Infrastructure
Basics
Study: Protected Bike Paths Saved Lives During COVID
COVID sparked a bike boom across America, but the experience from one Virginia city shows that communities should prioritize building more protected bike lanes and off-road cycle tracks, virus or no virus, a new study suggests.
August 10, 2021
Advocates Find More Surprises in Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, Amendments
As the Senate crawls through hundreds of amendments on President Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill, advocates are still combing through the text of the monster bill — and they're finding some surprises.
August 5, 2021
A closer look at CDOT’s plan to close Chicago’s transportation equity gap
August 4, 2021
Infrastructure Deal ‘Worst Ratio for Transit Funding Since Nixon’
Washington is one step closer to passing an infrastructure package that would provide historic funding for transit, and then immediately undercut it with historic funding for drivers.
July 30, 2021
“We’ve got to do better”: Buttigieg, Chicago officials rally support for Biden’s infra plan
July 20, 2021
Op-Ed: Stop Tolerating Roadway Deaths in our Communities and Start Prioritizing Traffic Safety over Speed
The lack of attention to our shameful national record of traffic deaths in the latest infrastructure debate is a political, professional, and moral failing. Fortunately, we have a solution: demand that the Biden Administration and Congress prioritize traffic safety, rather than driver speed, for future roadway projects.
July 20, 2021
Remember the Crosstown? Here’s the story of Chicago’s successful 1970s freeway revolt
July 12, 2021
Bus lanes aren’t enough: We must transform DuSable Drive into a multimodal boulevard
July 7, 2021
As Feds Debate Transportation Pay-Fors, Don’t Forget What We’re Buying
Washington celebrates a bipartisan infrastructure agreement, but advocates are still wondering what, exactly, the bill will actually build.
June 25, 2021
Active Transportation Big in ‘INVEST’ Earmarks
An unprecedented number of infrastructure projects earmarked in the House infrastructure bill would serve pedestrians, micromobility riders, and people who use assistive devices, on top of the robust increases in core programs that already fund infrastructure for those modes.
June 11, 2021
