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Post image: For the past 25 years, the Active Transportation Alliance has encouraged new bike commuters to get out and ride through the Bike Commuter Challenge. The challenge promotes bike commuting as an easy, fun and environmentally-friendly activity. Throughout the challenge’s history, it’s been the job of our team leaders – our bike commuting evangelists – to create and recruit teams […]
Post image: Started in spring of 2014, Kids on Wheels is the Active Transportation Alliance’s flagship bike safety educational program for school-aged children in the Chicagoland. While we know that safe bicycling is best taught through doing, often we have found that schools are unable to commit to sustained programming as a result of the logistical challenges inherent to putting […]
Post image: The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) held a meeting to gather community input on the Blue Line Forest Park Branch Vision Study. CTA representatives spoke to residents and commuters about accessing stations, customer experience and station improvement concepts. The Blue Line Forest Park Branch is 55 years old and in desperate need of improvement. The line saw an average of […]
My life was forever changed when my husband, Jay, was killed in 2014, struck from behind while riding his bicycle by a then 89-year-old driver returning home at dusk in a rental car after visiting his wife in a nursing home. A volatile combination of circumstances. On a well-lit major Chicago street the driver did not see the grown man on […]
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 […]
BRT is a state-of-the art bus system that provides the reliability and speed of rail, but at the fraction of the cost. Although it started gaining momentum in the United States, the city of Eugene, Oregon, was one of the first cities to adopt BRT. In the mid-90s, the Lane Transit District (LTD) looked into improving bus service in Eugene […]
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 […]