Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about South Shore

The New Ventra App Will Make Metra Easier to Ride For Millions of People

By Steven Vance | Nov 11, 2015 | 35 Comments

Update Nov. 18: The Ventra app is available half a day early. Download for Android and iOS. The Ventra app will be released this month, making it more convenient to pay your Metra fare, whether you’re an occasional rider or a daily commuter. The best thing about the app is that it allows you to […]

Man Dies Nine Days After Being Struck on a Bike in South Shore

By John Greenfield | Oct 27, 2015 | No Comments

South Shore resident Jonathan Phillips, 47, died nine days after being struck by a driver while bicycling near his home. On Wednesday, October 7, Phillips was riding on the 2300 block of East 70th Street, where he resides, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. After a driver struck him, he was transported to Jackson […]

Once Again, DNAinfo Lowballs Ridership for a New South Side Divvy Station

By John Greenfield | Oct 19, 2015 | 12 Comments

I appreciate DNAinfo’s efforts in crunching Divvy ridership data to produce a series on usage patterns in neighborhoods like Uptown, Logan Square, and Lakeview. However, their method has resulted in a couple of articles that dramatically underreported the number of rides taken to and from new South Side stations. On Friday morning, DNA ran a […]

The Divvy Perimeter Ride: Checking Out Bike-Share in Outlying Communities

By John Greenfield | May 22, 2015 | 9 Comments

[This piece also ran in Checkerboard City, John’s transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] This year’s Divvy bike-share expansion, beefing up the system from 300 docking stations to 476, has moved at warp speed. As of yesterday, 168 of the new stations have been installed since mid-April; The remaining […]

Young Girl Fatally Struck By CTA Bus Driver

By John Greenfield | May 27, 2014 | 8 Comments

View Larger Map The 7700 block of South Shore Drive from the driver’s perspective. Yesterday around 3:20 p.m., a 19-month-old girl was struck and killed by a CTA bus driver in the South Shore neighborhood. The girl, Cherish C. Meyers, was with a group of people celebrating Memorial Day on the 7700 block of South […]

South Shore Residents Resist Demolition of Walkable Retail Block

By Steven Vance | Mar 20, 2014 | 36 Comments

South Shore residents have launched a campaign to rescue their neighborhood’s walkable retail core. Reclaiming South Shore for All, together with The Planning Coalition (representing over 70 neighborhood groups and block clubs), is urging developers to retain a block of buildings at the busy transit junction of 71st Street and Jeffery Boulevard rather than allowing them […]

Repaved South Shore Drive Makes Bicycling Smoother But Problems Remain

By Steven Vance | Oct 23, 2013 | 4 Comments

New Bikeways Week pedals ahead as we look at new and upgraded bike lanes all over the city. Yesterday I visited the Lakeside development in South Chicago to get a tour in anticipation of the grand opening of what’s known as the South Lake Shore Drive extension. After that, I checked out 1.25 miles of […]

Route J14 Revisited: Is the Jeffery Jump Still Running Smoothly?

By James Porter | Apr 1, 2013 | 5 Comments

Editor’s note: Last November the J14 Jeffery Jump bus launched as the CTA’s first attempt at creating an express bus service with some of the elements of bus rapid transit. While the 15 Jeffery Local makes 37 stops between 103rd Street and Lake Shore Drive, the Jump only makes 19 stops. Between 83rd and 67th streets, inbound buses […]

Eyes on the Street: Crew Out in the Cold Fixing Bike Lane Cave-In

By Steven Vance | Feb 1, 2013 | 4 Comments

Nine days ago Streetsblog forwarded South Shore resident Deborah Harrington’s photo of a pavement cave-in in the bike lane at 7300 S South Shore Drive to the Department of Transportation. Today Deborah excitedly emailed me some photos she took of the site, where Department of Water Management crews are now diligently working in 10°F weather […]

Next South Shore Alderman Must Expand and Protect Existing Transit

By Steven Vance | Jan 22, 2013 | 3 Comments

A Metra Electric train crosses Yates Boulevard out of the South Shore station. Photo by Jeff Zoline. Applications are being accepted by Mayor Email until Friday, January 25 at 5 PM. Alderman Sandi Jackson of the 7th Ward, which includes South Shore, South Chicago, Rainbow Beach, and Jeffery Manor, resigned effective Tuesday. Mayor Emanuel has […]