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CDOT responds to open letter about police enforcement; still waiting for replies from mayor, police

By On May 31, 2012 · 10 Comments

Citations issued for blocking the bike lane vary from year to year. This FedEx truck blocks the Kinzie Street protected bike lane, the city’s first. 

In the open letter that Anne Alt and I wrote and mailed in early April to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, transportation commissioner Gabe Klein (CDOT), and police superintendent Garry [...]

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Postal service making a mockery of Kinzie protected bike lane

By On July 18, 2011 · 59 Comments

Photo by Seth Anderson.

This is an embarrassment. This protected bike lane was developed to provide people bicycling to and from downtown a safe passage, in which no vehicle should ever enter. The physical separation is apparently of no concern to postal workers, who don’t believe that the public will mind them putting cyclists in danger [...]

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