CTAQC Members
Changing Direction: Transportation Choices for 2030 is the public's new agenda for transportation in the northeastern Illinois region. The report highlights the findings from the Connecting Communities Summits. The core themes of the report are for fundamental reforms in transportation planning such as: more transportation choice; inclusion of the public in transportation decision-making; re-investment in existing communities; investment to enhance land-use and quality of life goals; a safe and more accessible travel environment for all; a cleaner environment and preservation of open space; and equitable distribution of resources. Legislative recommendations are included.It is important for transportation planners in the region to know there is support for the report. Your organization's endorsement means you support the principles and strategies of the report. To endorse, please read Changing Direction: Transportation Choices for 2030, download and print the Endorsement Form, and fax to: 773-278-3840 Attention CTAQC, email to: ctaqc@cnt.org or mail to: CTAQC c/o Center for Neighborhood Technology, 2125 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647.
This Season's Highlights
Upcoming Conferences
Where Environmental Justice and Land Use Planning & Zoning Collide: A One Day Workshop for Local Officials, November 30, 2005, Burnham Conference Center, 122 S. Michigan, Suite 1600.
New Partners for Smart GrowthThe 5th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities will be held from January 26-28, 2006 in Denver, Colorado. Visit their website at www.newpartners.org to register.
Crosswalk Action
by Debbie Hillman, Evanston Transportation Futures, Pedestrian Committee
As Chicagoland vehicle traffic increased over the last few decades, many of us would silently bemoan the frenetic pace, the increasing danger, and the increasing marginalization of non-motorized transportation - especially the pedestrian! Occasionally, some of us would visit California and marvel how motorists seemed to stop at crosswalks. We would bring back wondrous tales of civilized drivers and wonder why we didn't have the same civility in Illinois.
The fact is Illinois does have a pretty good law protecting pedestrians in crosswalks. The law says that drivers must yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, marked or unmarked, until the pedestrian is at least half way across the street. What we don't have is the transportation education, the pedestrian culture and the enforcement. Many people, including government officials, don't know about the law. Evanston's Transportation Future (ETF) is trying to change that. ETF's Pedestrian Committee is collaborating with the Evanston Police Department to increase enforcement and spread the word about Illinois' crosswalk law.
At the suggestion of Evanston's police chief, ETF members will do data collection at key unsignaled intersections, noting the total number of vehicles, the number of drivers who don't yield to pedestrians, and the number of pedestrians who cross illegally.
But Evanston is just the beginning. Since the crosswalk law is statewide our long-term goal is to take our efforts across the region. This is why we have teamed up with the Center for Neighborhood Technology's Pedestrian Program, Walkers Win! www.walkerswin.org and Logan Square Walks www.logansquarewalks.org. Together we will work to change the conventional assumption that cars have the automatic right-of-way. Not in Illinois they don't. Pedestrians have equal right to our intersection. Please join us in helping to work for the day when all of Illinois will be safe and comfortable for pedestrians.
Contact Debbie Hillman at 847-328-7175, DLHillman@sbcglobal.net or CNT's Pedestrian Program Manger Ben Helphand at 773-269-4056, ben@cnt.org.
Back to topList of Endorsers as of 2005
original co-sponsors are italicizedOrganizations
2nd Dist. Volunteer Political Org.8th Day Center for Justice
Access Living
Action Coalition, Inc.
Albany Park Chamber of Commerce
Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 241
Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 308
American Indian Economic Development Association
American Lung Association of Metro Chicago
Americans for Democratic Action
Andersonville Development Corporation
Anti-Racism Institute of Clergy and Laity Concerned
Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility
Association House of Chicago
Association of Workers Rights
Bethel New Life, Inc.
The Better ME Foundation
Big Medicine
Blue Line Transit Task Force
Bolingbrook Earth Watch
Break the Gridlock
Broken Arrow
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 184
Business and Professional People in the Public Interest
Calumet Ecological Park Association
Campaign to Build Illinois Transit
Campaign for a Free and Clear Lakefront
Center for Neighborhood Technology
Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University Chicago Area Mennonite Ministries
Chicago Association of Neighborhood Development Organizations
Chicago Area Project
Chicago Associates Planners and Architects
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless
Chicago Commons
Chicago Community Loan Fund
Chicago Disciples Union (Christian Church, Disciples of Christ)
Chicago Jobs Council
Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Chicago Metropolis 2020
Chicago Neighborhood Development Partners
Chicago Recycling Coalition
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
Citizen Action - Illinois
Citizen Advocacy Center
Citizens Organized for Sound Transportation
Citizens Transportation Coalition
Citizens Taking Action
Citizens for a Healthy Environment and Safe Environment
Citizens for Reasonable Taxation
Community Action Group
Community Renewal Society
Community TV Network
Community Workshop on Economic Development
Congress for New Urbanism
Conservation Foundation of DuPage
Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce
Council for Disability Rights
Covenant Development Corporation
Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform
DuPage Environmental Awareness Center
DuPage Volunteer Stewardship Group
Economic Youth Organization, Inc.
Edgewater Development Corporation
Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
Evanston Bicycle Club
Evanston Interreligious Sustainability Circle
Facts About Bridges
First United Church of Oak Park
Fox Watch
Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail
Friends of the Chicago River
Friends of the Great Western Trail
Friends of the Parks
Friends of Thorn Creek Woods
Garfield/Austin Interfaith Network
Goodcity/Chicago
Greater North Pulaski Development Corporation
Greater Southwest Development Corporation
Greater Washington Park Community Development Corporation
Grey Line Rapid Transit System
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group
Hispanic Housing Development Corporation
Housing Opportunities for Women
Human Action Community Organization
Humboldt Park Economic Development Corporation
Illinois Alliance for Aging
Illinois Citizen Action
Illinois Coalition for Farmland Protection
Illinois Public Interest Research Group
Illinois Sierra Club
Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization
Inner City Youth Foundation, Inc.
Interfaith Council for the Homeless
Interfaith Housing Center of the North Suburbs
Interfaith Organizing Project
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Lake County Conservation Alliance
Lake Forest Openlands Association
Lake Michigan Federation
Lawrence Avenue Development Corporation
Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities
League of Women Voters: Illinois
League of Women Voters: Chicago
League of Women Voters: Elgin
League of Women Voters: Winnetka, Northfield, Kenilworth, Lake Forest
Lester & Rosalie Anixter Center
The Liberty Prairie Conservancy
Lincoln-way SCAT
Little Village Community Council
Livable Communities Alliance
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Logan Square Walks
Marcy-Newberry Association
McHenry County Defenders
Metro Seniors in Action
Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund
Mid-America Institute on Poverty/Heartland Alliance
Midwest Center for Environmental Science and Public Policy (formerly Citizens for a Better Environment)
Midwest High Speed Rail Association
Midwest Latino Health Research and Policy Center
Milton Township, DuPage Democratic Party
The Ministers Conference of South Cook County, Inc.
NAACP Evanston/North Shore Branch
Naperville Bicycle Club
Near Northwest Arts Council
Neighbors Influencing Fifty-Three Improvement
Northeastern Illinois Americans for Democratic Action
Northern Illinois Regional Planning Authority
Nuclear Energy Information Service
Nuevos Horizontes/Triton College
Office for the Ministry of Peace and Justice, Archdiocese of Chicago
Ogden Environmental Club
Openlands Project
Palatine/Willow Road Community Mobilization Team
Partners in Community Development
Pilsen Alliance
Poplar Creek Valley Concerned Citizens
Prairie Woods Audubon Society
Progress Center for Independent Living
Progressive Missionary Baptist Church
Ravenswood Industrial Council
Residents United to Retain Agricultural Lands
The Resurrection Project, Chicago
Rogers Park Community Action Network
Roscoe Village Neighbors
Safe Roadways
Sauk-Calumet Sierra Club
Save Open Land in DuPage
Save the Prairie Society
Senior Citizens of Resurrection
SER/Fair Housing Center of Lake County
Service Employees International Union, Local 880
Shut This Airport Nightmare Down
South Corridor Against the Tollway
Southeast Chicago Development Commission
Southeast Community Outreach Center
Southeast Environmental Task Force
Statewide Housing Action Coalition
St. Stephens Lutheran Church
Suburban Job-Link Corporation
Surface Transportation Policy Project
Sustain: The Environmental Information Group
Tarkington Park Seniors
Unitarian Universalist Social Concerns
United Transportation Union-State Council
University of Chicago Environmental Center
University of Chicago Environmental Concerns Organization
University of Chicago Green Campus Initiative
University Village Association
Uptown Multicultural Arts Center
Vietnamese Association of Illinois
Voice of the People
Wayne Community Association
Westside Health Authority
West Town Bicycle Advisory Committee
Wild Onion Alliance
Winfield Moody Health Center
The Women's Office, Chicago
Woodstock Institute
Work, Welfare and Families
WSCORP Communiversity, Inc.
Government Agencies and Municipalities
Dundee TownshipForest Preserve District of Will County
Illinois Medical District Commission
Village of Hawthorn Woods
Village of Long Grove
Village of Ringwood
Village of Peotone
Village of Wayne (partial endorsement)