Events

Help show support for restriping faded bike lanes, and building new ones, in the Northwest Side community.

Chicago's South Side dockless bike-share pilot is starting to shift into high gear, with yesterday's release of 50 LimeBike electric cycles with wheel locks, and 50 non-electric Pace bikes (from Zagster) with built-in cable locks, plus today's deployment of 50 Ofo non-electric, wheel-lock bikes. And word is that Jump Mobility will soon be releasing a fleet of electric bikes with built-in U-locks.

But will the narrow parameters of the city's DoBi pilot program doom the fleets to fail?

City officials broke ground on the project today, starting with the reconstruction of a half-mile of Lake Street near the station site.

The facility is open to rail and bus riders, while the old station is now closed for construction of a new north terminal.

A photo installation by Chicago Critical Mass cofounder Michael Burton shows that, ironically, drivers regularly destroy the placards that remind them to be more careful.

The Peruvian capital is far from a transportation paradise, but it still has a few good biking and transit features that Chicago should emulate.

There are myriad reasons why 36 car parking spaces in a building with 124 households is a good number to shelter in Logan Square near the Blue Line.

"Out of all the big ideas," said Cole, "I think it should be free, and it should be extended.