Watch the video interview on Vimeo, it’s 2 minutes long.
We interviewed Terry Bloom the other day at his gym about the Bicycle Film Festival that starts tomorrow, a locally-produced event with international cachet that celebrates films about bikes but also the bicycles and the people who ride them. We wanted to [...]
The Chicago Department of Transportation has made public its bike sharing station suggestion map, where you can click on a location on the map to say “this is a good place for a bike sharing station”, up-vote others’ suggestions, and see the most popular suggested locations.
Go suggest a good location now.
As [...]
The walls of the Mess Hall community center in Rogers Park are covered in project proposals, in 2010. Photo by Samuel Barnett. See more photos from Barnett.
Major updates, 11:17 AM
We received an email Participatory Budgeting Chicago manager Thea Crum, at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) Great Cities [...]
A Rock Island Metra train heading towards Blue Island across 95th Street in Chicago. Photo by Jeff Zoline.
From a Metra news release:
Furthering its goal of soliciting input and engaging in dialogue with its major stakeholders, Metra is asking its riders, the public, elected officials and others for their help as it [...]
Once again Grid Chicago will be producing the Cargo Bike Roll Call, a social event about what’s possible with bicycling, and how people in Chicago use their bicycles to carry children, dirt for community gardens, or deliver goods.
Saturday, June 9, 2012, from 6 PM to 10 PM
West Town Bikes
2459 W [...]
Photo of Chicagoan bicycling across the Kinzie Street bridge by John Iwanski.
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May
Monday, May 28 is the extended deadline for the Bike Video PSA. The competition, sponsored by Goose Island, Bike [...]
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