Rezoning and improving bus transit along Chicago’s Western Avenue address the dual crises of transit and housing in a bold manner.
A person crosses North Western Avenue near the CTA’s Brown Line Station in Chicago on Oct. 6, 2022. is potentially the most exciting thing to happen to Chicago city planning in decades. It’s bold, it’s big, and it’s exactly the type of ambitious city planning Chicago needs to face our current challenges.Starting with rezoning, the study calls for converting about 4.5 miles of Western to mostly B3-3 zoning, which allows for denser mixed use-development. Chicago notoriously has no land use plan.
The second component of reimagining Western is improving bus transit by dedicating an entire lane of traffic to buses only. We can reduce traffic congestion significantly if we get less people in cars and more onto buses. After all, 50 people on a bus takes up less space than 50 cars. This reduced traffic, in turn, helps us hit our city’s climate goals.Editorial: The CTA is broken. Agency President Dorval Carter Jr. must go.
If buses get caught in the same traffic that cars do, ridership will be discouraged, and transit enemies will use it as an excuse to not implement it in other parts of the city. I’m optimistic to see implementation done correctly, however, as 17 out of 18 aldermen along Western support the bus transit plan . It’s time we join the ranks of world-class cities such as Amsterdam, Istanbul and Mexico City.
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