Transit
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Transit Architecture Media Think of it as a 52-story storefront
Posted by Michael Miner on 02.16.12 at 12:41 PM
If the trains arrived too quickly at the State and Grand subway station to give me time to wander around the platform examining things, or if the new Area Cultural Map the Chicago Department of Transportation has hung on the platform walls of the remodeled station weren’t so darned attractive, I wouldn’t be writing this.
But the trains don’t and the map is. The station is so much bigger and brighter and cleaner than it used to be that it’s replaced foreboding with excitement in the hearts of visitors stepping out into Chicago there. And the map adds to that excitement—it’s a handsome guide to the neighborhood’s architectural wonders that explains where to find them and why they’re worth going out of your way to see.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Transit Politics Clout City Why Rahm and Forrest blame the unions—because it works
Posted by Mick Dumke on 12.16.11 at 02:30 PM
It was after 8 PM and I was on the Grand Avenue Red Line platform, and I’d been waiting a while, wondering if another train would ever show up …
I realize, given the nature of our existence, that lots of stories start this way. That is to say, given our existence in Chicago, which is to say, given the fact that the CTA isn’t quite reliable.
Bottom line: I wasn’t too surprised when ten minutes of waiting became 12, then 15.
Eventually a muffled voice came over the PA system to inform us what was going on:
“Hsxawc faoaknt xbt aybalf!”
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Bicycling Transit Flotsam and Jetsam Cycling Rainy biking on the Lakefront Trail
Posted by Julia Thiel on 11.08.11 at 12:44 PM
Biking in the rain can be kind of fun in the summer, but the colder the weather gets, the less pleasant it becomes. For the last couple hours of work yesterday, I had the same internal debate I always have when the weather's dicey: to bike or not to bike (in this case, from the Reader office in River North up to west Rogers Park, then home to Ukrainian Village later in the evening). As usual, this involved obsessively checking weather.com (even though I know how often it's wrong) to see what the odds of rain would be later in the evening, as well as figuring out possible routes via public transit. I also considered going home to get my car first, how much longer that would take, and how much sitting in traffic on the way up would make me hate the world. And as usual, biking was the fastest and most convenient option, so I took my chances that my ride home would be rainy.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Transit Stories of the el: Oh, L No!
Posted by Julia Thiel on 10.05.11 at 12:23 PM
- Image from Keith Levit on Shutterstock
Monday, October 3, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Cycling Eco Open Streets on State Street
Posted by Julia Thiel on 10.03.11 at 02:24 PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Eco Cycling Chicago to get a large-scale bike-sharing program
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.21.11 at 04:45 PM
Chicago Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein announced today that Chicago will implement a large-scale bicycle-sharing program next year, the Sun-Times reports. The plan is to have 3,000 bikes available from 300 docking stations around the city by next summer, and then add another 2,000 bikes and 200 stations over the next two years. Members would get free use of the bikes for the first 30 minutes, then be charged a rental fee; the focus of the program is short trips around the city.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Transit Lit & Lectures Books Dmitry Samarov talks about Hack: Stories From a Chicago Cab
Posted by Jerome Ludwig on 09.20.11 at 12:30 PM
- Andrea Bauer
- Dmitry Samarov
The cab is his "own private little theater for one," he says.
Samarov has promo events upcoming on 10/1 at the Rainbo, 10/4 at Myopic Books, 10/17 at the Mayfair branch library, and 10/26 at the Whistler.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Broken Transit On liking Amtrak, or not
Posted by Sam Worley on 09.19.11 at 01:19 PM
- Robert Couse-Baker
Transit Politics Clout City A sociological case study: Why Chicagoans don't care about teachers . . .
Posted by Ben Joravsky on 09.19.11 at 11:04 AM
As part of my mission to understand why ordinary Chicagoans don't give a shit as Mayor Rahm tries to turn public school teachers into serfs, I board the Brown Line for the morning rush hour....
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Eco Cycling Park(ing) Day photos
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.18.11 at 12:53 PM
- Urban Habitat Chicago
