Oak Forest Fleadh: St. Patty's Parade, Open Streets, 5k, adult tricycle relay race and party time/excellent - Saturday, March 13

Get ready to jog, bike and partay…

Proposed bike path would link Oak Lawn to Cal-Sag

The Reporter reports on the draft Oak Lawn Bicycle Plan, prepared & presented by your friend

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Your kid won't hate you for your R-11 wall insulation

 Treehugger blogged yesterday on new LEED homes in communities with fa

 Oak Lawn will vote to adopt or reject the Oak Lawn Bicycle Plan on January 26.

From that day on, Oak Lawn streets will either begin to make its streets safer and more fun to ride on and across...or it won’t.

The recommendations in the Oak Lawn Bicycle Plan will guide the village toward bicycle friendly improvements the village can do quickly, like adding parking racks; within a few years such as creating a link to the Calumet-Sag Trail; and over the long-term, like taking on dangerous roads such as 95th St. and Southwest Hwy. The plan will help the village win the grant funding that will pay up to 80% or more of the cost of those improvements.

Adopting the plan sets Oak Lawn’s course toward sustainability and a higher quality of life. Rejecting the plan...doesn’t.

Filling the room with residents and cyclists who dream of and need a bicycle friendly community will tell the board to take leadership on making this plan a reality.

We need you in that room. Please attend the January 26 Village Board Meeting, 7:30 PM at the municipal center, Raymond and 95th St., just west of the library. Please consider riding to the meeting. Steve Buchtel, the consultant who worked with the village and residents to develop the plan, welcomes any of your questions beforehand. Reach him here: steve@activetrans.org, or 708/365-9365.

Redrawing the American (suburban) city

Five or six of the region's top city planners now work for towns in the Chicago Southland; traditionally, the Southland has been like the La Brea Tar Pits for municipal planners (who, admittedly, a

You're one step away from reforming your own health care

Are Active Trans Footprints coaches included in ideas for health care reform? No.

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The things you find

From our Footprints Coach, Mike Erickson

Calumet-Sag Trail: If dancin' and drinkin' will get it built, we'll do what we have to do

Pilgrim, mosey on over to this link here and belly up to the biggest hoedown since Roy & Dale’s reception - the Happy Trails Jamboree on

Different routes for different bikers

Footprints coach Gina Kenny

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Child Miles Travelled

Child Miles Travelled - the total distance we drive in a year chauffeuring our kids hither and thither - are growing faster than

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