In the Press

The Future of Transit in Chicago

While the Emanuel administration has proposed only two BRT lines, proponents such as John Greenfield, the editor of Streetsblog Chicago, and Philip Enquist, a partner at urban planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, advocate transforming two dozen major thoroughfares—running both east-west (including Irving Park Road, North Avenue, and 79th and 95th Streets) and north-south (California, Western, and Cicero Avenues)—about one every mile in each direction. “[Public] transit will become a much more attractive alternative to driving when you can actually get places as fast as driving,” says Enquist.