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Post image: The hits just keep coming for people who ride transit, bike and walk in Illinois. Last week, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan introduced a "mini-capital bill" that would give […]
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Post image: Connecting Chicago to Lansing, Illinois, the Burnham Greenway Trail is a critical route for people walking and biking on the South Side of Chicago and surrounding suburbs in […]
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Post image: If you look around the U.S. for cities where exciting things are happening in public transit, you’ll notice one thing nearly all of them have in common: they’re […]
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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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Whether it’s at the neighborhood, regional or national level, Active Trans works with residents, lawmakers and community leaders to make biking, walking and transit easier and more inviting.