Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Chicago

Is the Livability Movement Doomed to Homogeneity? The CDC Says No.

By Tanya Snyder | Jan 13, 2011 | 13 Comments

The first time Adolfo Hernandez went to the National Bike Summit, he got a sense of just how monochromatic the livability movement can be. “I think there were about 300 or 400 people,” he said. “And really, I could count on one hand people I thought were people of color.” Hernandez is the director of […]

HUD Announces Winners of $100M in Sustainability Grants

By Tanya Snyder | Oct 14, 2010 | 2 Comments

Planners in 45 regions in 27 states have a little more to work with today in their efforts to shape sustainable growth. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the winners of nearly $100 million in grants from its new Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program, intended to connect “housing with good jobs, […]

Chicago Loses NYC’s Congestion Pricing Money

By Ben Fried | Jan 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Will Chicago get a second chance at federal funds for better bus service? Photo: celikins/Flickr Looks like New York legislators aren’t the only ones willing to pass up big money for transportation improvements if it means putting a fair price on private auto use. Back in April, the feds withdrew a $354 million grant to […]

Using Twitter to Catch a Train

By Sarah Goodyear | Oct 16, 2008 | 3 Comments

The people over at CTA Tattler ("seen and heard on the Chicago Transit Authority"), as part of their tireless efforts to monitor the movements of the Chicago Transit Authority, have turned to the microblogging tool Twitter and created a Twitter feed with the user name ctatweet. It’s a way for people using the city’s transit […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 2: Three Cities

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 21, 2007 | 13 Comments

This is the second installment in a five-part rail travel series that began yesterday. In between all that fun Amtrak travel I described yesterday, my wife Susan and I stopped on our honeymoon at six great cities with an eye toward observing their built environments and transportation systems (but mostly just being plain old tourists). […]

Transit-Oriented America, Part 1: Eight Thousand Miles

By Aaron Donovan | Aug 20, 2007 | 44 Comments

My wife and I were married last month in Brooklyn. For our honeymoon, we wanted to see as many great American cities as we could. In 19 days of travel, we visited Chicago, Seattle, Portland (Ore.), San Francisco, Los Angeles and New Orleans (and also stopped briefly in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia). How could two people as obsessed as […]

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