Strengthening Transit Through Community PartnershipsOur Work
Topic: Transportation
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topics: Environmental Justice, Transportation
The United States spends more than $200 billion annually on transportation system operations, maintenance, and capital projects. Could feedback from people who live and help lead community-based organizations in the places where those funds are being spent help ensure better investment and funding...
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topics: Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Housing, Transportation
CNT is excited to announce a new partnership with the Chicago Architecture Center to develop the Chicago Community Planning Academy. The Chicago Community Planning Academy creates a thriving community of empowered participants who actively engage in formal planning and design processes to...
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topics: Policy, Transportation
Advocates want the proposed North DuSable Lake Shore Drive to accommodate more transit access and climate-friendly solutions than the current proposal includes. ChiStock Images photo Center for Neighborhood Technology is a proud member of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition and partner of Better...
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topics: Sustainable Economic Development, Transportation
We and the American Lung Association are part of the federally funded STELLAR project to promote equitable transportation electrification and decarbonization in communities. About a year into the work, we're finding that expanding access to clean transportation looks different in each STELLAR...
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topics: Climate, Environmental Justice, Transportation
We’re joining other groups across the country to advance racial and environmental justice through equitable electric mobility.
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topics: Climate, Environmental Justice, Transportation
During our recent Chicago Truck Data Portal project, cameras counted 5,159 trucks and buses, 129 pedestrians, and 53 bicyclists in 24 hours at West 41st Street and South Pulaski Road in Archer Heights. Truck count researcher and Urban Resilience Associate Paulina Vaca reflects on how supply chains...
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topics: Environmental Justice, Technical Assistance, Transportation
Supporting Transportation Electrification: Leadership, Learning, Assistance, and Resources
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topics: Data Analysis, Housing, Transportation
Continuing our series digging into the H+T Index, today we highlight what we learned about who uses our most popular tool from a recent user survey. We received 117 survey responses. While that represents just a fraction of the H+T Index’s regular monthly user base — the tool is accessed more than...
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topics: Transportation
While travel decisions can be deeply personal, decades of (often racist) land use and transportation policies and practices help determine them. Exhibit A is policies and practices that have prioritized car-centric designs that among other harms escalate greenhouse gas emissions and traffic...
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topics: Climate, Policy, Transportation
Imagine tomorrow, all vehicles in the world suddenly became battery powered. Would that achieve all our climate and environmental justice goals? Not exactly. What will help close the gap between equity and climate goals is an electrification transition that follows the principles of the Towards...