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The right and wrong ways to write a postmortem about car-free Lincoln Avenue
Block Club's Alex V. Hernandez did a well-researched and illuminating article on the subject. Inside Publications' Peter Von Buol, not so much.
May 20, 2025
Despite what Inside Publications NIMBY newspapers claim, HOLS board member is not advocating for permanently closing Lincoln to cars
But according to HOLS member Rony Islam, out of 1,400 survey respondents, "69 percent... strongly support a greater role of pedestrianization on the 4700 block."
May 1, 2025
Yet more garbage “journalism” from Inside Publications NIMBY newspapers, this time falsely arguing PBLs are bad for bus riders
Streetsblog Chicago has fact-checked anti-bikeway articles from the local "Not In My Back Yard" neighborhood newspaper chain Inside Publications many, many times. Their publisher / editor Ronald Roenigk should make a donation to us for all the free publicity he's gotten.
April 8, 2025
Uptown funk? Some drivers are bummed about CDOT’s proposal to convert parking to PBLs on Clark N. of Montrose. They shouldn’t worry.
Good news: The Chicago Department of Transportation has proposed extending the Graceland Greenway protected bike lanes on Clark Street further north into Uptown to the Andersonville retail district.
March 18, 2025
Check yourself before you Roenigk yourself: The News-Star’s most ridiculous article yet against the Granville proposal
Editor Ronald Roenigk argues that Granville Avenue must allow crosstown traffic because it's halfway between Devon and Peterson, which "are a mile apart." They're actually a half-mile apart.
November 1, 2024
Inside Publications NIMBY newspapers strike back, with another screed against the Granville Avenue Traffic Safety project
Here at Streetsblog Chicago, one of my tasks is to write rebuttals when other local news outlets get the story wrong on walk/bike/transit projects. The local Not In My Back Yard-style newspaper chain Inside Publications (read about their previous anti-sustainable transportation crusades here) keeps sending work my way.
October 28, 2024
When it comes to following the basic rules of journalism, Inside Publications’ anti-bike editor is a Roenigk-ade
Ronald Roenigk's articles are often inflammatory and misleading. And even if he knows he got the facts wrong, he may not run a correction.
September 24, 2024
