Go Hub Bronzeville

Vision and Implementation Plan

Equiticity and the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) are partnering on a planning, visioning, and site selection effort for a planned mobility hub that will be located in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. This webpage will host details about the project including timeline, Community Advisory Council members, public events, and important documents.

About this project

Mobility Hubs are public areas located near transit stations that provide transit riders with bike sharing, car sharing, public programming, and other transportation services that make it easier for residents and visitors to ride public transit. Mobility hubs might have bike sharing docks, scooters or other personal mobility devices, and bus stops to help facilitate connections between the transit station and riders’ origins and destinations. Equiticity’s model for a community-focused mobility hub is called the “Go Hub,” offering a co-located suite of transportation services and devices comprised of three primary groups: Hardware (transportation vehicles, devices, and charging stations), Software (programming, education, community mobility rituals), and a physical space (indoor and outdoor storage/staging of vehicles and devices, gathering/programming areas, and offices). 

This project seeks to identify a suitable site for a Go Hub location near the 51st Street CTA Green Line station in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The project’s study area is a ½ mile area surrounding the 51st Street station. The map below shows the study area and its location in Chicago.

The planning process will ensure that the facility and its programs are specifically and intentionally designed to connect Black and Brown people living in Bronzeville with multiple modes of transportation that are safe, sustainable, and active. In addition, Equiticity would like to achieve the following goals for the project:

  • Develop a deep understanding of community preferences, concerns, recommendations, and constraints related to mobility hubs, transit, bicycling, and walking in the Bronzeville area;

  • Translate feedback received from the community into a unified vision for the Go Hub that will be constructed in Bronzeville;

  • Create metrics to measure community mobility and assess the Go Hub’s capacity to improve mobility and access to opportunity among residents;

  • Identify potential sites and develop a financial plan for a Go Hub location in Bronzeville; and

  • Develop an implementation strategy for Go Hub construction that includes capital and operations/maintenance costs, as well as funding opportunities.

The Equiticity Bronzeville Go Hub Vision and Implementation Plan is supported by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA)’s Community Planning Program. For more information about the project, email: alex.waltz@rtachicago.org or nayla@equiticity.org

Timeline

Date

  1. November 2024

  2. March 2025

  3. May 2025

  4. July 2025

  5. September 2025

Project Milestone

  1. Community Advisory Council Meeting 1: Existing Conditions Report complete.

  2. Community Advisory Council Meeting 2: Site selection and financial analysis complete.

  3. Conceptual site design complete.

  4. Community Advisory Council Meeting 3: Draft Plan Complete.

  5. Final Plan Complete.

Upcoming events

TBD

Community Advisory Council

To ensure stakeholder involvement in the development of the plan, the project team has established a project Community Advisory Council, whose members are listed below:

Bernard Turner - Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area

Zakeya Cartman - Little Black Pearl

Chris Willard - Small Shop Cycle and Service

Rhonda McFarland - Quad Communities Development Corporation, NFP

John Adams - Bronzeville Trail Task Force, Inc. 

Betty Akins - South Shore Bicycle Works LWCA/Urban Juncture/Boxville

Nicole Humphrey - South Side Sanctuary

Sherelle Withers - Innovation Metropolis and Bronzeville Smart Mart