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Parents take their children trick-or-treating on Halloween in the Englewood neighborhood Thursday evening in Chicago.

@ronythebikeczar @slucy @UrbanEnviroIL Thanks I'll have another

@stevevance @streetsblogchi @GPrimosch @madisonsavedra @richsday @activetrans @BlockClubCHI @ChiAlderwoman @AldermanBurnett @cta @ctaaction 5 minute walk to a 147 stop.

Sigh... Ald. Hadden rejected plan for 52 units, 11 affordable, 9 car spots, 1/2 mile from CTA Red stop after the Not In My Backyard crowd complained about density, and demanded more parking. 👎 Block Club's @madisonsavedra reports. blockclubchicago.org/2024/10/17/rog… @stevevance @richsday

@Allinallnotbad @JosephPolitano There are zip codes where the city of Chicago is selling empty lots for $1 and there are zip codes where demand is rapidly outpacing supply. both would stand to benefit from modernized zoning, density, and permitting practices.

@JosephPolitano Not saying this isn't true but wouldn't it be the case that there would be little new building in Chicago even if it were easy to build due to the lack of demand for population loss? Those numbers look pretty good for a city actively losing population.

Chicago had done a decent job of allowing construction downtown but people treat it as if it's a YIMBY paradise when it adds fewer housing than SF/NYC. The primary reason the city is less expensive is because it is 1M below peak population and has a worse economy than LA/NY/SF.

@Shredded_teat @LilyBeansDad youtube.com/watch?v=jcGU4v… Greenway treatments, a few blocks changed to 1-way car traffic, biggest reconfiguration coming near Clark and Hayt Elementary.

@LilyBeansDad what was CDOT's proposal? can't find anything about it

last nights Granville meeting was illuminating despite some terrifying statistics about how unsafe that stretch is, support from 3 schools, & solid reasoning for the bike lane it seems that easy direct access is more important to some drivers than making the street safer

Chicago twitter team portrait!

@georgebell bsky.app/profile/alexca… btw - Divvy added scooter data this month. Made a couple quick charts on the Other App.

@ACannon_3 Any way you could split out scooter vs bike vs bike usage?

@DanielKayHertz @mollyfleck Existing building near me on Lincoln could have been remodeled into a 24 unit + retail, 0 parking project. Neighborhood association shot it down. Instead, 1/3 of the retail space and all of the basement are being converted to parking. Only 16 (presumebly more expensive) units.

@mollyfleck It would be good but honestly the proportion of the city with functionally binding minimums (ie, where developers would build less than they can legally do) is probably pretty low at this point

When will Chicago get with the times and eliminate parking minimums?

@StarLineChicago Hmm. Is this anything?

@StarLineChicago What is a hypothetical Green Line extension most likely to look like anyway?

@DanButtersChi @mollyfleck 600 Chicagoans and 1,715 Illinoisians total. This was not a survey by some bike advocacy group. The data comes from IDOT, duplicates are removed, and it is weighted to accurately represent demographics. idot.illinois.gov/content/dam/so…

@mollyfleck N= ?

People in my mentions: Cyclists are just a small, vocal minority, and Chicagoans would be happy to see all bike lanes ripped out tomorrow. Chicagoans:

@JGrantGlover Interesting. Do you know many miles of each road designation we have? Looks like more non-expressway traffic being directed to local streets, largely explainable by the rise of GPS and navigation apps?

Happy Friday! Here are two unrelated graphs for your enjoyment. The enormous spike on the second graph is when the speed camera threshold was lowered from 11 to 6 mph.

@notkavi “Can’t use phone” is a huge perk because it’s one of few activities that I can enjoy with being overcome by a crippling screen addiction.

Updates on biking experiment: 1. Biking to work really does not seem worth it. It takes me like 11 minutes once you take into account not being able to jaywalk and having to dock the bike. 15 minutes to walk. And I can't use my phone 🤧🤧

@StarLineChicago Chiclavia

@ksuwildkat @KFordRatings Looks like data scraping may be having a rough week 1. This is ESPN box score vs gameonpaper, Alan Bowman passing yards are off by 100...

@KFordRatings OK, not pointing fingers but Louisville jump 8 spots for beating Austin Peay while Oklahoma State drops 4 spots for beating SDSU? Also, UCF jumping 11 and Arkansas 17? Also, no movement for ND? Im assuming its small sample early season data stuff.

🚨Week 2 KFord Ratings Top 30🚨

@slucy It was literally the “Illinois Motorist Survey” up until 2015

The "T" in IDOT stands for "cars"

With some easy traffic re-routes and a road diet around Palmer Square you could expand the effective footprint of the park by roughly 115,000 SQFT- the size of two football fields. Maybe something to consider before opting to spend $222,000 on parking expansions.

There are broad generational gaps in who Illinoisans believe their streets should be for.

IDOT Survey Results are in: - Public Transportation, Passenger Rail, Bike and Ped infra expansions are broadly popular. Highways are not. - This is especially true among Chicagoans and 18-34 year old Illinoisans.

@streetsblogchi @ArielParrella @ChicagoDOT @AldermanLaSpata @activetrans @bikegridnow @ChiCritMass @bikelaneuprise @chi_streets @mikekeatinglaw @bkevenides Have the renderings for this redesign been published anywhere?

.@ArielParrella: Outrage after workers mistakenly removed bikeway along Palmer Square for diagonal parking. blockclubchicago.org/2024/08/29/nei… A petition has been launched against more parking spaces: "Keep Palmer Square Park from becoming a de facto parking lot." change.org/p/keep-palmer-…