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Oboi Reed: Transportation Planning Needs to Become Less “Stale, Pale, and Male”
During his keynote speech at the Transport Chicago conference last Friday, Equiticity founder and president Oboi Reed called for increased ownership of the transportation planning process in areas...
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CPD: Police Are Using Bike Ticketing to Make Gun and Drug Arrests in...
In March 2017 the Chicago Tribune’s Mary Wisniewski uncovered massive discrepancies in the number of bike citations written in African-American communities versus majority-white ones. Despite city...
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Riding Through the Pain: One Year, One Day, and One Hundred Miles of Biking
Oboi Reed is cofounder of Slow Roll Chicago, an organization that promotes cycling on the city’s South and West sides, and founder and CEO of the Chicago-based mobility justice nonprofit Equiticity....
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Chicago unveils its West Side Vision Zero Traffic Safety Plan
Today Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a milestone in the Vision Zero traffic crash prevention initiative that was launched under her predecessor Rahm Emanuel, the release of the West Side Vision...
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West Side Vision Zero Plan downplays the role of police enforcement, stresses...
Last week, Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the release of the West Side Vision Zero Safety plan. The plan was written by the Chicago Department of Transportation with input from residents and...
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Decrease in police targeting of Black cyclists is encouraging, but there’s...
As the leaders of Black- and Latino-led bike groups like Slow Roll Chicago and Bronzeville Bikes have noted, our city’s lower-income communities of color stand to gain the most from the mobility,...
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Black advocates call for expanding Chicago’s scooter program with a focus on...
The dockless electric scooters have scooted from Chicago streets. Today marked the end of our city’s four-month e-scooter pilot on the West and Northwest sides, and the ten vendors are required to...
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Some advocates say the next Active Trans director should be a person of color
[This piece previously ran in the Chicago Reader.] For virtually all of the Active Transportation Alliance’s 34-year history, the bosses have been white guys. Local bike enthusiasts founded Active...
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Equiticity’s Oboi Reed returns to mobility justice work, discusses health...
Olatunji Oboi Reed the president and CEO Equiticity, a Chicago nonprofit that pushes for transportation equity and racial justice, returned to advocacy this summer after taking a break from the work...
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Mitigating risks on group bike rides with COVID on the rise
Community bike rides have been one of the few group activities deemed relatively low-risk by many during the COVID-19 pandemic. While Critical Mass riders wisely chose not to do the usual monthly event...
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Fighting for funding: ATA gathers leaders across sectors to discuss future of...
Last week, the Active Transportation Alliance gathered seven leaders in transportation advocacy, legislation, management, and labor to discuss the crisis facing transit systems nationwide as the...
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There’s movement on south Red Line extension, but service launch pushed back...
Ever since the Nixon era, Far South Siders have been asking for the Red Line, which currently stops at 95th Street, to be extended south to the city limits. They got some good news yesterday, as the...
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West Siders unite for the Build a New Day Austin Peace Ride
Residents of the Austin neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side gathered last Saturday morning for the Build a New Day Austin Peace Ride, a group bicycle ride with the goal of promoting public safety and...
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Black United Fund, Equiticity team up for a bike ride to promote cooperative...
Last Saturday, the South Shore-based based nonprofit The Black United Fund of Illinois, teamed up with the mobility justice advocacy organization Equiticity to host a ride entitled BUFI Bikes the Shore...
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Officials: As traffic deaths continue to climb, Vision Zero must be a top...
Update 11/8/21, 10:15 PM: CDOT provided the following explanation for the discrepancy in Chicago crash fatality numbers discussed below. These are numbers from August, they may have been revised...
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“Reimagining Mobility’’ series encourages Lawndale residents to explore...
While overcast and raining might not be the best conditions for a neighborhood walking tour, inclement weather didn’t stop the third weekly installment of the “Reimagining Mobility in North Lawndale’’...
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Equiticity expanded its programming in 2022, plans an even bigger 2023
2022 has been a big year for the mobility justice organization Equiticity. In May, the group earned IRS 501(c)(3) status, becoming an independent nonprofit. According to president and CEO Olatunji Oboi...
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Last week, the Active Transportation Alliance gathered seven leaders in transportation advocacy, legislation, management, and labor to discuss the crisis facing transit systems nationwide as the...
View ArticleThere’s movement on south Red Line extension, but service launch pushed back...
Ever since the Nixon era, Far South Siders have been asking for the Red Line, which currently stops at 95th Street, to be extended south to the city limits. They got some good news yesterday, as the...
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RTA webinar discusses benefits and models for mobility hubs
On Tuesday, the Regional Transportation Authority hosted the second of four webinars related to the agency’s new “Transit is the Answer” strategic plan. This week’s topic was mobility...
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