The Chicago Department of Transportation keeps the city’s public way safe, sustainable and in good repair to provide quality transportation options for everyone
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ALT the old west leaf old the Lake Street Bridge is floated down the Chicago River. Other Bridges are in the lifted position to let the span pass.
ALT 1. Text: Mayor Johnson & CDOT Improve Traffic Safety for Students and Families at Schools Across Chicago. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson, in a bike helmet on a Chicago Cubs Divvy bike, waves at the camera while riding a bike surrounded by children and parents riding bikes on the way to school in North Center.
ALT 2. Text: Mayor Johnson’s School Zone Program makes streets around schools safer with infrastructure designed to protect students and families on their way to class, with improvements like curb extensions, pedestrian refuge islands, and raised crosswalks. Image: A Safe Passage worker, in a yellow vest, helps a Black elementary school student cross the street to school in Englewood, with cars in the background.
ALT 3. Text: These investments build on citywide progress in traffic safety under Mayor Johnson, with traffic fatalities in Chicago declining 35% from their 2021 peak, beating national trends. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson high fives a young elementary school student outside Hamilton in North Center, surrounded by other excited elementary school students.
ALT 4. Text: The School Zone Program is one part of the Mayor Johnson’s broader investment in safer streets around schools, parks, transit, commercial corridors and other neighborhood destinations. In 2026 alone, the Program has improved streets around: Edison Regional Gifted Academy, Englewood STEM High School, Hefferan Elementary, Hibbard Elementary, Hubbard High School, Johnson College Prep, Mays Elementary, Parker Community Academy, Senn High School, Sizemore Academy, St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Urban Prep Academy. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson delivers remarks outside Mays Academy in Englewood, whose sign says 'Welcome Mayor Brandon Johnson"
ALT Students and families ride their bikes in a large group down a neighborhood street
ALT Students cross the street in front a school crossing guard
ALT City and school leaders pose for a photo in front of Mays Elementary School where pedestrian safety improvements were recently completed
ALT Mayor Johnson, students, and families bike down a neighborhood street
ALT 1. Text: Mayor Johnson & CTA to Install Dedicated Bus Lane on Michigan Avenue to Reduce Delays in the Loop. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson laughs while riding a CTA bus alongside (not pictured) CTA Acting President Nora Leerhsen and CTA Bus Driver Rance Austin on the South Side.
ALT 2. Text: The new, nearly 1.5-mile northbound bus lane between Roosevelt Road and Wacker Drive will help reduce delays for 22,000 daily CTA riders and keep buses moving along this key downtown route. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson shakes hands with a Black woman and other CTA bus riders while exiting a CTA bus in Bronzeville.
ALT photo of crew patching a pothole with graphic overlay that say: 315,000+ potholes patched this year
ALT Crews filling potholes with graphic overlay that says: 5,590+ potholes filled in Saturday's repair blitz
ALT Photo of paving roller with graphic that says 100+ miles of streets resurfaced this year, and counting