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CDOT Reorganizes With an Increased Focus on Complete Streets
CDOT Project Manager Mike Amsden and Deputy Commissioner Scott Kubly. Photo: Steven Vance For weeks, rumors have been circulating that there has been a re-shuffling of job responsibilities at the...
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Divvy Bike-Share Bicycles Make Public Debut at Bike The Drive
Testing out Divvy. Divvy bike-share bicycles were on display at yesterday’s Bike the Drive post-ride festival in Grant Park, giving the public its first peek at the blue bikes which just arrived in...
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New Bike Lane Design on Milwaukee Should Reduce Crashes and Frustration
The bikeway upgrades on Milwaukee Avenue between Elston Avenue and Kinzie Street were completed Wednesday, adding bike lanes separated from traffic with parking and flexible posts. Other features...
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CDOT Provides an Update on Efforts to Ensure Divvy System Is Equitable
Checking out a new Loop docking station. Photo: Steven Vance Imagine if almost everybody who rode the Chicago Transit Authority, a public transportation system subsidized with taxpayer money, was...
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Divvy Data From the First Weekend and Beyond
Riding Divvy on Dearborn Street. Photo: Steven Vance In its first weekend of operation, Divvy bike-share saw 4,123 trips. Annual members accounted for 78 percent of the trips from Friday to Sunday,...
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South and West Side Residents Discuss Divvy Equity Issues
A Divvy rep talks with a potential member at McCormick Place. Photo: John Greenfield Last month I talked to Scott Kubly, deputy commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation, about the...
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Three Miles of Milwaukee Will Be Open for Car-Free Play This September
The 2013 Open Streets Wicker Park / Bucktown / Logan Square route. Although Chicago was one of the first U.S. cities to consider staging a ciclovía, a Latin-American-style event that creates temporary...
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Diving Into Divvy Stats: Bike-Share Trips Spike on the Weekend
Divvy use by daily pass holders peaks sharply on weekends, while annual member ridership dips slightly. Steven Vance is the self-described “data geek” at Streetsblog Chicago, but even a right-brained...
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The Challenge of Making Divvy Accessible to People Without Bank Accounts
Currently, to unlock 300 bike-share stations, you need a credit card. To use Divvy you must have a debit or credit card. Currently, there’s no way around that, so even though an annual Divvy pass is a...
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Quigley Hosts Roundtable on Sustainable Transportation in Chicago Region
Quigley with his folder, which was stolen from in front of the Capitol. Yesterday a number of heavy hitters in the local transportation scene showed up for a roundtable on sustainable transportation...
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Bike Coordinator Ben Gomberg Leaves CDOT After 17 Years
Gomberg, Klein and CDOT Deputy Commissioner Luann Hamilton at the Bike to Work Rally. Photo: John Greenfield It’s the end of an era. After serving as Chicago’s first and only bike program coordinator...
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200,000-Plus Warnings in 40 Days Proves We Have a Speeding Epidemic
Workers prepare speed camera signs near Gompers Park. Photo: Phil Velsquez, Chicago Tribune On Friday the Chicago Department of Transportation announced that nine automated speed enforcement cameras...
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Gabe Klein to Resign at End of Month
Gabe Klein walks across Chicago's first pedestrian scramble. Photo: John Greenfield With two and a half years of service under his belt as the transportation commissioner — not to mention 300...
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An Exit Interview With Chicago Transportation Chief Gabe Klein
Klein tests out the Loop’s first ped scramble. Photo by John Greenfield. [A shorter version of this article ran in Checkerboard City, John’s column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on...
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Like Gabe Klein, Deputy Commish Scott Kubly Is Calling It a Wrap at CDOT
Kubly with Klein at a conference. Photo: John Greenfield Last Tuesday was Chicago Department of Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein’s last day on the job. Three days later Deputy Commissioner Scott...
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City Explains Gap in Snow Removal From Protected Bike Lanes This Week
Kinzie bike lane plowed & salted except for bridge & of course , bridge sidewalk @transitized pic.twitter.com/UvuFzScEGR — Ding Ding Let's Ride (@DingDingLR) December 9, 2013 Residual snow in...
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Ex-CDOT Deputy Commissioner Scott Kubly Named Head of Seattle DOT
Kubly with Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, right. Photo: City of Seattle Chicago’s loss is Seattle’s gain. This afternoon, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray named former Chicago Department of Transportation deputy...
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