John Greenfield
In addition to editing Streetsblog Chicago, John writes the transportation column for the Chicago Reader weekly paper. A Chicagoan since 1989, he enjoys exploring the city on foot, bike, bus, and 'L' train.
Recent Posts
Left-turning van driver who failed to yield killed Berta Arroyo Salgado, 73, in West Town
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Typically in such cases, if the driver stays at the scene and is sober, they merely receive minor traffic citations, even if they've taken a life.
Why Chicago’s ‘Ride of Silence’ Is Important
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The 20th annual Chicago Ride of Silence is an opportunity to mourn and reflect on lost lives, part of a global movement to honor people killed and injured on bicycles, and demand changes to keep bike riders safe
BMW driver killed woman, 32, at bus stop on high-speed Peterson Ave. in West Ridge
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Peterson is a five-lane speedway, bus stop fatalities are common in Chicago, and BMW drivers are the motorists most likely to get in crashes.
Divvy launches scooters and new pricing, but some members aren’t happy with the latter
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It would be much better if the city and Divvy come up with a pricing structure that encourages ridership, rather than suppressing it.
Columbus Park road diet improves safety, CDOT says Block Club “buried the facts”
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In reality plenty of people are benefitting from the project. And emails show CDOT agreed with us that Block Club's coverage, which asserted that the road diet is "causing traffic jams" despite the data, was absurd.
Failure to create safe cycling conditions on Milwaukee leads to second bike death at Kilbourn
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When a driver fatally strikes a person on a bike, the least we as a society can do for the victim’s loved ones is make policy and infrastructure changes to help ensure that a similar tragedy doesn’t happen at that location in the future. Sadly, that’s not what happened at the intersection of Milwaukee and […]
How Biking in Vienna and Budapest Compare to Chicago
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Comparing Budapest and Vienna offers more evidence that if Chicago wants to mainstream cycling, we've got to build a citywide network of connected, protected bikeways.
Banasiak, Duckworth, and Moeller honored at ATA awards reception
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The Active Transportation Alliance's annual awards reception gives credit to people who've made a difference to improve Chicagoland sustainable transportation in the past year.
How about increasing CTA staffing, reliability, and ridership as a crime-fighting strategy?
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What if we focused on getting the CTA workforce up to full strength as a strategy to increase reliability, ridership, and safety, by having more eyes in the 'L' cars to deter crime and bad behavior?
Lightfoot’s plan to spend $7.5M on paying people to burn gas narrowly passes City Council
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If you're unhappy that your tax dollars will be used to pay people to drive, now you know how to thank.
Data analysis found CTA has only been running about half its scheduled Blue Line runs
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A mobile developer found that has been fairly consistently running roughly 52 percent of its scheduled Blue Line service, with particularly bad gaps at night and on weekends.
Lightfoot Calls for ‘Zero-Emission’ Transportation Network
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The city is billing the plan as a "community-informed plan to mitigate climate-change impacts and position Chicago as a job-creator and economic leader in new economy."