Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Chicago

Chicago Passes Huge Speed Camera Bill, So Why Can’t New York?

By Noah Kazis | Apr 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, Chicago’s Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance that would allow speeding enforcement cameras to blanket up to half the city. Here in New York, Deborah Glick’s bill to allow up to a mere 40 speed cameras remains stuck in Albany limbo, with 24 co-sponsors in the Assembly but none in the State Senate. Can […]

Will Rahm Emanuel Show America What BRT Can Do?

By Ben Schulman | Dec 19, 2011 | No Comments

With impressive urgency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has spent his first months in office retooling and reconfiguring how the “City That Works” works. Emanuel’s energy is evident in changes from beat-cop deployment to the push for a longer school day, but perhaps the mayor’s most tangible efforts can be seen in his ambitious transportation agenda. […]

TIGER III News Begins to Leak — Chicago Bike-Share Among the Winners

By Tanya Snyder | Dec 14, 2011 | No Comments

U.S. DOT is officially announcing the winners of the third round of TIGER grants tomorrow, but they give the news to members of Congress first so those members can brag about all the bacon they bring home. See below for a list of the grants we know about so far. Chicago’s Blue Line and bike-share […]

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Kinzie Street: The First of Many Protected Bike Lanes for Chicago

By Elizabeth Press | Dec 1, 2011 | No Comments

In his campaign for mayor, Rahm Emanuel pledged to make Chicago a more bike-friendly city. And in office, he set his sights high, aiming to construct 100 miles of protected bike lanes in his first term. His team wasted no time. Chicago DOT installed the city’s first protected bike lane on Kinzie Street before Emanuel’s […]

Chicago Proposes “Congestion Fee” On Parking to Fund Transit

By Noah Kazis | Oct 19, 2011 | 7 Comments

In last winter’s Chicago mayoral election, all the leading candidates made ambitious promises to increase funding for the city’s struggling transit agency. Now, with a proposed $2 “congestion fee” — really a downtown surcharge on the city’s parking tax — Emanuel plans to make drivers pay their fair share and use the proceeds to build […]

Rahm Emanuel Refuses to Say He’s “Not Against Bike Lanes”

By Brad Aaron | Jun 23, 2011 | 10 Comments

Okay. We can be envious now. We noted a little while back that in setting out to make Chicago the nation’s most bike-friendly city, Rahm Emanuel was setting a tone not heard before from a big-city mayor. Indications are that cyclists aren’t tolerated in Emanuel’s Chicago, but wanted. Here’s an excerpt from an Emanuel statement […]

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