Transit and Traffic Safety
Transit and Traffic Safety
Announcement
Our efforts aim to increase public safety along the neigbhorhood's commercial corridors and spur investments that benefit legacy residents.
GPCC has conducted walkability studies along the Kedzie and Pulaski corridors, with support from the City of Chicago. We have supported numerous plans to improve pedestrian and traffic safety along commercial corridors, and have encouraged active transit options.
We supported a “complete streets” strategy along Kedzie Avenue with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) in 2014. During the summer of 2020, GPCC worked with the City of Chicago and Jason Ferguson and the GOlympians to conduct a walkability study along the Pulaski corridor. The walkability study will help inform the streetscape design along Pulaski Road.
Vision Zero Chicago
Our team contributed to Vision Zero Chicago West Side Plan, which shares recommendations for traffic safety to reduce traffic fatalities along select corridors in West Side communities. The West Side Plan is a guiding document that describes the traffic safety priorities of three West Side communities and the resources available or needed to address them. Austin, North Lawndale, and Garfield Park are the focus West Side neighborhoods identified as High Crash Areas in the Vision Zero Chicago Action Plan.
ETOD
As a collaborating partner to Elevated Chicago, GPCC supports the Elevated Chicago workplan to spur community engagement and develop inclusive projects around the Kedzie Green Line transit stop. Elevated Chicago launched in 2017 to present collaborative, community-led solutions to neighborhood displacement and inequities using an underutilized asset: our public transit system. GPCC contributed to the City of Chicago’s first Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) policy.
Learn more about ETOD on our Housing Plans and Policy page.
Vision Zero Chicago
Our team contributed to Vision Zero Chicago West Side Plan, which shares recommendations for traffic safety to reduce traffic fatalities along select corridors in West Side communities. The West Side Plan is a guiding document that describes the traffic safety priorities of three West Side communities and the resources available or needed to address them. Austin, North Lawndale, and Garfield Park are the focus West Side neighborhoods identified as High Crash Areas in the Vision Zero Chicago Action Plan.
ETOD
As a collaborating partner to Elevated Chicago, GPCC supports the Elevated Chicago workplan to spur community engagement and develop inclusive projects around the Kedzie Green Line transit stop. Elevated Chicago launched in 2017 to present collaborative, community-led solutions to neighborhood displacement and inequities using an underutilized asset: our public transit system. GPCC contributed to the City of Chicago’s first Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD) policy.
Learn more about ETOD on our Housing Plans and Policy page.
Other pedestrian safety and active transportation efforts have included coordinated wellness walks, community bike rides, and co-locating safety presentations with other community events.
