Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Randy Neufeld

Why Was the State Street Pedestrian Mall a “Failure”?

By John Greenfield | Mar 11, 2013 | 20 Comments

[This piece also appears in Checkerboard City, John’s weekly transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] When I was a bicycle messenger in the early nineties, the State Street pedestrian mall, a car-free, bike-free zone between Wacker and Congress, was the bane of my existence. In 1979, under Mayor Jane […]

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Voices From the National Women’s Bicycling Forum

By Clarence Eckerson Jr. | Mar 7, 2013 | No Comments

For the second year running, the Women’s Bicycling Forum kicked off the National Bike Summit in Washington, DC. About 300 people attended, and Streetfilms got to take their pulse on the state of bicycling for women and collect some suggestions about how to grow the number of women who ride. Here’s a sampling of what […]

Thinking Big: The Lake Shore Drive Bike-and-Bus Highway

By Steven Vance | Mar 1, 2013 | 37 Comments

Back in August, longtime bicycling activist Randy Neufeld – currently the director of the SRAM Cycling Fund and formerly the Active Transportation Alliance’s first paid staffer – outlined an intriguing proposal in Chicago Magazine: building a bike-and-bus highway into the north Lake Shore Drive reconstruction project. …the city could create two specialized lanes at minimal cost. […]