The Black Power Bike Ride: A Journey Through the South Side
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Cyclists of color chose bicycles as their means of transportation because "for marginalized groups, cycling has historically been a political act."
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Englewood
Englewood Line Trail Could Create Recreation and Job Opportunities for Residents
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The Englewood Line Nature Trail, a proposed two-mile elevated greenway, would run along an unused rail embankment between 58th and 59th streetsm from Hoyne to Wallace avenues.
The Divvy Perimeter Ride: Checking Out Bike-Share in Outlying Communities
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[This piece also ran in Checkerboard City, John’s transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] This year’s Divvy bike-share expansion, beefing up the system from 300 docking stations to 476, has moved at warp speed. As of yesterday, 168 of the new stations have been installed since mid-April; The remaining […]
Hit-and-Run Drivers Killed Pedestrians in Englewood and Bridgeport on Friday
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Last week two different people lost their lives to hit-and-run drivers, in two different South Side neighborhoods, on the same day. Both of the drivers are still at large. On Friday at about 3:40 a.m., a southbound motorist fatally struck Timothy Jones, 41, of the 200 block of South Sacramento, in the 6000 block of […]
Englewood Flyover, Now Under Construction, Will Reduce Metra Delays
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The Englewood Flyover is a bridge construction project near 63rd and State Streets that will eventually elevate the tracks for 78 weekday Metra Rock Island trains, so they don’t cross tracks for 60 daily freight and Amtrak trains at the same grade. Work began last September, and construction this weekend will close the Dan Ryan Expressway […]
Can Transportation Options Energize Englewood?
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[This article also appears in Checkerboard City, John Greenfield’s weekly column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] Most Chicagoans associate Englewood with poverty and crime, but local advocates and activists see it as a neighborhood with untapped potential, with excellent access to public transportation being one of the keys to its […]