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Eyes on the Street: New Bikeways on Central Park Avenue and Lake Street
As part of the Mayor Emanuel’s goal of building 100 miles of buffered and protected lanes in his first term, the Chicago Department of Transportation is chugging along building new bikeways. Last week, I checked out buffered lanes on Central Park Avenue, between Jackson and Franklin boulevards, and protected lanes on Lake Street, from Central Park to Laramie Avenue.
September 15, 2014
Eyes on the Street: CDOT Will Fix Milwaukee/Division Sidewalk, Crosswalks
The Chicago Department of Transportation's Walk To Transit project will bring "quick fixes" to ten Chicago Transit Authority rail stations next year, including several long-needed improvements to the sidewalks and crosswalks around the Division Blue Line station. Currently, people walking to and from the transit line, or to the numerous shops and residences around the Polish Triangle, face some dismal walking conditions. CDOT will make these improvements as part of Walk To Transit's first phase:
September 4, 2014
No Longer Marooned: U. of C. Unifies Campus With New Pedestrian Spaces
[This piece also ran in Checkerboard City, John's column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings]
August 20, 2014
Illegal Stickers and Signs at U. of C. Hospitals Discourage Biking
Last week, I reported how the AMA building unlawfully installed a “No Bike Parking” sign on a city sign pole, then removed a bike that was legally locked to it. In response, Streetsblog reader and University of Chicago employee Elizabeth Edwards alerted me to a similar situation at the U. of C. Hospitals.
August 19, 2014
Eyes on the Street: More New Buffered Lanes on the South Side
The Chicago Department of Transportation continues to pump out more bikeways, as part of its effort to build 100 miles of protected and buffered lanes by 2015. Today I took a spin around the South Side to check out new buffered lanes on 75th Street and on Oakwood Boulevard.
August 6, 2014
Eyes on the Street: Twitter User Calls Attention to Drivers Blocking Bike Lane
Twitter user @CJettR has started a campaign to focus the attention of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department on clearing illegally parked and standing vehicles from bike lanes. Using the hashtag #enforce940060, Clement Robinson is calling attention to ordinance 9-40-060, which bans motorists from parking or standing in bike lanes.
August 5, 2014
Eyes on the Street: Recent Bike Upgrades in the Loop and on the South Side
Chicago Department of Transportation crews are continuing their work this summer, building new bikeways and upgrading existing ones. Yesterday, I took a spin around the Loop and the South Side to check out the latest improvements on Randolph, Harrison, California, 33rd, and King.
July 31, 2014
Eyes on the Street: Parked Bikes, Meet Stationary Bikes
If you're looking for bike parking along trendy commercial streets in Chicago, it seems to be a lot easier to find around fitness centers than almost anywhere else. Surely this is no mistake: Either the gyms, or their neighbors, must be requesting many bike racks, and their patrons might be taking an active way to get to their indoor physical activities.
July 23, 2014
Eyes on the Street: Milwaukee Bottleneck Update and New Bikeways
The Chicago Department of Transportation is chugging along, creating new buffered and protected bike lanes this summer. Recently, new stretches of buffered lanes were striped striped in Noble Square, on Noble between Erie and Augusta, and downtown, on Upper Randolph between Michigan and the bike station.
July 18, 2014
Eyes on the Street: It’s On For Once-Missing Washington/Michigan Crosswalk
To help make it easier to walk to the second busiest tourist attraction in Chicago, the Department of Transportation recently reopened a crosswalk across the north leg of the intersection of Michigan and Washington. The crosswalk provides an essential, direct link between the Cultural Center and Millennium Park's many attractions, like next week's Milton Suggs Big Band concert.
July 17, 2014