Part 1 of SBC’s Bike Lane Fest 2024: Uptown, Lincoln Square, West Ridge, Rogers Park, Edgewater
Check out Part 2: Lincoln Square, Irving Park, and Albany Park here.
Check out Part 4: West Side here
Check out Part 5: South Side here.
Hey there, Streetsblog readers. After introducing our new Map of 2024 CDOT Bikeway Installations on Monday, I put it to use Tuesday afternoon. I visited our first round of Chicago Department of Transportation projects that have been completed this year, or are currently underway, based on CDOT’s Planned Bike Projects spreadsheet.
As was the case with Bike Lane Week last year, my goal is not to pedal the entire length of every route. Instead, I’m just trying to get some idea of what each new facility is like.
I planned to attend a Tuesday evening public meeting on Evanston’s Chicago Avenue project, which calls for extending the suburb’s Chicago Avenue protected bike lane south to the city of Chicago border. The hearing took place at Robert Crown Community Center, 1801 Main St. Therefore, I planned Tuesday’s Bike Lane Fest trip to take me from Streetsblog Chicago HQ in Uptown, to the north-of-the-border hearing, and back again. I’ll post a writeup the PBL meeting in the near future.
Since I visited the northeastern-most part of Chicago today, I came up with thie following plan for this year’s project. The Windy City is sort of shaped like half a clock, with the Loop at the center, and the disc sawed in two along an imaginary line approximately between 11:00 and 5:00, i.e. the Lake Michigan shoreline. So I’ll check out the new bikeways in vaguely wedge-shaped chunks of territory, moving around our municipality in a clockwise manner, day by day.
Below is a relatively concise roundup of what I saw on Tuesday. I took all the photos and shot the video. If there’s no image but just a quick description of a new bikeway in bold that’s linked, just click on that text, and you’ll be taken to our previous article that talks about the project.
Neighborhood Greenway (NG) on Leland in Uptown and Lincoln Square, classified by CDOT as “underway“
NG Francisco in Lincoln Square
NG on Rockwell in Lincoln Square
NG on Ainslie in Lincoln Square
Protected bike lanes (PBL) and raised bike lanes on Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Square (classified by CDOT as “installed,” but they’re actually “underway”)
NG on Winnemac Avenue in Lincoln Square
Video: Riding west from Winnemac Park on the Winnemac Avenue NG to Lincoln Avenue.
No-protected bike lanes (NPBL) on California in Lincoln Square and West Ridge
NPBL on Howard in Rogers Park
NG on Berwyn from Damen to the Lakefront Trail in Lincoln Square and Edgewater (click the link to see our previous post and handlebar video)
NGs on Kenmore and Winthrop in Edgewater and Uptown
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