Post image: Active Transportation Alliance compiles a list of events happening each month along the Lakefront Trail. See what's going on in the month of July so you can better plan your walking, biking or running route. For more information on conditions on the Lakefront Trail, check out our Twitter.   Saturday, July 2 Chosen Few Picnic Weekend X Music Festival 8 a.m.-9 p.m. […]

Post image:  The Wilmette Citizens for Active Transportation (WCAT) hosted their first annual Roll and Stroll to Town event on Tuesday, June 21 in celebration of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. The event featured good music, good food, and lots of bikes! Piggy-backing on the already-scheduled Music on the Green series, hosted by the Village of […]

Post image:  The Pace Suburban Bus system and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) want your input on improving transit options in Skokie, Lincolnwood, Evanston, Wilmette and the North Side of Chicago. The North Shore Coordination Plan is a project by Pace and the CTA that seeks to improve transit service in the North Shore area south of Lake Ave., north […]

Post image:  Active Transportation Alliance wishes Kathy Tholin, the longtime CEO of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, all the best as she prepares to leave CNT this summer to begin the next chapter of her life.  Appointed CEO of CNT in 2005, Tholin has spent the last 11 years directing and overseeing CNT’s research, demonstration and policy development. But she […]

Post image:  The tragic death of 29-year-old Blaine Klingenberg – who was killed was riding his bike up Michigan Ave. last Wednesday – has shaken Chicago’s bicycling community and attracted media attention. The facts of the crash are not yet known, but Klingenberg was an experienced rider who had just gotten off work as a bike courier. Bruce Kohn, owner […]

Post image:  The neighborhood greenway movement in Chicago is picking up steam.   The latest proposal for modifying a street so it’s safer for people walking and biking is targeted for the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood on Manor St. between Montrose Ave. and Lawrence Ave.  This is great news for the people biking and walking who use this half-mile stretch of […]

Pop-up demonstrations of complete streets projects are temporary street treatments that provide community members with a tangible visualization of how walking, bicycling, and public transit facilities can create safer, more engaging streets. Suburban Cook County municipalities hosted pop-up events in the summer and early fall of 2016. Here’s a collection of videos that showcase five of those events: Here’s a […]

Post image:  I had all sorts of adventures on bicycles as a kid. We had unfiltered, unsupervised and unrestricted fun.   In the 70’s, we popped wheelies, we rode with no hands and rode far from home only to reverse course immediately when the streetlights came on.   Fast forward, family priorities changed and there just aren’t as many children’s […]

Post image:  Protected bike lanes (PBLs) are for more than just Chicago and directly-adjacent suburbs. Aurora, welcome to the (growing) club! On May 13, the City of Aurora officially opened a half-mile of curb-protected PBLs on River St.   The new bikeway serves those biking for transportation and closes the last major gap in the 60+ mile Fox River Trail […]