Post image: It’s election season and the proposed rapid transit line on Ashland has been in the news. Unfortunately, though, there have been many misperceptions about the project going around and little focus on the positive impact it would have on our neighborhoods. Our Executive Director Ron Burke and Jacky Grimshaw, vice president for policy at the Center for Neighborhood Technology […]

Chicago, Ill., March 19, 2015 — Saying that the victims of traffic crashes are being forgotten in the debate over traffic safety and red light cameras, transportation advocates today called on Chicago’s elected leaders and candidates for elected office to support a comprehensive “Vision Zero” strategy to consistently reduce traffic injuries and eventually eliminate traffic fatalities. In addition, they recommended […]

In Chicago, an average of 60 people are injured or killed every day in traffic crashes; 12 of those people are biking or walking. 

Roughly every three days, one person biking or walking is killed by someone driving a car in the Chicago region. 

Maintenance and simple improvements to increase reliability could save Illinois train commuters more than 800,000 hours in delays every year.

Only 24 percent of jobs in the region are accessible by transit in 90 minutes or less by a typical resident — and that number drops to 12 percent in the suburbs.

Only 11 percent of Chicagloand residents ride transit to work.

About one-third of all work trips in Chicago are comprised of people biking, walking or riding public transit.

More than 60 businesses now offer special discount programs and events in Chicago’s first Bike Friendly Business Districts in Lakeview and West Town.

Half of school children walked or biked to school in 1969, but only 13 percent were doing it in 2009.