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Kinzie Street: The First of Many Protected Bike Lanes for Chicago

By Elizabeth Press | Dec 1, 2011 | No Comments

In his campaign for mayor, Rahm Emanuel pledged to make Chicago a more bike-friendly city. And in office, he set his sights high, aiming to construct 100 miles of protected bike lanes in his first term. His team wasted no time. Chicago DOT installed the city’s first protected bike lane on Kinzie Street before Emanuel’s […]

Chicago Proposes “Congestion Fee” On Parking to Fund Transit

By Noah Kazis | Oct 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

In last winter’s Chicago mayoral election, all the leading candidates made ambitious promises to increase funding for the city’s struggling transit agency. Now, with a proposed $2 “congestion fee” — really a downtown surcharge on the city’s parking tax — Emanuel plans to make drivers pay their fair share and use the proceeds to build […]

Rahm Emanuel Refuses to Say He’s “Not Against Bike Lanes”

By Brad Aaron | Jun 23, 2011 | 10 Comments

Okay. We can be envious now. We noted a little while back that in setting out to make Chicago the nation’s most bike-friendly city, Rahm Emanuel was setting a tone not heard before from a big-city mayor. Indications are that cyclists aren’t tolerated in Emanuel’s Chicago, but wanted. Here’s an excerpt from an Emanuel statement […]

Rahm Emanuel: What’s Good for Cyclists Is Good for Chicago

By Brad Aaron | Jun 9, 2011 | 12 Comments

Given the rapid innovations on city streets over the last four years, New York cyclists and pedestrians don’t yet have much cause to be envious of their counterparts in Chicago. Still, it’s hard not to feel a little green watching Mayor Rahm Emanuel express such unqualified support for an ambitious bike lane plan while elucidating […]

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Gabe Klein, Architect of DC’s Bike Progress, Is Chicago Bound

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 19, 2011 | No Comments

Chicago Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel has snapped up Gabe Klein, former head of the District Department of Transportation in Washington, to head up his transportation team in the Windy City. Klein earned a reputation as a transportation star in the nation’s capital, helping put Washington on the national map as a leading bike- and transit-friendly city. […]

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Chicago’s Bus Tracker: Taking the Guesswork Out of Waiting for the Bus

By Elizabeth Press | Jan 14, 2011 | No Comments

One of the encouraging trends for American transit riders, in an otherwise bleak landscape of service cuts and fare hikes, is the growing number of agencies experimenting with ways to bring better information to their customers. Last summer Streetfilms explored how open transit data is helping to make riding the bus or the train more convenient in […]

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