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A properly installed sharrow, 11 feet from the curb.
An improperly installed sharrow, 9 feet from the curb, that hasn’t been rectified in over a year.
A year ago I notified the Chicago Department of Transportation about some mistakes that were made in the installation of new bikeways. They replied October 25, 2011, with [...]
Last Tuesday a friend of mine called me around 6 PM to describe that he had just witnessed a cyclist get involved in a collision with an automobile at Canal Street and Kinzie Street. From my friend’s point of view (which was a couple hundred feet west of the intersection), the cyclist was turning left [...]
Brandon Gobel sent us this video showing dozens – I count 27 – of people bicycling southeast on Milwaukee Avenue towards the five-way intersection with Kinzie Street and Desplaines Street. There were 13 motorized vehicles in the same signal cycle.
You’ll notice about half are changing lanes from the [...]
Spring 2011: original post configuration as seen from the top of “Fudge Hill” – photo by Josh Koonce.
Early May 2012: CDOT has taken out most of the bollards.
June 1, 2012: Some of the bollards have been reinstalled.
The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) recently removed more that half of the flexible posts [...]
Messenger John “Blunt” Robbins rides in a section of Kinzie without parking, where every-other post has been removed.
It was a little mysterious when the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) recently removed more than half of the flexible posts (AKA bollards) that separate the Kinzie protected bike lanes from parked cars and moving traffic. [...]
Bike counts are getting more attention this year than in previous years. Watch these two short interviews to get a little insight on how. A full story will be published later.
Alyson Fletcher is a graduate student from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; she’s also volunteered for Active Transportation Alliance. She was here [...]
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