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The city has placed barricades in the protected bike lanes on Independence Boulevard to discourage cycling in them until they are converted to buffered lanes.
View more photos of the Independence Boulevard bike lanes here.
In December Red Bike and Green’s Eboni Senai Hawkins notified me that residents of Lawndale, an underserved community [...]
Cyclist on Douglas Boulevard in the 24th Ward before protected lanes were installed.
Eboni Senai Hawkins, founder of the local chapter of the African-American cycling group Red Bike and Green, recently emailed me that some local residents are “up in arms” about the protected bike lanes being built along the West Side boulevards. [...]
A Marking Specialists work truck in the Marshall Boulevard bike lane it just helped create (they work on weekends, too!).
Chicago Department of Transportation staff and its contractor Marking Specialists have been busy this summer and fall, striping miles of conventional, buffered, and separated bike lanes in Chicago. This post documents all of the new [...]
The Garfield Park fieldhouse, along the upcoming West Side Boulevards bike route
After attending the West Side and South Side meetings for the Streets for Cycling plan to install hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes and other innovative bikeways, I confess I was a little concerned about the city’s initial plans.
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