Eyes on the Street: Checking Out the New Wilson Station House
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Another CTA station became wheelchair-friendly today as the main stationhouse of the new Wilson stop opened, complete with an elevator and escalator.
Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about Uptown
Ardmore-Montrose Plan Will Add a Half-Mile to Bike Route
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For better or for worse, cyclists will have to detour east to the lakefront on this stretch, and trail users will have to go through an underpass to cross Montrose.
Let’s Not Use Sidewalk Bike Lanes as Defensive Architecture
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CDOT is planning to install bike lanes on the sidewalks of Uptown's Lawrence and Wilson viaducts. It appears that this is a strategy to prevent future homeless encampments
Eyes on the Street: Ogle the Wilson Station’s Translucent Canopy from the Sky
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What you’re seeing isn’t a typical “Eyes on the Street” because we got our “eyes” up in the air with the new Streetsblog Chicago Traffic Chopper (actually a drone camera) to check in on the reconstruction of the CTA’s Wilson ‘L’ station in Uptown. The project, which began in 2014, will make the train stop […]
Residents Want More Affordable Housing Along Broadway as Part of Red/Purple Rehab
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Instead of focusing on higher-end shops, restaurants, and housing, many neighbors along this corridor expressed strong support for affordable housing to help maintain a diverse community.
Chicago’s First “Shared Street” on Argyle Is Officially Open for Business
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This afternoon in Uptown, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, 48th Ward alderman Harry Osterman, and other local officials cut the ribbon on the Argyle “shared street,” a pedestrian-priority design inspired by similar streets in Asia and Europe. By calming traffic and blurring the lines between spaces for walking and vehicles, as well as providing more room for […]
The New Wilson ‘L’ Platform Will Be Massive – The Widest in the System
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This morning the CTA celebrated the completion of more than 50 percent of the Wilson station reconstruction project, shortly after all customer boarding was moved to the recently completed west island platform. Now that both sides of the new platform are completed and the transit agency is working on demolishing the old one, you can […]
CDOT, 48th Ward Address the Learning Curve for the Argyle Shared Street
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The Argyle Shared Street project, designed to calm traffic, provide more space for pedestrians and sidewalk cafes, creating a safer, more pleasant, and more profitable business strip, is a great idea. But so far the layout for the streetscape initiative, which raised the street up to sidewalk level and blurred the lines between pedestrian and […]
Take a Virtual Spin on the Argyle Shared Street, Now Fully Open to Traffic
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The Argyle Shared Street, a project to create a safer and more pleasant environment on Chicago’s Southeast Asian shopping and dining strip by blurring the lines between pedestrian and vehicle space, reopened to two-way traffic last week. The $3 million project involved raising the level of the street, eliminating curbs, and adding decorative pavers with […]
“RIDE” Highlights the Need to Make Streets Safer for Chicago Cyclists
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We don’t usually cover the performing arts here at Streetsblog Chicago, but I thought our readers would want to know about the original play “RIDE,” written by Neil Connelly, which discusses local bike safety issues, focusing on the aftermath of a fatal crash. The entire play is set in an Uptown bike store. No, it’s not actually […]
Groups Push for Turning Parking Under the Wilson Tracks to Public Space
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New York’s Chelsea neighborhood has the High Line pedestrian path, and Chicago’s Northwest Side has the Bloomingdale Trail elevated greenway. Now groups in Chicago’s Uptown community are pushing to create the next great linear park by a rail line, a project they’ve dubbed the Wilson Underline. The CTA’s $203 million Wilson station overhaul includes ambition […]