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Vote with Your Feet: Walking Lawrence Avenue
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. A stroll down Chicago’s most international street reveals delicious diversity. This article also runs on the website Gapers Block, www.gapersblock.com.]. I’ve hiked the lengths of many Chicago streets over the years: Milwaukee, Western, Halsted, Archer, Grand, 63rd, Kedzie, Belmont, 79th and King. So it’s surprising that it never occurred to me to hike Lawrence, with its wildly varied strips of shops and restaurants, representing countries from all over the world. I walk east from...
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Vote with Your Feet: Why is the Red Grand stop rehab taking so long?
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Why is the Red Grand stop rehab taking so long? This piece also runs in Time Out Chicago. Magazine, www.timeoutchicago.com.]. Q: It seems like the CTA Red Line’s Grand station reconstruction is taking forever. What’s the holdup? A: While the on-train announcement for this stop used to cheerfully declare, “This is Grand,” things have has not been so rosy for this rehab, coordinated by the Chicago Department of Transportation. Giải độc gan trị mụn. Cách giải độc gan đơn giản. Những ...
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Vote with Your Feet: Ron Burke, new director of Active Trans
http://votewithyourfeetchicago.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-with-ron-burke-new-head-of.html
Thursday, June 2, 2011. Ron Burke, new director of Active Trans. This interview also runs at www.timeoutchicago.com.]. Tell me about your background promoting green transportation. Why did you apply for this job? What strengths do you bring to the executive director position? What are the greatest challenges for Active Trans in the next few years? Another obstacle is that government funding is in short supply because of the economic downturn, especially at the state and local level. There’s jus...Bạn đan...
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Vote with Your Feet: Participatory budgeting in Rogers Park
http://votewithyourfeetchicago.blogspot.com/2011/04/participatory-budgeting-in-49th-ward.html
Thursday, June 2, 2011. Participatory budgeting in Rogers Park. Photos by Mulubwa Munkanta. This article also appears in Newcity magazine, www.newcity.com.]. Labels: Alderman Joe Moore. Around the United States and here in Chicago, city leaders are increasingly asking residents for suggestions about budget spending. Here in the 49th Ward, were going one step further. Through a novel experiment in democracy, Im not just asking for your opinion- Im asking you to make real decisions about how we spe...Bạn đ...
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Vote with Your Feet: The style council: Chicagoans talk bike fashion
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. The style council: Chicagoans talk bike fashion. Photo by Serge Lubomudrov). Taylor, Brackett, Bousted and Finch with PoCampo bags. My personal bike style can be summed up in four syllables: Po-ly-es-ter.”. Photo by Serge Lubomudrov). He asks the panelists to define “bike fashion” and all four women give similar answers to Taylor. “Bike fashion is about being able to live my life as I would otherwise and still be able to get around on my bike,” she says. If you’re going to b...
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Vote with Your Feet: Walking the length of Chicago's King Drive
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Walking the length of Chicago's King Drive. Strolling the length of Chicago’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive provides a lesson in the city's African-American history. This piece also runs in Gapers Block, www.gapersblock.com.]. As I’m leaving the convention center I see a middle-aged Asian couple in evening wear gracefully waltzing in the lobby. A guard tells me they’re practicing for a ballroom dance competition next week at the adjacent Hyatt. The I-55 Overpass at 24th Street ...
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Vote with Your Feet: Transit authorities discuss ways to fix the CTA
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Transit authorities discuss ways to fix the CTA. L-R: Schlickman, Renn, Wisniewski, Robling, Bey. A debate on the future of Chicago public transit is an “El” of a good time. The distinguished panel of experts includes Aaron Renn, who blogs about city planning at www.urbanophile.com. Examines the upcoming $4 billion-plus renovation of the northern segments of the Red and Purple lines. Robling argues that “Service, service, service” should be the CTA’s priority, al...Bey argues that...
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Vote with Your Feet: Stalled on the Bloomingdale Line
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Stalled on the Bloomingdale Line. Sixteen months after choosing a firm to design the Bloomingdale Trail, the city still hasn't awarded the contract. This article also runs in the Chicago Reader. VIOLATORS WILL BE PROSECUTED. At that time, CDOT spokesman Brian Steele told me that his department hoped to officially award the contract to Arup by the end of the year. "Once the contract is awarded, the contractor can start work right away," he said. In summer 2009, for a Reader. Steele...
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Vote with Your Feet: Chicago gets its first on-street bike corral
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Thursday, June 2, 2011. Chicago gets its first on-street bike corral. On-street racks in Portland (photo courtesy of City of Portland). This article also appears in Time Out Chicago. Chicago has over 72,000 on-street car parking spaces occupying a total area of over 3.6 square miles, more than twice the size of Hyde Park. This summer the city will help even the score for bicyclists by dedicating 140 square feet of roadway in Wicker Park for Chicago’s first on-street bike corral. Chicago bike activist Pay...
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Vote with Your Feet: June 2011
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Thursday, June 30, 2011. VWYF is on hiatus - come join me at Grid Chicago. Fellow green transportation journalist Steven Vance ( stevencanplan.com. And I recently launched Grid Chicago, a new blog about walking, biking and transit in the Windy City and beyond. Please visit us at GridChicago.com. Where I'll be posting new articles regularly. Vote with Your Feet. Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Making strides: the Chicago Pedestrian Plan. This piece also appears in Newcity. Fellow green transportation journalist...
