ward, represented by Ald. Matt Martin. The North Side district contains parts of North Center, Lincoln Square, Uptown, and Lakeview, and Martin is one of Chicago's most sustainable transportation-friendly City Council members. Many walking, biking, transit, and equitable TOD projects have happened in the ward since he took office in May 2019. Especially in recent years when Mark served as COS, he's been a key lieutenant to the alder who helped get those things done.
March 19, 2026
Is SBC “importing support” for the Archer traffic safety project? And Ald. Ramirez says most of the Complete Streets work be finished this spring.
It seems like the average SBC reader was amused by my nickname for "the mostly right-leaning folks using weekly anti-Archer [Avenue traffic safety] project protests as a political hook": "The Make Archer Great Again" (MAGA) posse.
March 16, 2026
Archer Guardians anti-Safe Streets protesters turned today’s Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee meeting into a campaign stop
As you might expect thanks to yesterday's gorgeous weather, the vibe was good at the 13th round of weekly dueling rallies for and against the Archer Avenue traffic safety project rallies in Brighton Park in the 12th Ward. Or at least that was the case according to proponent Alfredo Villadares Jr., who's lived just south of the project area in Gage Park for 37 years.
March 10, 2026
Don’t “Roger that”! A sustainable transportation advocate accidentally crashed Roger Romanelli’s anti-Grand Safe Streets Project press conference
Fulton Market Association Executive Director Roger Romanelli is well-known to longtime Streetsblog Chicago readers as a resident of suburban Hillside who often intervenes in urban sustainable transportation matters. He's usually on the wrong side of these issues, with a decidely car-centric point of view. Most notoriously, his tireless lobbying against the City's Ashland bus rapid transit proposal helped get that project shelved.
March 5, 2026
