Even if you don’t personally know Kathy Schubert, there’s a good chance you’ve seen her riding around Chicago or volunteering at an Active Transportation Alliance event.
That’s because she not only puts on a lot of miles during the year — 6,000 is her record — but you tend to get noticed when you bike around town or across entire states with a miniature schnauzer riding in your basket.
Suzy, her former riding companion,
Getting around Chicago on a bike is not as daunting as it seems.
That’s what Linor Vaknin learned when she became involved in Active Trans’ annual Bike to Work competition (going on now and continuing until the end of the week).
Prior to the event, biking on Chicago streets was out of the question for her. Too hectic, too scary.
Then, during the Bike to Work competition in 2010,
What started in Palatine with a single school and about 30 kids in 2003 is now an annual spring affair expanded to 13 public and private schools and 1,300 students.
Bike to School Day, held the first Wednesday in May, is now a community-wide effort in Palatine. The success of the event is due to various groups — PTAs, a local bike shop, and school administrators — pulling together creatively to urge students to cycle and to do it safely.
This guest blog post was written by Brian Crawford, co-chair of Bike Walk Oak Park, an advocacy group that works to improve biking and walking in the near west suburb of Oak Park. The views expressed here by Bike Walk Oak Park are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Active Transportation Alliance.
With the April 2 municipal elections presenting Oak Park voters with 11 candidates for three village trustee vacancies,
Guest blog by SWOP Organizer Devonta Boston. Southwest Organizing Project is one of our Bus Advocacy Community Partners and mini-grant recipients. SWOP organizer Devonta Boston met with 60 individuals on the Southwest Side to discuss their experiences with bus service in their community:
During the time I spent doing relational meetings centered around bus advocacy, I have had the opportunity to learn a lot and heard varying opinions of local bus service.
Chicago, Ill: October 30, 2018 — Logan Square community leaders say conditions for people walking and biking on a high-crash stretch of Logan Boulevard must change so residents have safe access to popular local destinations.
The stretch from Rockwell Street to Lathrop Homes includes the notorious Logan Boulevard and Western Avenue intersection under the Kennedy Expressway, where people are asked to cross several lanes of traffic with limited lighting and poorly marked crosswalks.
Chicago, Ill: October 15, 2018 — Business leaders from across the Chicago region urged the next Illinois Governor to spend a “fair share” of state transportation dollars for a new, dedicated Bike Walk Fund.
The group of 27 CEOs recently sent a letter to Gov. Rauner and J.B. Pritzker asking the candidates to commit to spending at least $50 million annually on biking and walking projects if elected. Currently, the state spends very little of its own money on biking and walking projects that “enhance the safety,
Chicago, Ill: October 9, 2018 — School districts across Illinois are working to meet a new requirement to teach biking and walking safety while celebrating national Walk to School Day on Wednesday, October 10.
Illinois crash data shows nearly five children are hit by people driving every day in Illinois while walking or biking within one block of a school.
In August, Governor Rauner signed the Bike Walk Education in Schools Act (HB4799) into law.
Despite a growing awareness of the long list of benefits that trails can provide to communities, many trails in Chicagoland continue to be poorly maintained and difficult to access with too many dangerous crossings at busy streets.
A new plan from the Active Transportation Alliance highlights ways residents and officials can work together to overcome these obstacles and build a regional trail network that works for everyone in Northeast Illinois.
To showcase this new vision for improving trails throughout the region,
Media Contact:
Kyle Whitehead
Active Transportation Alliance
Managing Director of Public Affairs
(312) 216-0473
Chicago, IL, August 28, 2018—Every day in Illinois, an average of five kids are hit by a driver of a motor vehicle within one block of a school, and more are hit beyond the school zones. A bill that helps address this tragic daily occurrence while encouraging more walking and biking was signed into law by Governor Rauner on Friday.