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Yearly Archives: 2020
Northeastern Lincoln Park in Chicago temporarily becomes a little less car-ridden
Many parks in large American cities seem to be set up more for automobile travel than for getting around on foot or even by bicycle. An example is Belle Isle Park in Detroit. The park has a very distinguished history. … Continue reading
Chicago River Trail: forty years to build a thirteen-mile recreational path in Chicago?
There has been talk of building a recreational path along the Chicago River for decades. The Friends of the Chicago River, a lobbying group, has been urging the construction of such a path since its inception in 1979. The second … Continue reading
Chicago creates yet another “shared street”
Chicago opened another “shared street” a couple of weeks ago: a 1.1-mile-long stretch of Dickens Avenue between Clark Street and Racine Avenue. Chicago uses the term “shared street” for what, in many American cities, would be called a “slow street”: … Continue reading
Chicago gets a “slow street,” sort of
Overcrowded sidewalks—a bad idea in a time of social distancing—have led many American cities to start a “slow streets” program, in which pedestrians and cyclists are encouraged to use the roadways of certain streets. Chicago came to this movement rather … Continue reading
The resilience of commercial streets in walkable urban neighborhoods
It’s been suggested that the Coronavirus Pandemic will turn out to be a disaster for stores on commercial streets in walkable neighborhoods. Most of these stores have had to close or at least to limit their operations during a lockdown … Continue reading
Another book “superstore” closes
I was a little shocked to discover in the course of a walk further south than I’d been for two months that the Barnes & Noble at … Continue reading
Change in population by “race” and Hispanic/Latinx status, Chicago area, 2010-2014/2018
The Census Bureau released the 2014/2018 American Community Survey (ACS) tract-level data last December, and I’m afraid I’ve been a little slow to download and analyze any of the numbers. One reason is that I didn’t think that there would … Continue reading
Pedestrian life in Chicago during the Coronavirus Pandemic
There have been hundreds of newspaper stories describing the emptiness of American cities during the Coronavirus Pandemic. This view doesn’t jibe with what I’ve observed at all. I’ll gladly admit that my experience during six weeks of “lockdown” (ever since March … Continue reading
Miami Beach Walk comes close to being finished
I recently spent a week in Miami Beach, where I was delighted to discover that, since my last visit there two years ago, what is now known at Miami Beach Walk had been more or less completed. This is a … Continue reading
Bangkok keeps building rail lines outward
I rode three new rail transit lines while in Bangkok last month: the extension of the MRT Blue Line west to Lak Song; the MRT Blue Line connection between Tao Poon and Tha Phra; and the BTS Light Green Line … Continue reading