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Steven Lucy

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The Clark & Randolph Divvy station. Image: Google Maps

What’s going on with Divvy availability? Let’s look at the data.

By Steven Lucy | Sep 30, 2022 | No Comments
Over a roughly six-week period, at any given point about one in five stations has no "classic" bikes (the original blue non-electric cycles) for rent and one fifth of docked bikes were flagged as broken.
Apple Maps street view of one side of the Kedzie-Belmont intersection showing the lack of room for cycling and deplorable sidewalk conditions.

New bike lane plan for Belmont and Kedzie still falls short

By Steven Lucy | Jul 19, 2022 | No Comments
At the first meeting of the new Chicago Mobility Collaborative on June 30, the Chicago Department of Transportation briefly presented a new plan for the Belmont and Kedzie intersection.  This is a complicated intersection, involving both grid and diagonal streets, an expressway exit and support columns, plus existing and new bike lanes. Just a few […]
Looking southeast at Leland and Western around the time of the crash in 2019. The pothole is in the center of the image, and the Divvy station is visible at the top of the image. Image provided by Erron Fisher.

Illinois court expands a city’s liability to injured bicyclists

By Steven Lucy | May 27, 2022 | No Comments
While cyclists in Chicago facing blocked bike lanes and dangerous drivers may feel like second-class citizens every day, it is perhaps surprising that, under current Illinois law, they actually are.  Local governments  – municipalities, townships, and counties –  have an obligation to maintain roads in a condition that is safe to drive on, but have […]
Photo of a bus stop boarding island on Milwaukee Avenue at Carpenter Street.

Chicago needs to ramp up the number of bus stop boarding islands

By Steven Lucy | Apr 15, 2022 | No Comments
Chicago has a problem when it comes to bus stops and bike lanes. Too often when a bus needs to access the curb, it enters the bike lane, cutting off cyclists and also providing a gap in physical bike lane protection that is then abused by drivers who block the bike lane with their cars […]
A protected intersection in Rotterdam. Photo: Ralf Roletschek via Wikipedia

Here’s where CDOT could pilot real protected intersections to keep cyclists safe

By Steven Lucy | Mar 19, 2022 | No Comments
Local transportation engineers need to stop reinventing the wheel and just copy protected bikeway designs that work well elsewhere.
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