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The Active Transportation Alliance assesses CDOT’s 2020 Slow Streets program
ATA provides its assessment of the 2020 Slow Streets program, which made room for safe, socially-distanced walking and biking during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 27, 2021
Leland Slow Street reopens, and two more routes are opening in the 5th Ward tomorrow
Once the sun comes out, we'll surely see lots of people, including plenty of families and kids, enjoying these safer, traffic calmed streets again.
May 27, 2021
CTA hopes to coax back riders with a new program to spruce up 125 stations this year
Today the agency announced Refresh & Renew, a program to deep-clean and upgrade 90 percent of the system's rail stations.
May 20, 2021
Loop Alliance April report shows a continued, alarming rise in downtown parking levels
The report reveals increased personal car use has continued on a distressingly steep rise, even while foot traffic and office building occupancy remained on par or below March levels.
May 17, 2021
After United Center vaxx site becomes drive-through only, can you still walk to it?
After the stadium vaccination site switches back to drive-through only on May 8, will you be able to access it on foot? It's not clear yet.
April 27, 2021
Bike-share equity in the time of coronavirus
How did bike-share companies' COVID-19 response impact access to their cycles and bike-share equity?
April 20, 2021
Union Pacific finally caves, agrees to start collecting fares on Metra trains again
Was it really safety that motivated Union Pacific to refuse to have its conductors collect fares until long after conductors on Metra-controlled lines went back to walking the trains, or rather a desire to force Metra to the bargaining table?
April 19, 2021
How will new Chicagoland stimulus transit cash be spent? We won’t know until fall
When it comes to transit funding from the most recent federal COVID-19 stimulus package, the common sentiment from transit agencies in Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana can be summed up as “wait and see.”
April 16, 2021
Trib’s Steve Chapman: Transit use is down right now, so we should never invest in it again
In the bizarro world of the the right-leaning Chicago Tribune, the lessons of the pandemic are that we should instead be putting more focus on car-based transportation.
April 12, 2021
Sun-Times’ Laura Washington is right: We all need to start riding transit again
If we want local public transportation to survive the COVID-19 pandemic intact, we've got to be the change we want to see.
April 7, 2021
