CDOT, working with Metra and Amtrak, worked from the bottom up on this study, incorporating ideas suggested in previous studies, modifying others, and coming up with new ideas to anticipate continued growth in Amtrak ridership and commuter rail and the hopeful advent of high-speed rail. more ›

Bicycling magazine ranks the top 50 bike-friendly cities in America in their July issue which hits stands May 29 and Chicago is sitting pretty at number five on the list. more ›

The main priority of the plan is safety, according to Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein, with a goal of eliminating all pedestrian, bicycle and overall traffic crash fatalities within 10 years. You read that right. Klein believes it's possible. more ›

The Chicago Department of Transportation announced today they'll be installing over 1,200 energy-efficient street lamps on 200 blocks citywide as part of Mayor Emanuel's Building a New Chicago infrastructure renewal program. more ›

The Tribune looked at empirical data and discovered Emanuel's claims red light cameras made intersections safer were "based only on an informal analysis of traffic statistics." more ›

The Chicago Department of Transportation says they have only 300 open pothole repair requests, thanks to a combination of new strategies to fill them and the warm weather. more ›

Gov. Pat Quinn has until Feb. 6 to sign Senate Bill 965, aka "the Chicago speed camera" bill, into law or veto it. Public sentiment against it may make it hard for Quinn to approve of the legislation. more ›

Not everyone responded to the news that the South Side Irish Parade Committee was granted a permit to bring back the event after a nearly three-year hiatus with open arms and cries of "w00t." more ›

The initiative is the latest step in the program, which kicked off with the "One of 32" mannequin campaign where 32 mannequins decked in black were set up at points across the city to bring attention to the 32 pedestrian fatalities in Chicago last year. more ›

Dick Mell wasn't proposing bicyclists be licensed last week. Let us reiterate. more ›

This is more a case of Mell simply thinking aloud, especially as Klein moves to install over 100 more miles of protected bike lanes in the next four years. more ›

32 mannequins are dressed in black along Wacker Drive from Michigan Avenue to Wells Street. Each mannequin represents one of the 32 pedestrian fatalities recorded in Chicago last year. more ›

The plan announced by Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein calles for nearly 5,000 bicycles in 500 docking stations by 2014. more ›

Here are some of our favorite suggestions for the Chicago Pedestrian Plan. more ›

The reconstruction of Wacker Drive has forced downtown workers to find creative ways to get to work, negotiate the streets and just led to a general cock-up of foot traffic. But progress is being made. Randolph Street is open again and CDOT crews are working their way south. more ›

If these trucks prove to be successful in tackling the Chicago breed of pothole, some of the manpower CDOT dedicates to pothole repair can be switched over to street paving and other areas. more ›

The city is replacing the yellow glowing sodium-vapor street lamps with brighter, white glowing energy efficient metal-halide lamps. more ›

The Chicago Department of Transportation brings together all the bike traffic laws from the city and state in one convenient web page. more ›

So how's the protected bike lane on Kinzie Street working out? more ›

Motorists in the vicinity of LaSalle and Chestnut between 8 and 10 p.m. tonight may want to remember to come to a complete stop and allow pedestrians to cross the street. more ›

The City's new Transportation Chief wants to wire the city's lighted bus shelters to provide information about bus arrival times, car- and bike-sharing programs and other information. more ›

Driving on some Chicago streets is like navigating a mine field. The city is supposed to fix potholes because that's where our taxpayer dollars go. But if you're fearful a city employee won't do their job you can go through a middle man, another city employee. Hyde Park Progress details their experience. more ›

One thing we love about the Chicago spring warm up is the emergence of thousands of potholes. But fortunately, despite that crater you hit that sent your car's wheel cover careening off to the curb on your way to work this morning, the Tribune is reporting that according to the Chicago Department of Transportation, only 900 open potholes called in through the 311 non-emergency hotline are left to be repaired after the city took care of 225,000 potholes between December 1, 2008 and April 1 of this year. more ›

There's one thing many of Chicago's drivers will find positive from the latest city budget shortfalls -- the Chicago Department of Transportation has stopped installing the loathed red light cameras around the city for now because there's simply no cash to buy new ones. But that doesn't mean you can count on the main intersection near you to remain red light camera free -- the city is shuffling around their camera locations and will move 20 of the current 189 cameras elsewhere, as supposedly deemed necessary by which ones would "have the most positive effect on traffic safety." more ›