“Hey Chicago, what would encourage you to walk, bike or take CTA more often?”

That’s what the Give a Minute campaign is asking Chicagoans. Citizens are encouraged to participate by texting their ideas to 312.380.0436 or posting them on the website www.giveaminute.info.


Active Trans is honored that our leader, Ron Burke, is featured in the campaign along with CTA Chairman Terry Peterson and SRAM President and CEO, Stan Day.


Look for the ads on CTA buses and trains and send in your ideas and thoughts about what would get you to walk, bike or jump on the CTA.


Here's a great video about the campaign:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEWlsiEyuZ4


Thanks,

Ethan Spotts, Marketing & Communications Director, Active Trans

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on November 18, 2010 at 12:15pm
Awesome. I do use public transit (and in a rush take a cab or car which I prefer not to ).... so I will def share with them my thoughts.

Bus stop and entrance to all CTA stations in front of my house :))
Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on November 18, 2010 at 2:42pm
less snow?
Permalink Reply by Jared on November 18, 2010 at 2:54pm
I'm guessing those venues that weren't convenient by means other than car were considerably cheaper than the downtown locations. Not sure of a solution to your problem, seems to largely be market forces at work.



H3N3 said:
OK, I had to mull over it.
Thinking back to my last time in a car, which was in Springfield last week, what would have encouraged me to not be in that car would have been if the organizers had made an effort to choose event locations that were accessible from the main site on foot. The majority of my car trips over the past few years have been for similar reasons. I managed to get my registration refunded on a 2-day workshop a few months ago (one that I very badly wanted to attend) because they changed the location from one accessible by Metra to one that was a giant PITA to get to about two weeks before the date.
So how does one encourage the greater public, who has its collective heiny semi-permanently velcroed to a car seat, to consider accessiblity by 'clean' travel when choosing locations?
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on November 18, 2010 at 3:02pm
Chixie,

I wish you the best of luck with that here in Chicago. :)
chixieonfixie said:
less snow?
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on November 18, 2010 at 3:03pm
Not necessarily downtown, but accessible by Metra.
Jared said:
I'm guessing those venues that weren't convenient by means other than car were considerably cheaper than the downtown locations. Not sure of a solution to your problem, seems to largely be market forces at work.



H3N3 said:
OK, I had to mull over it.
Thinking back to my last time in a car, which was in Springfield last week, what would have encouraged me to not be in that car would have been if the organizers had made an effort to choose event locations that were accessible from the main site on foot. The majority of my car trips over the past few years have been for similar reasons. I managed to get my registration refunded on a 2-day workshop a few months ago (one that I very badly wanted to attend) because they changed the location from one accessible by Metra to one that was a giant PITA to get to about two weeks before the date.
So how does one encourage the greater public, who has its collective heiny semi-permanently velcroed to a car seat, to consider accessiblity by 'clean' travel when choosing locations?
Permalink Reply by Tank-Ridin' Ryan on November 18, 2010 at 3:08pm
Let's see...

Walking - if I could walk faster than I can ride by bike, I'd walk even more.
Biking - need even less encouragement
Taking the CTA - it would be nice if could get me to work faster than I can get there on my bike, or at least ON TIME. Hold the Purple Line for 30 seconds! Do you not see that Red Line coming into the station?
Permalink Reply by jennifer james on November 18, 2010 at 5:38pm
I'm glad to share my thoughts. Uh. Not to be a downer but it this the best that the major transit advocacy organization in the city can do? Can we cut to the chase and get some education out there about how to do the work it will take to get the 2015 bike plan in action and how to get tough with getting the work done together. How much does this campaign cost? New ideas are great and I hope that there are plenty coming in. I think that the improvements to public transit and cycling that are horribly needed here that have been painfully organized already are the only way to convince people that the investment is worth it. Make transit and cycling possible for everyone and they will show up just like they do where it is in place.
Permalink Reply by Joe Willis on November 19, 2010 at 2:52am
1. If I could put my bile on the L during my A.M. commute! (I work 3rd shift in the burbs and this SUCKS on rainy/snowy days!)

2. If the main buses ran within the hours of bars. ex. the last Irving Park bus only runs until a little after midnight. In the summer I just ride my bike home but it would be nice to go out with the woman (or to drunk to ride my bike) until one or two A.M. and not be forced to take a cab home.

3. Night buses run the FULL rout beginning to end. Another Irving Park example, the last few buses only run to the Blue line or to Central instead of out to Cumberland. In the summer we walk but if she is in heels, cab it is!

4. Clean the damn bus/train!
Permalink Reply by Shawn C. on November 19, 2010 at 3:19am
I already walk a lot and I use the CTA frequently. My biking is mostly social, but if there were a safe biking corridor from Chicago to Des Plaines, I would definitely bike more.
Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on November 19, 2010 at 3:29am
I live 100 yard from the Logan Square Blue/Bus station...

Still the bike is my main form of transportation in the city now. We'll see how that works this winter when there is snow and ice and sub-zero temps every day. That nice warm underground station will be calling out to me from my front door as I attempt to push my bike out the front door...

What would make me want to take public transportation more?

CATTLE CARS at the back (or front depending on which way the train is going) of all L trains specifically for bikes/bikers. If I knew that I could take my bike at any time without any stupid anti-bicycle restrictions I'd be much more likely to use the L as part of my everyday commuting around town. Failing that they need to have SECURE INSIDE bike racks at every station. These piss-poor excuses they have at many train stations are nothing more than places of stolen dreams.

Ride the bus? That reminds me, it's time to clean my toilet.



Julie Hochstadter said:
Awesome. I do use public transit (and in a rush take a cab or car which I prefer not to ).... so I will def share with them my thoughts.

Bus stop and entrance to all CTA stations in front of my house :))
Permalink Reply by Joe Willis on November 19, 2010 at 4:42am
oops bike!



chrisc927 said:
I suspect that all bodily fluids, not just bile, are prohibitted on all forms of public transportation.


Joe Willis said:
1. If I could put my bile on the L during my A.M. commute! (I work 3rd shift in the burbs and this SUCKS on rainy/snowy days!)

2. If the main buses ran within the hours of bars. ex. the last Irving Park bus only runs until a little after midnight. In the summer I just ride my bike home but it would be nice to go out with the woman (or to drunk to ride my bike) until one or two A.M. and not be forced to take a cab home.

3. Night buses run the FULL rout beginning to end. Another Irving Park example, the last few buses only run to the Blue line or to Central instead of out to Cumberland. In the summer we walk but if she is in heels, cab it is!

4. Clean the damn bus/train!
Permalink Reply by Davo on November 19, 2010 at 5:01am
....if we got tax credits for biking or using transit for 75% of their commuting needs.

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