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Automobiles are handy for long-distance travel, chauffeuring family members and schlepping groceries. However, privately owned, single-occupant cars are a profoundly inefficient and destructive way to move people around Chicago. If we want to fight congestion, improve air quality and make our city safer, more prosperous and more livable, we need to get serious about replacing as many car trips as possible with train, bus, bicycle and walking trips. Street space is finite. A relatively inexpensive, if controversial, way to make the most of our city's limited right-of-way is by reallocating lanes from the least spatially efficient mode, cars, to those that best move large numbers of people in cities—transit, biking and walking. Read More...
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