Logan Square Walks becomes Break The Gridlock Member Organization

Logan Square Walks, after a period of relative dormancy, has elected to become a member organization of Break The Gridlock, an organization dedicated to promoting appropriate transportation in Chicago.  Logan Square Walks can now profit from being part of the larger organizational effort.  This move will not in any way change Logan Square Walks primary mission of Promoting Pedestrian Safety, Access, Awareness, and Community in Logan Square and beyond.

Traffic Calming Case Study

Much hay has been made about traffic calming devices at highly conflicted intersections. And with good reason. While signage has the potential to remind users to change their behavior, devices actually work within the existing infrastructure to modify behavior itself. Such devices include cross-hatched European-style crosswalks, raised crosswalks, and bumpouts (also known as bulbouts or curb extensions). The end result is increased safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists alike.

Walk Winter Press Release

Snow and ice on sidewalks makes it difficult, even dangerous, to get around in the winter. This goes double for seniors and children whose mobility can be hit hard by un-cleared sidewalks. Help us to keep Chicago walking year-round by remembering to shovel the sidewalk in front of your house. And while you're at it, why not help your neighbor with theirs, too?

Paseo Prairie Garden in Timeout Magazine

The Paseo Prairie Garden was mentioned in an article in Time Out Chicago, Issue 75, August 3-9.  Original article here.

Below is the text of the article:

Pedestrian Critical Mass Photos, Sept. 28th, 2005

Here are photos from the Pedestrian Critical Mass that took place on September 28th, 2005.

See the original press release for the event.

Pedestrian Critical Mass

PressRelease
September 23, 2005
Contact: 773-252-4657
773-562-9942 (cell)

For Immediate Release:

Walking is Not a Crime!
Pedestrians Put Foot Down to Protect Downtown Walkers

House and Garden Walk/Paseo Prairie Garden Ribbon-Cutting

Join us as one of the featured gardens of the 2005 Logan Square Preservation 24th Annual House and Garden Walk! Saturday, September 17, 10am – 5pm. Then stay for our official Paseo Prairie Garden ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6pm! A few words of dedication, thanks to our sponsors, live music from Tangleweed, John Greenfield, and perhaps others, and a chance to stop and smell the flowers with your families, friends, and neighbors. We’d love to see you there!

See more about the garden on the Paseo Prairie Garden Page.

 

Clean & Green Day 2005

Logan Square Walks needs YOU for

Clean & Green Day
Saturday May 14, 2005
9 am – 3 pm
Rain or shine

*A volunteer cleanup and planting of CTA Blue Line Logan Square station area*

Letter to Chicago Tribune Editor Re: Car Dependency

Logan Square Walks
3601 W. Belden Avenue
Chicago, IL  60647

April 4th, 2005

Chicago Tribune
Voice Of The People Editor:

Story: Chicago's First Pedestrian Critical Mass

This story ran in the Citylink Newspaper

Chicago's First Pedestrian Critical Mass
Citylink Newspaper, March 26, 2004
by Leah Pietrusiak

To change the streets, they poured out into them.

A group of about 100 left from the Empty Bottle and traveled down Western, into the intersection at Division, and formed a circle surrounded by anxious heated vehicles. And then to North where they reclaimed the crosswalks in an unmarked flow.

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