Let's make walking, biking, and public transit safe and equitable options for getting around Chicagoland.

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Improve Riverwalk safety without banning biking

By Ron Burke | September 21, 2018

Active Transportation Alliance agrees with Alderman Reilly that bikes should be walked when the Riverwalk is crowded. However, we don’t support a complete ban on biking because there are many […]

Share your ideas about Chicago’s transportation future

By Kyle Whitehead | September 14, 2018

With a wide-open race for Chicago’s mayor and several competitive races for Chicago City Council, it will be critical to highlight Chicago’s most pressing transportation issues among candidates and voters in […]

Supporters share ideas for Chicago election platform

By W. Robert Schultz III | September 12, 2018

Residents from neighborhoods across the city believe future leaders of Chicago should make it a priority to build out a network of safe biking and walking infrastructure and increase access […]

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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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Transit

Compared to other major cities in the U.S. and abroad, our current transit system is drastically...

Bicycling

A lot has changed since our founding as the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation in 1985, but...

Walking

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