Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Public Safety

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, March 30

By John Greenfield | Mar 30, 2023 | No Comments

Check out the city’s new Chicago Cycling Strategy plan for equitably expanding the bike network Block Club: “The new stop and frisk? Chicago police make millions of traffic stops while searching for guns” Jury awards $5 million to family of Verona Gunn, 84 killed in 2019 crash with speeding CPD officer in Austin (Sun-Times) One […]

Divvy bikes parked next to the Lakefront Trail near North Avenue. Photo: Steven Vance

For second time in less than a year, another Divvy price hike quietly kicked in this month

By John Greenfield | Mar 29, 2023 | No Comments

Today the Chicago Department of Transportation put out a press release about the new Chicago Cycling Strategy plan, “outlining a community-driven approach to expanding Chicago’s bike network and creating a more equitable, safe, and inviting city for cycling.” Streetsblog will take a closer look at that document soon. But you know what CDOT never put […]

Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas. Image: CBS

Speed round: Both candidates said they’d dismantle Chicago’s livesaving speed cam program

By John Greenfield | Mar 29, 2023 | No Comments

It's disappointing that even politicians who claim to care about public safety and transportation equity have a blind spot when it comes to automated enforcement, which protects the most vulnerable Chicagoans, simply because traffic cameras are unpopular with drivers.

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Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, March 29

By John Greenfield | Mar 29, 2023 | No Comments

Driver, 46, cited after fatally striking man, 56, in five-lane 2000 block of N. Cicero in Belmont Cragin (ABC) CPD: Squad car broadsided by minivan driver at Madison/Pulaski in West Garfield, 1 injured (CBS) CPD makes it more difficult for non-involved civilians to get crash reports for unidentified fatalities, citing privacy concerns (CBS) CTA worker, […]

Report looks at how infra and enforcement limit freedom of movement in Black communities

By Cameron Bolton | Mar 28, 2023 | No Comments

The report report suggests that cities like Chicago not only need to provide equitable safety infrastructure in communities of color, they also need to rethink traffic law enforcement in order to remove barriers to mobility.

Guo Ning Li, 78, killed in Chinatown crosswalk by van driver who failed to yield

By John Greenfield | Mar 28, 2023 | No Comments

The incident was the second time in a month that a turning van driver fatally struck a senior in a Chicago crosswalk.

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Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, March 28

By John Greenfield | Mar 28, 2023 | No Comments

Vallas says he would fire Dorval Carter, replace unarmed CTA security with cops in Block Club interview Mike Simmons passed measure today requiring IDOT to make Complete Streets upgrades to its non-highway roadways Reps from Equiticity, UIC’s Urban Transportation Center and MPC discuss transportation challenges next mayor will face (WTTW) 2 killed, 1 fatally injured […]

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New Tool Maps Sidewalks From the Sky — And Encourages Cities to Fill The Gaps

By Kea Wilson | Mar 28, 2023 | No Comments

Cities across America will soon be able to easily map their pedestrian infrastructure using the power of artificial intelligence.

The Division Blue Line station. Photo: John Greenfield

CTA announced additional ORD branch trains, quietly cut scheduled service on other lines

By John Greenfield | Mar 27, 2023 | No Comments

While the CTA put out a press release about additional “short-turned” trips between O'Hare and UIC, they barely publicized scheduled service cuts to other lines at all.

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, March 27

By John Greenfield | Mar 27, 2023 | No Comments

CDOT’s Biagi “discusses key challenges and achievements she has overcome and accomplished” (Intelligent Transport) GoFundMe launched after van driver fatally struck Guo Ning Li 3/19 at 24th/Wentworth in Chinatown Hit-and-run driver ran stop sign at Washington/Green Saturday, fatally striking James Richard Thompson, 26 (ABC) 1 dead, 1 injured after driver struck another car Saturday morning […]