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.
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Highway Teardowns Are Great Investments
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Progressive advocates are making the case that new infrastructure money would actually be best spent tearing urban highways down — and reinvesting in the Black and brown communities that those bad road projects tore apart decades ago.
Don’t Hire Rahm Emanuel as USDOT Chief
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Announcing Emanuel as your choice would almost certainly fill the streets of Chicago with hundreds or thousands of justifiably angry protesters. You really don't want to kick off your administration that way.
Why Rahm Emanuel Shouldn't Be the Next DOT Secretary
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Former CDOT chief Gabe Klein would be an ethical choice for the transportation slot who wouldn't alienate the Democratic party's progressive wing.
What Will Biden-Harris Mean for Transportation?
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After the initial euphoria of Saturday’s election result wore off, Streetsblog Chicago reached out to local transportation leaders to get their take on what the Biden-Harris administration will mean for sustainable transportation, based on the candidates’ platform and statements. We also asked these experts and advocates, as well as our readers, what they’d like to […]
Chicago Needs Bike-Only Train Cars
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Bike cars on all trains on all lines during non-pandemic times would enable people to use bikes for first- and last-mile trips for downtown commutes.