John Greenfield

Today marked the end of our city’s four-month e-scooter pilot on the West and Northwest sides, and the ten vendors are required to remove all of their vehicles, a total of 2,500, from the public way or risk having them impounded by the city. The Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Affairs and the Chicago Department of Transportation, which oversaw the test, announced today that the city is now launching “a wide-ranging and holistic evaluation” to decide whether the program should be expanded citywide and made permanent.

Bike and motorist deaths are significantly down compared to previous years, although pedestrian fatalities are up.

Rentable dockless electric scooters have about nine times the fatality rate of bike-share.

As Chicago’s dockless electric scooter pilot winds down to its eventual end on October 15, we’ve started to gain further understanding of the devices’ impact on our city.

Will the scooters be an asset to Chicago's sustainable transportation network, or will they introduce a new set of dangers and annoyances to urban life? Only time will tell.

The absurdity of the the ride-hailing model, in which everyone who possibly can takes a car to urban destinations, was laid bare during a disastrous Uber employee appreciation party Monday night at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in the dense Hyde Park neighborhood.

Concrete pedestrian safety infrastructure, such as sidewalk bumpouts and pedestrian islands, help make walking safer and more convenient, but concrete infrastructure can cost several tens of thousands of dollars to install. Earlier this month the village of Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, tried a relatively inexpensive, flexible strategy to test out an intersection improvement before committing to setting it in stone.

Kristen Green from Ghost Bikes Chicago installs memorials to fallen cyclists. But after she experienced traffic violence herself, she faced a moral predicament.

Their first project is to bring dockless bike-share to Chicago's South and West Sides.

The new Chicago law requiring vehicle side guards and safety mirrors will help prevent future tragedies.