Amazon Driver Who Killed Telesfora Escamilla, 84, Charged With Misdemeanors
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The mother of six was fatally struck by a van driver who allegedly ran a stop sign and was driving without a license or insurance.
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Little Village
Comparing Transit Access in Lincoln Park to South Lawndale
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Here’s some info about transit inequality that I had to leave out of this week’s Chicago Reader column about transportation issues that impact local Latino communities, due to space limitations. Alma Zamudio, who earned a BA in urban planning and public administration at UIC, has worked with various Latino housing, labor, and social justice organizations, […]
Residents Want to Ensure the Paseo Trail Won’t Be a Route to Gentrification
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[The Chicago Reader recently launched a new weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership will allow Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We’ll be syndicating a portion of the column on the day it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website […]
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 […]
Man Killed in Little Village Was 3rd Vehicular Homicide Victim of 2014
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View Larger Map The 4000 block of West 26th Street. A Brighton Park man who was beaten and then run over by a motorist early Sunday morning was the third victim of a vehicular homicide this year. On Monday, April 28, Darrell Cooper, 41, intentionally struck and killed Artez McBride, 20, in South Austin following […]
Eyes on the Street: Recent Bike Upgrades in the Loop and on the South Side
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Chicago Department of Transportation crews are continuing their work this summer, building new bikeways and upgrading existing ones. Yesterday, I took a spin around the Loop and the South Side to check out the latest improvements on Randolph, Harrison, California, 33rd, and King. I started out on Upper Randolph, where CDOT recently upgraded the existing […]
Eyes on the Street: Checking Out New Bikeways Across the City
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[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John’s column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] For a bike-infrastructure geek like myself, this is the most exciting time of the year, when the city is in the thick of rolling out the season’s new lanes. Most of the twenty miles of new bikeways […]
Greenway Edged Out in Little Village PB Election, But Could Still Happen
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Earlier this week, I reported that the proposal for a north-south neighborhood greenway in Rogers Park was left off the 49th Ward participatory budgeting ballot, but that bike-priority route is still expected to become a reality. Similarly, 22nd Ward PB voters didn’t elect to fund a proposal for an east-west greenway in the Little Village […]
Driver Who Killed Elderly Pedestrian Claims He Didn’t See Him
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View Larger Map The crash site, from the driver’s perspective. An elderly pedestrian died early Saturday morning after being struck Thursday in Little Village by an SUV driver who claimed he didn’t see the victim. David Vega, 84, of the 2800 block of South Lawndale Avenue, was crossing northbound in the east crosswalk at Landale […]
Marshall Boulevard Redesign Has Drastically Reduced Speeding
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Last night about 30 people showed up to discuss car parking issues on Marshall Boulevard in Little Village, at a meeting hosted by 12th Ward Alderman George Cardenas at the Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy. The redesign of Marshall Boulevard last fall added a protected bike lane on one side of the street and a buffered […]
Tonight: Defend the Marshall Boulevard Redesign
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Tonight the future of the Marshall Boulevard bike lane could be at stake at a community meeting hosted by 12th Ward Alderman George Cardenas. The Marshall Boulevard bike lane was installed last fall and runs from Sacramento Drive in Douglas Park half a mile to 24th Boulevard in Little Village. It consists of a buffered lane […]
CDOT Provides an Update on Efforts to Ensure Divvy System Is Equitable
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Imagine if almost everybody who rode the Chicago Transit Authority, a public transportation system subsidized with taxpayer money, was Caucasian. Denver found itself in an analogous situation last year, when a survey revealed that, in a city where almost half of residents are people of color, 89.9 percent the people using the publicly funded Denver […]