Complete Streets and Active Transportation Plan Call for Projects Active Transportation Alliance is pleased to announce the second round of the Healthy HotSpot Active Transportation Plan and Complete Streets Technical Assistance Program. Technical assistance grants will be awarded to: 3 municipalities to develop an Active Transportation Plan 2 municipalities to develop Complete Streets design approaches.  Municipalities must be within suburban Cook County to […]

Post image:  In recent months, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering and members of city council unanimously accepted an agreement to be a Family-Friendly Bikeways community.   In doing so, this North Shore community becomes the first Chicago suburb to collaborate with the Active Transportation Alliance on our campaign to build networks of bikeways that are comfortable places for people of […]

Post image:  In May, the Chicago Department of Transportation's Complete Streets program will be conducting its regular Downtown Bike Count. To help with this process, CDOT needs volunteers to assist in downtown Chicago. This bike count is conducted in the spring, summer and fall and records the number of bicyclists who travel in and out of Chicago’s Central Business District.  Volunteers will […]

Post image:  As citizens it’s our duty to actively participate in decisions that affect our community. People who live or work in Will County will soon have a chance to do just that at a series of four open houses to discuss transportation systems and future transportation needs and challenges.  Will County has already started gathering information to create a […]

Post image:  Every day in Illinois, five children are hit by a vehicle within one block of a school. Many of these crashes lead to life altering injuries and some are tragically fatal. 100 percent of them are preventable. Today we’re asking you to join us in saying: enough is enough.  Please click the link below to email your state […]

Post image:  People walk, run and ride bikes on the Lakefront Trail year round, but with spring blooming, trail users should expect trail use to grow over the next several weeks.  Before you head out to the trail, you should know about some major lakefront construction projects that could affect your trip.  Work began on the Navy Pier Flyover last […]

Post image:  On Wednesday, 42nd Ward Alderman Brendan Reilly proposed removing the Kinzie St. protected bike lane, Chicago's first protected bike lane and one of the most popular bike routes in the country.  Take action to tell your alderman you support keeping and improving the bike lane on Kinzie, and that you want safer streets for people biking throughout the […]

Post image:  A growing body of research tells us that businesses whose customers arrived by foot or bicycle visited the most often and spent the most money per month. And we've learned that retail sales greatly increase when businesses are located near a protected bike lane. That’s part of the reason that the Six Corners Association has teamed up with […]