Bicycling
Basics
What should we do about racial discrepancies in Chicago’s life-saving traffic cam program?
There's no question that the cams are preventing injury and fatality crashes, but Black and Latino motorists and racking up more tickets and suffering financing hardship. Should we reform or abolish it.
January 15, 2022
SEE IT: Streetfilms Shows How Cargo Bikes Are Revolutionizing Family Life in New York
Parents with conventional or electric bikes are loading up their kids (sometimes several kids!) and taking them everywhere.
January 11, 2022
RETURN TO SENDER: USPS Decarbonization Plan is Weak, Say Advocates
Sustainability leaders are furious at the United States Postal Service for dragging its feet on ditching gas-powered mail trucks and other vehicles — and the agency doesn't seem to be seriously considering non-automotive mail delivery options, either.
January 10, 2022
Who should we be really building bikeways for?
A discussion of whether or not "door zone" lanes lanes are terrible yielded an essential truth: To dramatically build bike mode-share, what we need a network of 8-to-80 facilities.
January 10, 2022
Using Cycling as an Indicator for Urban Quality of Life
Metropolitan areas around the world struggle with the same problem: More people means more traffic. But what if a significant portion of people living in cities relied on cycling or other modes of active transport?
January 7, 2022
Bakery-fresh CDOT study reaffirms speed cameras are saving lives
The new report compared the changes in crash numbers near speed cameras and citywide between 2012-13 and 2018-2019 and confirmed that collision numbers have stayed relatively low near the cams.
January 6, 2022
LEST WE FORGET: It’s Normal for the Mayor to Take the Subway or Ride a Bike
You know what's weird? A mayor not riding the subway or a bike to get around.
January 4, 2022
Motorist Threatens to Run Over Families on Slow Lake Street
2022 could be a nasty, rough year as the battle to end traffic violence continues
January 3, 2022
Op-Ed: Reimagining Walking Distance
The infrastructure bill presents a great opportunity to make our towns and cities more walkable. But we must ensure that the money is used for building better pedestrian and bike infrastructure instead of wasted on highway expansion projects.
January 3, 2022
Transportation planning needs better language accessibility, and more coalition building
In a field like planning, that is technical and political, and requires community participation, language accessibility is one necessary tool, but it does not guarantee that the voices of the community will have an impact.
December 31, 2021
