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Illinois DOT Blocks Protected Bike Lanes on Many Chicago Streets Until 2014

By Steven Vance | Feb 5, 2013 | No Comments

An interesting example of state DOT interference in local street safety policy, from our team in Chicago… Last month we noted that the Illinois Department of Transportation prevented the installation of a protected bike lane planned for Jackson Boulevard, allowing only a buffered bike lane on the segment of the street it controls. Now we know […]

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How BRT Can Build Chicago’s Economy as Well as Improve Mobility

By Steven Vance | Jan 23, 2013 | No Comments

As planning advances for Chicago’s first full-fledged Bus Rapid Transit routes, public officials and advocates are starting to make the case that new, high-quality bus service is about more than getting people from point A to point B quickly and reliably. Those mobility benefits will be significant, but if BRT succeeds at improving transit trips […]

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Chicago Unveils Its Ambitious Pedestrian Safety Plan

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 6, 2012 | No Comments

Yesterday, the city of Chicago rolled out a sweeping new plan for pedestrian safety [PDF]. With some 250 recommendations — including traffic-calming measures like pedestrian islands, chicanes and midblock curb bumpouts — Chicago joins cities like New York and Portland in formalizing a plan to meet targets for reducing pedestrian injuries and deaths. Chicago Department […]

Chicago Passes Huge Speed Camera Bill, So Why Can’t New York?

By Noah Kazis | Apr 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, Chicago’s Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance that would allow speeding enforcement cameras to blanket up to half the city. Here in New York, Deborah Glick’s bill to allow up to a mere 40 speed cameras remains stuck in Albany limbo, with 24 co-sponsors in the Assembly but none in the State Senate. Can […]

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Will Rahm Emanuel Show America What BRT Can Do?

By Ben Schulman | Dec 19, 2011 | No Comments

With impressive urgency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has spent his first months in office retooling and reconfiguring how the “City That Works” works. Emanuel’s energy is evident in changes from beat-cop deployment to the push for a longer school day, but perhaps the mayor’s most tangible efforts can be seen in his ambitious transportation agenda. […]

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TIGER III News Begins to Leak — Chicago Bike-Share Among the Winners

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 14, 2011 | No Comments

U.S. DOT is officially announcing the winners of the third round of TIGER grants tomorrow, but they give the news to members of Congress first so those members can brag about all the bacon they bring home. See below for a list of the grants we know about so far. Chicago’s Blue Line and bike-share […]

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