Are Dashed Bike Lanes Better Than Nothing...Or Not?
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Are they a pragmatic, better-than-nothing approach on streets where stripping parking is seen as a nonstarter. Or are they a depressing capitulation to car culture?
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Eyes on the Street
‘School of Rock’ Drummer Kevin Clark is Killed in Crash
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The former child actor is the second high-profile celebrity death by automobile in Chicago in as many months.
How Hoboken Eliminated Traffic Deaths
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The Mile Square City shows what can be accomplished when a municipality really focuses on the zero of Vision Zero — it has recorded no traffic fatalities for three straight years.
A COVID-Era Amtrak/Bike Packing Diary
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I was fairly comfortable using Amtrak for this journey, so as long as we don't see another major spike in cases, I'll probably make more such trips this year as a safer alternative to flying.
Chicago Needs a Sidewalk Snow Clearance Plan
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The group has launched a new campaign and petition, with almost 1,250 signatures, to exhort the city of Chicago to take charge of winter sidewalk clearance.
Check Out Chicago's Gorgeous Ped Paintings
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These kinds of Complete Streets interventions are fairly easy and inexpensive, and can help make neighborhoods safer as well as more beautiful.