Jefferson Park

If speed was a factor in these crashes, having fewer travel lanes would have encouraged the drivers to obey the speed limit, and perhaps these tragedies could have been averted.

If a CDOT proposal for a road diet with protected bike lanes hadn't been blocked by local drivers led by an aldermanic candidate, Travers might still be alive.

So far this year, our city has already seen more fatalities than any year since 2012, and there are still more than two months left in 2020.

One day a year, land that's usually used for car storage is transformed into vibrant public space.

The victim was the first pedestrian fatality of 2019.

Residents met with Active Trans staff to discuss ideas to improve pedestrian, cycling, and transit conditions on the Far Northwest Side.

Today a neighborhood organization in the Jefferson Park neighborhood is highlighting the fact that public space used for storing cars can also be put to more productive uses.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the former owners of the influential, recently shuttered Rapid Transit cycle shops are launching a new store called Cosmic Bikes in the Jefferson Park. They plan to open the shop at 4641 North Milwaukee by the end of April.

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