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every three days

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

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

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transit maintenance

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

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

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access to jobs via transit

By Ted Villaire | March 18, 2015

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.

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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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