Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Neighborhood Greenways

Here’s How the Wood Street Greenway Could Better Prioritize Bicycling

By Steven Vance | Jun 17, 2016 | 2 Comments

Over the past few years the city has built a handful of “neighborhood greenways,” projects that involve small changes to side streets that can have a big impact in making them more bikeable, while connecting residential areas to the wider network of bike lanes. If the Chicago Department of Transportation picks up the pace on building these bikeways, […]

Rotterdam’s Boulevards Demonstrate How to Make Chicago’s Bike-Friendly

By Steven Vance | May 27, 2016 | 6 Comments

I’ve discovered few similarities between the city of Rotterdam, where I’ve been living for seven weeks, and Chicago. The most striking similarity is the nearly identical layout of the boulevard streets. While biking from my apartment in Rotterdam towards the cool neighborhood of Witte de With, I realized that as I was cycling on the side […]

Active Trans: Rahm Should Aim for 100 Miles of Bike Lanes Again, Not 50

By Steven Vance | Oct 14, 2015 | 13 Comments

Last week at a press event celebrating the installation of 103 miles of buffered and protected bike lanes, Mayor Rahm Emanuel promised to build 50 miles of new bike lanes, including PBLs, over the next four years. The Active Transportation Alliance’s new “Bikeways for All” campaign, launched on Monday, urges the mayor to double that goal. In […]

Roger That! Low-Stress, North-South Bike Route Planned for Rogers Park

By John Greenfield | Jun 29, 2015 | 11 Comments

The Chicago Department of Transportation recently held a public meeting about their clever proposal to install a contra-flow bike lane on Glenwood, between Ridge and Carmen, in Edgewater. More quietly, CDOT and the 49th Ward have been moving forward with an equally promising plan for a neighborhood greenway on Glenwood and and Greenview in Rogers […]

Greenway Edged Out in Little Village PB Election, But Could Still Happen

By John Greenfield | May 9, 2014 | No Comments

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 […]

Never Fear, the Rogers Park Greenway Is Still in the Works

By John Greenfield | May 5, 2014 | 2 Comments

I was nonplussed when I checked out the results of Saturday’s 49th Ward participatory budgeting election this morning. The most exciting proposal, a bike-priority neighborhood greenway, which was discussed at a community meeting in mid-April, wasn’t one of the winning projects, since it wasn’t even included on the ballot. Fortunately, the north-south greenway, originally proposed […]

Rogers Parkers Discuss Plans for Divvy Stations, Greenway

By Justin Haugens | Apr 22, 2014 | No Comments

The city is gearing up to add 175 more Divvy bike-share stations this year, bringing the total to 475. On Thursday, 49th Ward Alderman Joe Moore hosted a community meeting at Eugene Field elementary to discuss potential Divvy station locations within Rogers Park. The meeting also covered the proposed north-south neighborhood greenway that’s a ballot item […]

Rogers Park Participatory Budgeting Ideas Include a North-South Greenway

By John Greenfield | Apr 2, 2014 | 11 Comments

Chicago aldermen traditionally use their $1.3 million in discretionary “menu” money for basic street, sidewalk and lighting improvements. However, this year a handful of wards are holding participatory budgeting elections. These often result in money being set aside for innovative transportation projects, and walking and biking infrastructure is a relative bargain. 49th Ward Alderman Joe […]

It’s “New Bikeways Week” at Streetsblog Chicago. First Up: Berteau

By Steven Vance | Oct 21, 2013 | 42 Comments

It’s “New Bikeways Week” here on Streetsblog, and John and I will be writing up the many new neighborhood greenways, protected bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, and refreshed bike lanes installed this summer and fall. First up: the Berteau neighborhood greenway. Construction on the Berteau Avenue neighborhood greenway, which began in late August, is now […]

The Latest Word From the Mayor’s Pedestrian Advisory Council

By Kristen Maddox | Aug 26, 2013 | 23 Comments

The Mayor’s Pedestrian Advisory Council met last Wednesday, the day after an SUV driver struck and killed an 83-year-old man in Rogers Park, then fled the scene. At the meeting, Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein, co-chair of MPAC, along with Peter Skosey, vice president of the Metropolitan Planning Council, described the crash as “gruesome.” […]