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  • CDOT gives a preview of its Complete Streets design guide at ATA monthly meeting
  • Friends of the Crosstown Trail marks a year of progress
  • Five years after City of Chicago signed off on a policy plan, the “State of ETOD in Chicago” report notes progress creat

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 week ago

CDOT gives a preview of its Complete Streets design guide at ATA monthly meeting

This post is sponsored by Find The Right Bike. On Wednesday, the Active Transportation Alliance held its monthly Advocacy Connect webinar. The hour focused on the Chicago Depart...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 week ago

Friends of the Crosstown Trail marks a year of progress

Can a strip of land that once seemed doomed to be turned into expressway instead become Chicago’s next great public space?

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Five years after City of Chicago signed off on a policy plan, the “State of ETOD in Chicago” report notes progress creat...

This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. Five years ago, the City of Chicago adopted its first policy plan dedicated to Equitable Transit Oriented Development, a strategy for in...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 week ago

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, July 2

Sponsored by: • Ald. Lee told SBC she’s open to installing “physical infrastructure that protects people better.” 11th Ward residents can let her know they support C...

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chi.streetsblog.org /2 weeks ago

Take a virtual ride on the newly completed Lincoln Avenue protected bike lanes in Lincoln Square

This post is sponsored by Ride Illinois. From Archer Avenue in Brighton Park, to Grand Avenue in West Town, Complete Streets projects that involve converting car parking spaces...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

NITA reason to celebrate? Transit officials and advocates discuss the importance of the Northern Illinois Transit Author...

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. Remember “The Halloween Miracle” that happened last October 31, when state legislators stayed up way past the witching hour to pas...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Transport Chicago’s “Year of the Bus” panel discussed CTA service upgrades that contributed to increased ridership

This post is sponsored by Find The Right Bike. Last week, urban planners, architects, engineers, politicos and transportation enthusiasts gathered on the 15th floor of the downt...

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chi.streetsblog.org /2 weeks ago

Equiticity’s North Lawndale Ride highlighted neighborhood landmarks and the future Go Hub sustainable mobility headquart...

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. Yesterday, Equiticity hosted The North Lawndale Ride, an “opportunity to bring families, neighbors, and community members together...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Here’s Better Streets’ heartfelt response to Ald. Lopez’s callous tweet about Riley O’Neil. And the alder made a broken-...

This post is sponsored by the Active Transportation Alliance. The Southwest Side’s Ald. Ray Lopez (15th) is obviously, a shrewd, witty guy, who deserves credit for working his w...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 weeks ago

At Transport Chicago panel, bike-share program veterans discussed “The Good, the Bad, and the Rebalanced”

This post is sponsored by Find The Right Bike. Last week’s Transport Chicago conference included panel discussions and presentations on a wide range of progressive and sustainab...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Chicago’s lakefront highway debate enters a new phase as public pressure mounts

You can testify in favor of a less car-centric shoreline at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's Transportation Committee meeting this Friday morning.

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 week ago

Calling out in transit: Advocates ridicule mayor for re-nominating NITA-skeptical Barclay, Pastor Eaddy to new CTA board...

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. Today Mayor Brandon Johnson took steps toward reifying our region’s new transit governance structure, as dictated by the Northern...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

On the day Illinois passed the Stop Super Speeders law, the Ride of Silence was a reminder of how far we have to go to m...

There was a big win for Illinois traffic safety on Wednesday when the General Assembly completed the passage of Stop Super Speeders legislation (HB 4948). This bill sets the stage...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Monday, May 18

Sponsored by: • What do Chicagoans want to see here in 2050? Tribune letter writers, including SBC reader Andrew Mack, call for better walk/bike/transit. • Sponsored...

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chi.streetsblog.org /3 weeks ago

Eyes on the Street: Yes we can… get to the Obama Center without driving

Sustainable transportation scenes from today's Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Bronzeville Trail open house draws big crowd as community-led rail-trail plan moves forward

The proposed trail would transform the long-abandoned Kenwood Line embankment into an elevated walking and biking path connecting Bronzeville to the lakefront.

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Ald. Sigcho-Lopez: Anti-Archer protest promoter Juan Rangel is “pitting the needs of small businesses against the safety...

This post is sponsored by Boulevard Bikes. Unsurprisingly, Streetsblog Chicago’s reporting on the “centrist to conservative” politics behind the weekly protests against the Arch...

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chi.streetsblog.org /2 weeks ago

Today’s Headlines for Friday, June 26

Sponsored by: • ATA: “After every fatal crash involving someone walking or biking, we contact the local alder w/ the question: How can we work together to prevent th...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 week ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday July 8

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • More discussion of Mayor Johnson’s choices for the new transit boards (Tribune, Crain’s) • “Mayor Brandon Johnson says alderm...

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chi.streetsblog.org /6 days ago

Today’s Headlines for Thursday, July 9

Sponsored by: • Hit-and-run driver blew traffic light Wednesday around 11:40 PM at Monre/DLSD near Taste of Chicago and seriously injured man crossing the drive on f...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Tuesday, June 9

Sponsored by: • More coverage of yesterday’s ride and “die-in” for fallen CDOT Planner Riley O’Neil (Tribune, Block Club, CBS, ABC, WGN, Fox) • La Spata, ATA hono...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 day ago

Moving Archer Forward plan calls for improving safety and stations, plus eTOD, but no specific redesign of Archer Avenue

This post is sponsored by Boulevard Bikes. Reporting on the Moving Archer Forward meeting is by Ellen Steinke, and discussion of the Archer traffic safety project is by John Gre...

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chi.streetsblog.org /1 month ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, May 20

This post is sponsored by Keating Law Offices. • “Many Metra riders with disabilities have been forced to reroute trips due to Monday’s closure of only elevator providing access...

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chi.streetsblog.org /16 hours ago

Today’s Headlines for Wednesday, July 15

• Here's Steven Vance's letter to Ald. Bill Conway (34) asking him to defer the Finance Committee’s vote to fund a huge parking garage on The 78 with no transit investments.

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