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SAFETY ZONE painted on California Avenue, immediately south of North Avenue.
There are four news stories in this edition of Grid Bits.
Speed cameras
The Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications announced two weeks ago that it will be testing speed cameras from Monday, December 3 (yesterday), to Thursday, January 3.
“City [...]
A South Shore train travels between northern Indiana and downtown Chicago. It’s not a member of the Regional Transportation Authority of Illinois. Photo by Seth Anderson.
The Regional Transportation Authority is a financial administrator and cooperative service planner at the top of the Chicagoland transit hierarchy. Or at least it’s supposed to be. But transit [...]
The Kinzie Street protected lanes. Photo by Josh Koonce.
[This article also appears on the Green Lane Project's website.]
Last month dozens of transportation professionals from across the Chicago area converged on the Sears Tower to learn about protected bike lanes and other new developments in bike facility design. The Chicago Metropolitan [...]
This is another data-intensive post. For the tl;dr version, read only the introduction and conclusion sections. Photo by Mike Travis.
Jeremy Gaines asked on the Chicaogist reblog of our Monday article (about Chicago cyclists crashing less often than those in the suburbs):
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This post is third in a series on crash data sponsored by Jim Freeman, a Chicago lawyer specializing in pedestrian and bicycle crashes. Read the other posts in this series.
I recently came across an undated and unattributed article on an injury lawyer’s website about bike crashes. The website is designed to [...]
CDOT staffer Mike Amsden describes the city’s commitment to bicycling in a presentation about the progress of the Streets for Cycling Plan 2020.
Yesterday’s Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council (MBAC) meeting was the first in a new format we reported on back in December.
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