Post image: If you’ve been walking around your neighborhood lately thinking of all the ways walking or biking could be improved, now is a good time to contact your alderman and propose these changes. Every year the City of Chicago allocates $1.32 million dollars in “menu money” to each alderman for use on capital improvements in their ward. This budget is […]

Post image:  Every trail needs a staunch advocate. For the Major Taylor Trail on Chicago's South Side, Peter Taylor has played that role for many years. To recognize his tireless efforts, Active Trans will be giving Taylor a Public Service Award at our 30th Anniversary Soiree on Feb. 22. Taylor, who’s served as an Active Trans board member since 2005, helped […]

Post image:  With nearly 80,000 residents, Chicago's Little Village neighborhood has the smallest amount of green space per resident and the largest proportion of residents under the age of 18 of any Chicago community. Neighborhood schools are an essential part of the fabric of this dense, young community. They function as centers for local leadership development and community building, and […]

Post image:  At our 30th Anniversary Soiree on February 22, Active Trans will be giving U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski our Extra Mile Award for his continued support for cleaner, healthier transportation in the region.  Lipinski, representing Illinois’ Third District, is the state’s senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.  Among his recent accomplishments are reinstating a national commuter […]

Post image:  Last week Governor Rauner announced a proposal to add managed travel lanes to Interstate 55 under a public private partnership. If approved by the Illinois General Assembly, the project would add at least one lane in each direction to I-55 between Interstate 355 (Veterans Memorial Tollway) and Interstate 90/94 (Dan Ryan Expressway). The new lanes would likely operate […]

Post image:  The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) announced this week it has hired academic experts to review the city’s red-light camera program and determine criteria for future placement of safety cameras. Northwestern University’s Transportation Center, in partnership with experts from Texas A&M and Florida State, will lead the study and look at the impact of the technology in reducing […]

Post image:  The City of Rockford, Illinois has struggled to recover from many of the social and economic consequences of the recession and factors that preceded it, such as the decline of manufacturing and other important industries that had provided much of the life blood to the Rockford area.   The Rockford public school systems have failed to meet state […]

Post image:  It looks like biking from Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood to Evanston will become safer with Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT)’s proposed Neighborhood Greenways plan. At a recent meeting hosted by Ald. Joe Moore and CDOT, residents saw details of the proposal to add a bike route spanning more than two miles in the 49th Ward. In 2015, CDOT began […]

Post image:  Active Trans’ Safe Routes for Healthy Kids campaign aims to make communities safer for kids to live healthy, active lifestyles. Throughout the Chicago region, many of them aren’t able to walk and bike to school due to poorly designed streets. In the western suburb of Batavia, a group of local advocates made it a mission to change this. […]