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- Infrastructure Woes or Opportunities?
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- Anyone who has wasted hours each day
commuting to work, sat in traffic for an hour as a freight train inched by,
waited endlessly for a bus only to have four arrive at once, or paid a week’s
wages for a short plane flight can vouch for the inconveniences, inefficiencies,
and travesties of…
- Trying to improve community through public transit, pedestrian access
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- Like most Chicagoans,
Serena Armstrong loves taking a stroll along Lake Michigan.
But to get there from her home in Bronzeville, she has to walk one of the
neglected and dilapidated pedestrian bridges that stretch over Lake Shore
Drive.
“I like to walk down by the lake, but I’m not…
- Tangled traffic costs Chicago $7 billion, group says
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- The typical Chicago driver spends long stretches each
morning staring at brake lights. Not only is that tiresome, it has staggering
economic costs, according to Maria Saldana of the Metropolitan Planning
Council.A recent study estimates that people in the six-county Chicago
area waste about…
- Chicago's most 'walkable' neighborhoods
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- Magazines like to call Chicago a fat and stressed out city. But
there's hope for us.
We're also one of the most walkable cities in the
country, according to the creators of the Walk Score, which helps people find walkable places to
live.
Simply type in your address; the Walk Score…
- True tab for dream home includes transportation costs
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- When most people shop for a home, their minds are on
financing and floor plans, not the details of their daily commute. They’ll look
up the local school system’s report card, but they probably won’t test drive the
area roads at rush hour. Many will value a garage or indoor parking spot, but…
- Info Junkie: Growth watcher
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- MarySue Barrett, 43, is president of
the non-profit, pro-growth Metropolitan Planning Council
and tracks planning
and development issues, politics and intrigue. Where she looks:
Rich Miller's
www.thecapitolfaxblog.com
for
"who's angry at whom, the substance and…
- Considering a fee to drive on Randall Road
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- Congestion pricing: Regional planning group examines ways to encourage conservation and pay for transit
- African Americans are Hopeful About Their Future in Chicago but Lack a Clear Pathway to Success
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- Chicago Urban League releases powerful study and poll on the future of African Americans in Chicago, the first of its kind
- DISPATCH :: Rethinking the street
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- Jam-packed
sidewalk cafes, parents pushing strollers and an elderly couple sharing a rest
on a bench
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all
scenes from productive streetscape.
“Unlike
architecture, streets experience motion. It’s in the streets that we are most
human,” said Fred Kent, founder and president of…
- Panels sets sights on Park Forest action plan
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