Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Lori Lightfoot

Participants will be given single-speed bikes (not this particular model), which work fine for flat Chicago and are easier to maintain than most bikes with multiple gears. Photo: John Greenfield

CDOT releases more details on the “Bike Chicago” free bicycle program

By John Greenfield | Jul 11, 2022 | No Comments

Update 7/12/22, 11:00 AM: CDOT provided the following info to Streetsblog about what kind of bikes will be given away: “The bikes are the Fyxation Pixel in various sizes and colors, both the step-through and the standard model, the State Azure and the State Ellison, both in the single-speed version. The city has not committed to using […]

The aftermath of the high-speed crash that killed pedestrian Malinda Massey, 52, last September in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood. Photo: Chicago Fire Department

These 16 alderpersons narrowly won the committee vote to let people drive at deadly speeds

By John Greenfield | Jun 21, 2022 | No Comments

Tomorrow the legislation will go before the full City Council, including the 19 alders who didn't weigh in today, and hopefully it will be defeated.

Image from the Collected Communities Ordinance fact sheet from Elevated Chicago

Chicago’s proposed Equitable TOD ordinance would fight segregation and car-depedency

By John Greenfield | Jun 3, 2022 | No Comments

The Lori Lightfoot administration hopes to spur the development of more affordable, parking-lite housing near transit with the proposed "Connected Communities Ordinance."

A CTA bus driver on Inner Lake Shore Drive. Photo: John Greenfield

How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?

By John Greenfield | Apr 28, 2022 | No Comments

What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?

A traffic jam on the Kennedy Expressway. The City Council just voted to use your tax money to fund more of this. Photo: John Greenfield

Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M to pay people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council

By John Greenfield | Apr 27, 2022 | No Comments

If you're unhappy that your tax dollars will be used to pay people to drive, now you know to hold accountable.

The Bloomingdale Trail, opened in summer 2015. One of the goals of the climate plan is to "improve air quality by expanding the city’s walk, bike, and transit options." Photo: John Greenfield

Lightfoot’s Climate Action Plan calls for “a zero-emission transportation network”

By John Greenfield | Apr 22, 2022 | No Comments

The city is billing the plan as a "community-informed plan to mitigate climate-change impacts and position Chicago as a job-creator and economic leader in new economy."

A mockup of the Chicago of the Chicago Moves gas or transit card, with Lightfoot's name on it. Image via WTTW

This week in gas-pandering: Wilson plans 3rd giveaway, Lightfoot’s gas cards advance

By John Greenfield | Apr 21, 2022 | No Comments

Come on, Chicago politicians, when it comes to sucking up to motorists, let's not have a race to the bottom.

Gas-pandering update: Alders oppose Lightfoot’s gas cards, Wilson announcing candidacy

By John Greenfield | Apr 8, 2022 | No Comments

Local politicians trying to win votes by subsidizing driving is a hot topic right now. Here are the latest development in this deeply problematic trend.

Platform screen doors on the Copenhagen Metro. Photo: Wikipedia

Another person was pushed onto ‘L’ tracks. It’s time for CTA to pilot platform barriers.

By John Greenfield | Apr 6, 2022 | No Comments

CTA workers and riders shouldn't have to worry that they might wind up being pushed onto the third rail, or in the path of an oncoming train.

A bus on Milwaukee Avenue seen from the sky

Lightfoot’s “Chicago Moves” would give gas or transit cash to eligible Chicagoans this spring and summer

By Courtney Cobbs | Apr 1, 2022 | No Comments

The disparity between how much Lightfoot is proposing to spend to subsidize driving over transit is perplexing.

Don’t pander to drivers with gas tax holidays and giveaways. Help them drive less instead.

By John Greenfield | Mar 25, 2022 | No Comments

Let's see politicians take bold actions to make walking, transit, and biking practical and attractive alternatives to paying more at the pump, instead of the current "Gas-bagging."

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