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Last week's racial equity impact assessment meeting. Photo provided by Juan Sebastian Arias.

Residents Discuss Potential Equity Impacts of the Logan Traffic Circle Redesign

By Lisa Phillips | Aug 1, 2018 | 9 Comments

Neighbors want to help ensure that the improvements don't accelerate the displacement of longtime residents.

Riders do a "Chicago Hold-up" in front of the main police headquarters. Photo: John Greenfield

Cyclists of Color Weighed in on CPD Bike Ticketing at the Wheels of Justice Ride

By James Porter | Jul 30, 2018 | 1 Comment

The Chicago Critical Mass route ended by occupying the streets by the main police headquarters.

Johnny Harris rides a bike in North Lawndale. Photo: John Greenfield

ACLU of Illinois Weighs in on the CPD’s Racially Skewed Bike Ticketing Policies

By John Greenfield | Jul 23, 2018 | 14 Comments

An ACLU rep says it's doubtful that heavy-handed bike enforcement would be tolerated in majority-white neighborhoods.

Detail from a photo of ten allegedly "hot" Divvy bikes. Facebook via Scott Williams, CWB Chicago

In Response to “Recent Series of Thefts,” Divvy Is Beefing up Dock Security

By John Greenfield | Jul 12, 2018 | 13 Comments

Five days after Streetsblog notified the city about social media reports of a rash of stolen bikes, Divvy says they're on top of the issue.

The print version of the Mellow Chicago Bike Map.

The Mellow Chicago Bike Map Highlights Low-Stress Routes

By John Greenfield | Jun 21, 2018 | 4 Comments

It's available in print in this week's Chicago Reader and online as a smartphone-friendly Google Map.

It’s On: Chicago’s Car2go Pilot Launches Next Month

By John Greenfield | Jun 21, 2018 | 11 Comments

The test is our city's latest experiment with a new shared-mobility option.

New buffered lanes on Stony Island Avenue near Lake Calumet will make cycling to Big Marsh bike park a bit safer, although truck traffic will still be a hazard. Photo: Slow Roll Chicago

Plenty of Good Chicago Bikeway Projects Will Be Built in 2018

By John Greenfield | Jun 13, 2018 | 56 Comments

The list includes several miles of neighborhood greenways

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.

Evanston’s Fountain Square Rehab and Road Diet Is Creating a Great Public Space

By Shaun Jacobsen | May 29, 2018 | 9 Comments

The suburb converted a road median and excess travel lanes to an attractive new plaza, and more improvements are in the works.

The DoBi pilot has expanded the area of the city with bike-share access by roughly 50 percent, but big areas of the Southwest and Northwest sides still don't have shared bikes. Map: Steven Vance

Even With the New Dockless Pilot, Chicago Still Has Vast Bike-Share Deserts

By Steven Vance and John Greenfield | May 3, 2018 | 19 Comments

Combining the Divvy and DoBi zones on a map also shows which parts of the Far South Side got left out of the pilot, and how Divvy station density affects the usefulness of the system.

Anne Alt takes a LimeBike for a spin in Beverly. Photo: John Greenfield

LimeBike and Zagster Dockless Bikes Launch in Chicago, Ofo and Jump Are Coming

By John Greenfield | May 1, 2018 | 5 Comments

But will the narrow parameters of the city's DoBi pilot program doom the fleets to fail?

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