Action alert: Tell Sen. Kirk and Sen. Durbin to preserve funding for walking and biking!

Action alert: Tell Sen. Kirk and Sen. Durbin to preserve funding for walking and biking!

We need your help to save funding for walking and biking!

Champaign-Urbana installs stop for pedestrian signs

Champaign-Urbana installs stop for pedestrian signs

Like many communities throughout Illinois, Champaign-Urbana is educating its residents about the Must Stop for Pedestrians law.

Slowing down car traffic in Humboldt Park, Wepa!

Slowing down car traffic in Humboldt Park, Wepa!

Last night, 26th Ward Alderman Roberto Maldonado welcomed a group of concerned residents and advocates to the Humboldt Park Boat House to present ideas for making the park friendlier for bicyclists

Aren't we all pedestrians?

Aren't we all pedestrians?

Whether you predominantly travel to-and-fro by bicycle, car or foot, we are all pedestrians during the day.

Traffic calming in Edgewater

Traffic calming in Edgewater

Streetfilms has just released a fantastic short film on different traffic calming solutions focusing on the 48th ward's Edgewater neigh

Lace up your walking shoes for Walk to Work Day, April 1

Lace up your walking shoes for Walk to Work Day, April 1

Walking to work can provide you with a host of benefits.

Hit and run horror on State St.

Hit and run horror on State St.

I never get used to it: that pit-in-the-stomach feeling when I hear about a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian or cyclist.

Ready for Blizzardtopia 2011?

Ready for Blizzardtopia 2011?

Hope everyone is stocked up on candles, matches and comfort food for the Amazing Blizzard of Twenty Eleven!

Safe Routes to Jobs

Safe Routes to Jobs

Can you say 'stimulus'? Adding to all the other benefits of biking, walking and transit that we already know about (better health, safer streets, cleaner environment, world peace.........?), a

Need some help with your sidewalks?

Need some help with your sidewalks?

Now that some of the snow is gone, you may be noticing some gaps or damage to the sidewalks in your neighborhood, or maybe they have been that way for a while.  Either way the City of Chicago

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