Metropolitan Planning Council

Reforms to the city's traffic fine structure should make it less regressive, and increased funding for mental health services could be a step in the right direction for improving transit safety.

We must stop accepting death as the cost of mobility on our auto-dominated transportation system. 

While the 15-minute city is a great goal for Chicago, that alone will not guarantee equitable outcomes.

The increased investment in walking, biking, and transit is great, but these investments are at risk of being outweighed by an increase in roadway expansion.

Latin American cities can provide insights on how to build bike culture. Mobility experts from Mexico City and Bogotá shared how their cities are creating a bike culture.

The Active Transportation Alliance and Metropolitan Planing Council say the plan lacks specifics and needs more transparency.

30+ years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, many agencies never even created an ADA transition plan, let alone fixing all their access barriers.

Chicago-area transit agencies and advocates are generally taking a glass-half-full view of the news, noting that in the short term the subsidy will prevent a "beyond-doomsday" scenario.

After the initial euphoria of Saturday's election result wore off, Streetsblog Chicago reached out to local transportation leaders to get their take on what the Biden-Harris administration will mean for sustainable transportation, based on the candidates' platform and statements. We also asked these experts and advocates, as well as our readers, what they'd like to see the federal government do for transportation in the coming years, keeping in mind the current economic headwinds.