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transit to work

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

Only 11 percent of Chicagloand residents ride transit to work.

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one third of work trips

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

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

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bike friendly business districts

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

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

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drop in kids biking and walking to school

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

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

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kids hit by drivers

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

Between 2006 and 2012, people driving cars hit nearly 19,000 children who were walking or biking in Illinois, and 54 percent of those children were hit within one block of a school.

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biking to work tripled

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

Biking to work more than tripled in Chicago from 2000 to 2012.

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daily bike trips

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

An average of nearly 125,000 daily bike trips are taken in Chicago, most of which — nearly 91,000 — are errand-related trips like going to the store or the library.

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Transit Deserts

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

The Chicago region’s current hub-and-spoke transit system leaves nearly half a million Cook County residents stranded in transit deserts.

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Why institutionalizing speeding is a bad idea

By Ted Villaire | March 17, 2015

Post image:  In the latest Chicago Tribune story on the city’s photo enforcement program, the reporter quotes national safety experts who seem more concerned with keeping cars moving as fast as possible than making our streets safer. The Trib uses its handpicked experts to make the case that Chicago’s yellow light times are too short and we should lengthen the […]

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Safe Routes to School Overview Factsheet Citations

By Ted Villaire | March 17, 2015

  Center for Disease Control, “Adolescent and School Health: Guidelines and Strategies”. Available online:http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/npao/schoolenvironment.htm; See also: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-trends/glo… Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Roadway Crash Data. Garrett-Peltier, Heidi. “Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts”. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. June 2011. Available online: http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/published_study/PERI_ABikes_Octo… Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Roadway Crash Data. […]

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