How do cities get more women to ride bicycles? Photo by Mike Travis.
The Grid Chicago comments section is full of great ideas about how to improve transportation and transportation policy in Chicagoland.
The “Outside the Box” challenge presented by George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, should be all the motivation you need [...]
We want more readers. We want these three reading Grid Chicago, and getting involved in making sustainable transportation in Chicagoland better.
Grid Chicago launched with this article on June 17, 2011. At the time of this publishing we’ve written 351,597 words in 444 posts. We want to grow the number of Facebook likes from the [...]
Flyer for the Bike Chicago PSA Video Contest.
Do you remember Terry Bloom? Of course you do. He’s the producer of the Bicycle Film Festival in Chicago and I interviewed him last November. He and I met up Sunday night to share with each other our submissions for the 2012 edition of [...]
“On Bicycles” contributors John and Greg Borzo are showing off what you can win if you vote for the next alderman to interview. Photo by Serge Lubomudrov.
John has so far published interviews with four Chicago alderman about sustainable transportation in his project to interview all 50. He’ll publish an interview [...]
Photo of cycling on the Lakefront Trail by Mike Travis.
We’re trying to grow the number of people who “like” Grid Chicago on Facebook, a good place to publish our stories and engage readers. It’s an additional outlet for posting photos and timely information like events and construction updates. So we’re holding a contest where [...]
Grid Chicago is a blog about sustainable transportation matters, projects and culture in Chicago and Illinois, by John Greenfield and Steven Vance since June 2011.
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Side Projects
Western & Ashland BRT: Pros and Cons - This webpage summarizes the project details and describes the pros and cons for each of the 4 bus rapid transit scenarios
Get Lit: Use Lights At Night - A campaign to get bike lights onto cyclists' handlebars. Donate today
Crash Portal - Exploring bike crashes in the City of Chicago and elsewhere
Bike 2015 Plan Tracker - Monitoring the status of implementing the 153 strategies in the Bike 2015 Plan
Chicago Bike Map app - Carry a beautiful Chicago bike map on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, along with numerous, helpful points of interest and resources
















