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Kristen Green brings a ghost bike to the corner of Addison and Damen, where health coach Anastasia Kondrasheva, 23, was fatally struck on her bike by a right-turning truck driver in September 2016.

What’s Just? A Cyclist’s Dilemma After Being Injured by an Undocumented Driver

By John Greenfield | Aug 13, 2018 | No Comments

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

A sign, purporting to be posted by the L.A. Metro transit agency, says "Uber & Lyft Drivers - Please do not block the bus zone". Photo: Erik Griswold

Idea from Shared Use Mobility Conference: Charge For Access to the Curb

By Steve Vance | Mar 22, 2018 | No Comments

Tech can help cities deal with the onslaught of demand for vehicles to get to the curb.

The organizers of The Untokening, a transportation equity conference held in Atlanta last year. We had trouble finding a photo of a diverse panel discussion of transportation issues in Chicago. Photo: Photo: Argenis Apolinario

Let’s Stop Booking Majority-White Panels on Citywide Transportation Issues

By Lynda Lopez and John Greenfield | Aug 22, 2017 | No Comments

If you can't find anyone to sit on your panels who isn’t white, you need to reevaluate what your year-round connections to communities of color look like.

Two-thirds of the Untokening attendees were people of color. Photo: Tiffany Smith

“The Untokening”: A Frank Discussion of the Livable Streets Movement’s Equity Challenges

By Jean Khut | Dec 16, 2016 | No Comments

When mobility-related social justice issues, such as gentrification and police abuse, come up, it often makes relatively privileged people uncomfortable.

Black Leaders Discuss Their Efforts to Promote Equity in Mobility Advocacy

By Jean Khut | Dec 5, 2016 | No Comments

Editor’s note: Streetsblog Chicago sent writer Jean Khut to Atlanta last month to report on The Untokening and share lessons from the event that could be applied to transportation justice efforts in our city. We’ll be running another post on the main Untokening activities in the near future. In early November, mobility advocates from across […]