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Provide On Demand Public Transportation Options

Peoria, Illinois
Peoria’s public transportation system is a critical asset that moves residents and visitors throughout our city. While Uber and other ride-sharing technologies have raised society’s standards for real-time feedback in the realm of mobility, public...
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Paint crosswalks across speer blvd at cherry creek trail exits

Denver, Colorado
The cherry creek trail is a great asset to our community as it provides safe and easy transportation in a beautiful environment through the city for cyclists, pedestrians, in-line skaters, families, and more. however, connections to the trail are ...
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Turn the road on the 1700 block of Fletcher into a park

Chicago, Illinois
Since the 1700 block of fletcher is basically a one block long road that t's on both ends, mostly used for parking or the random person that speeds down it because they are on the wrong street. it would be great tear out the roads and sidewalks ma...

Regenerate Chicago Neighborhoods

Chicago, Illinois
Regenerate Chicago Neighborhoods is a high school curriculum focused on civic engagement, activism, and service learning. Students build a better understanding of built and natural environments and learn how they can be active change agents. The c...

Extend the 606/Bloomingdale Trail to Connect to East Riverbank and Cortland

Chicago, Illinois
Connecting this site into the 606 was suggested by a couple other people in comments on other ideas, so I'm adding it since it's a great idea on its own. The Bloomingdale Trail could be extended east over the Chicago River to connect with a new ri...
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Improve Wrightwood Park

Chicago, Illinois
Wrightwood Park is a beautiful, medium-sized park located at Ashland and Wrightwood. For many people in the Lincoln Park and Bucktown areas, Wrightwood Park is the closest and most convenient park to visit. However, in recent years, there have bee...
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Superloop Rapid Streetcar

Chicago, Illinois
The Superloop rapid streetcar: - Links major destinations together by world-class modern transit that’s easy to find, simple to navigate, and fun to ride. - Connects the West Loop train stations to Navy Pier and the Museum Campus. - Connects M...
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Add bus stop shelters along streets in Oak Park's residential areas to increase ridership

Oak Park, Illinois
Well-designed bus stop shelters will make more people aware of the opportunity to ride the bus and protect would-be riders from the elements. The shelters would include a concrete pad that would connect to the existing sidewalk/ramp. The roof and ...
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Create new opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship for residents

Chicago, Illinois
Our residents need quality jobs in our community and more opportunities to launch their own businesses. Certainly attracting new businesses to Belmont Cragin will help provide more local jobs. We will also connect local businesses to local workers...

Motorized trolley circuit: connecting roads for minimal cost and maximum connectivity

Chicago, Illinois
Click here to access my google map (warning, this website minimizes all letters for some reason. on the link after the "=", letters in " zfmr6v" are lower case, "scqev" are capitalized, "8.kq" are lower case, then "b" capitalized, "7w" is lower ca...
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Make the Park Near the Cumberland Blue Line Station More Accessible

River Grove, Illinois
I chose the Cumberland Blue Line Station area as my site to improve. The Blue Line Station is massive; there are 1600 parking spaces available, and it is near O’Hare International Airport. It’s also near the Des Plaines River, which winds through ...
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Safer streets for economic growth

Columbus, Ohio
Using tax data, we can analyze the impact of street re-design and transportation enhancements on retail businesses. The New York City Department of Transportation compared sites where a variety of improvements had been implemented by the DOT t...
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Connect the Civic Center to the River

Peoria, Illinois
By creating a shared street concept on Fulton Street, the city can create a single, straight, park-like thoroughfare that passes from the Civic Center/Town Hall block, through downtown, in-between the Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar Visitor's Ce...
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Adopt and rename the i-670 trail

Columbus, Ohio
The east-west i-670 trail is named after the interstate it runs next to. i believe this trail needs to be renamed with something more representative of it's surroundings. it connects the alum creek trail to the scioto and olentangy greenway trai...
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Warehouse Trolley

East Peoria, Illinois
This will help solve connectivity, storm water back up, transportation to work and retail, a great attraction, and get people to the park.
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Museum Campus Tram System

Chicago, Illinois
A Low-speed Tram System, capable of operating on the sidewalks with pedestrians, or on their own paths -- could be easily created to transport Tourists (and Workers) between the different Attractions that compose the Museum Campus/McCormick Place/...
museum-campus-transportation-study

Creating Smarter Infrastructure

Peoria, Illinois
Cities across the globe are beginning to leverage public infrastructure such as lamp posts to serve multiple purposes. The result is a network of "connected streets" can improve the lives of the city's users while creating more efficient and effec...
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Add East-to-West Public Transportation

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Add public transit service that travels east to west through the site and connects neighborhoods on both sides of the Chicago River / Expressway.
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Partner with Business Development Groups

Chicago, Illinois
Partner with Business Development Groups to connect residents to jobs in nearby areas.
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Develop Hospital Campus Expansion and Lower Main Street Corridor Improvements Plan

Peoria, Illinois
The winding streets of the medical campus are made more compatible with the surrounding grid, continuing the pedestrian-friendly character of the downtown core. Confusing irregularities are repaired and create new development potential. Fulton St...
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Waldron/16th Street overpass

Chicago, Illinois
One of the main problems in getting to or from the Museum Campus is that traffic often snarls at the intersections of McFetridge, Lake Shore Drive, Columbus, and Roosevelt, which is the only practical way from downtown into the area. There is also...
museum-campus-transportation-study

CTA Line for Southeast Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
Recently some groups have been calling for Metra to convert to an "L"-like timetable with trains running every 10 or 15 minutes. http://chi.streetsblog.org/2016/01/1...ike-the-cta-l/ But I have another, crazier idea. In 2013, CTA pulled all ...
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Whitman Street Interchange Project

Rockford, Illinois
Let’s remove the Whitman Interchange and open up this 25-acre area for residential and commercial development. It would be replaced with a standard street system that would connect the existing neighborhoods with downtown, Madison Street, the Riv...
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LISC Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
LISC Chicago connects neighborhoods to the resources they need to become stronger and healthier. Established in 1980, LISC Chicago's flagship program, the New Communities Program, supports quality-of-life planning in low-moderate income neighborh...