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A Vision Zero outreach event on Chicago's West Side. Image: CDOT

West Side Vision Zero Plan downplays the role of police enforcement, stresses education

By Lynda Lopez | Sep 18, 2019 | 3 Comments

West Side residents made it clear that they don't want Vision Zero to lead to traffic stops being used as an excuse to conduct searches.

A Vision Zero outreach event. Photo: CDOT

Chicago unveils its West Side Vision Zero Traffic Safety Plan

By John Greenfield | Sep 12, 2019 | 3 Comments

The city says the program addresses traffic safety as a public health and equity issue. Mobility justice advocate Oboi Reed says he still wants assurance that it won't lead to increased police enforcement.

Olatunji Oboi Reed kicking off a Slow Roll Chicago ride in the Marquette Park neighborhood on the Southwest side of Chicago in August of 2015. Photo: Michael Bracey

Riding Through the Pain: One Year, One Day, and One Hundred Miles of Biking

By Olatunji Oboi Reed | Aug 21, 2019 | 3 Comments

Slow Roll Chicago and Equiticity cofounder Oboi Reed discusses his past year of struggling with clinical depression, and why he's ready to get back in the fight for mobility justice.

Robert Calvin rides in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, one of the Black communities that saw heavy bike ticketing over the past two years. Photo: John Greenfield

CPD: Police Are Using Bike Ticketing to Make Gun and Drug Arrests in Communities of Color

By Igor Studenkov | Jun 7, 2018 | 7 Comments

A police rep had previously denied that bike citations were a pretense for stop-and-frisk.

Peter Taylor from the Major Taylor Cycling Club of Chicago, center, and other South Side residents provided input at a Streets for Cycling 2020 Plan open house in 2012. Photo: John Greenfield

Oboi Reed: Transportation Planning Needs to Become Less “Stale, Pale, and Male”

By James Porter | Jun 6, 2018 | 8 Comments

The Equiticity and Slow Roll Chicago leader discussed how to make the decision process more democratic

A Slow Roll Chicago ride. Photo: Slow Roll

Oboi Reed on How Bike Rides and Community Walks Can Be a Gateway to Activism

By John Greenfield | May 14, 2018 | No Comments

The Slow Roll and Equiticity cofounder discussed four steps for mobilizing residents at the PolicyLink Equity Summit

Now That Rockford Has Dockless, When Will The Technology Come to Chicago?

By John Greenfield | Apr 19, 2018 | 8 Comments

Officials finally confirmed that they met with vendors and may be launching a pilot soon.

Oboi Reed speaks at the Mayor's Bicycle Advisory Council Meeting. Photo: John Greenfield

Oboi Reed Delivered a Manifesto Against CPD’s Racially Biased Bike Ticketing at City Hall

By John Greenfield | Mar 7, 2018 | 6 Comments

A police representative claims that the citations aren't just an excuse for stop-and-frisk.

A cyclist rides on Independence Boulevard in North Lawndale, which saw about 80 times as many bike tickets last year as Lincoln Park. Photo: John Greenfield

CDOT Will Let Equiticity CEO Speak About Racially Biased Bike Ticketing at MBAC

By John Greenfield | Feb 28, 2018 | 7 Comments

CEO Oboi Reed says the city officials promised to solve the problem but failed to do so.

Equiticity's Oboi Reed in a Moscow metro station.

Equiticity Takes Its Mobility Message From Russia to Peru

By John Greenfield | Feb 21, 2018 | 4 Comments

CEO Oboi Reed will also be spreading the word about the group's transportation equity efforts all over the country this year.

Housepainter James Woods rides in the Lake Street protected bike lane on the West Side soon after it was installed several years ago. Conditions have degraded significantly since then. Photo: John Greenfield

Oboi Reed Blasts the City’s Failure to Address Its Biased Bike Ticketing Problem

By John Greenfield | Feb 19, 2018 | 3 Comments

Meanwhile, CDOT acknowledges that many West Siders don't want additional Vision Zero policing

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