The northbound section reached Division Street.
The design reveals itself hour by hour (see day one). Today I visited at 10 AM. One Twitterer had this reaction to the project: “@gabe_klein As a daily Elston bike commuter I thank you and all of @ChicagoDOT for [...]
Photo taken by Melissa.
A smattering of #bikeCHI posts from the last half of (warm) March I forgot to post earlier.
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Photo of people descending stairs at State and Lake by Ann Fisher.
Taking a cue from Twitter where #FF means “Follow Friday” and people post the @names of others they recommend you follow, I am recommending some sites from our links page that you should follow.
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The Lakefront Trail on an emptier day. Photo by Katherine of Chicago.
#bikeCHI is the hashtag to use on Twitter when you’re talking about cycling in Chicago. It’s a pretty broad topic.
I think you probably know what Zach is talking about. At the
Texting while cycling is illegal in Chicago, since November 2011. Photo by Eric Pancer.
#bikeCHI is the Twitter #hashtag to use if you’re talking about riding a bike in Chicago. Here’re two interesting tweets from tonight, both from Dan Ciskey, in order:
I sympathize with the first one: “just another day in the bike lane” is [...]
The Chicago Transit Authority tweeted for the first time yesterday morning at 10:59 AM. They said, “This is an official announcement from CTA: Hello”. They had 1 follower at the time of the tweet (it was me). 25 minutes later they had 49 new followers.
7 hours and 31 minutes later (I checked at random [...]
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