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The Emanuel administration has been doing a terrific job of promoting biking, so it’s bizarre that the city seems to be stonewalling a bicycle-powered business that supports local retail districts and helps prevent drunk driving. Pedal Pub leads bar crawls on sixteen-person vehicles, operating legally in 27 other cities. In a few cities they [...]
Bicycle signals on Dearborn Street at Madison Street were turned on as of Wednesday. Photo by Kevin Zolkiewicz.
Meeting minutes for the September 2012 can be downloaded (.pdf); read our recap of it.
Streets for Cycling Plan 2020
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A few months late, the Streets for Cycling Plan 2020 will [...]
Andrew Bayley’s ward map jigsaw puzzle. This and most photos in this post are by Bayley.
[This piece also runs in Time Out Chicago magazine.]
It was a blast from the past when Andrew “Cooter” Bayley, an old bike messenger colleague of mine, asked me to pedal the torturous boundaries of the newly redistricted [...]
The photographer, Mike Travis, captioned this photo with “They managed to not get run over at Milwaukee & Wood”. See “Crash stats” below for details on the activity here.
Update September 7, 2012: From the Wicker Park-Bucktown SSA, we get news that this project has been pushed back to spring 2013. It seems IDOT is [...]
This article will be updated a few times after publishing while I gather all the information. All regular city council meetings are streamed live with video and transcript and that is where I am getting all of the information.
Alderman Cardenas of the 12th ward speaks in support of the speed camera ordinance.
Bike sharing
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Active Trans’ Open Streets Manager Julia Kim
Last week bike-friendly 1st Ward Alderman Proco “Joe” Moreno hosted an Active Transportation Alliance member social at the Fifty/50 bar in Ukrainian Village. In addition to presentations by other Active Trans staffers about the city’s Streets for Cycling initiative and bus rapid transit pilot, Julia Kim gave [...]
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