Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about bike lanes

There are lots of lots, like this one at the Frosty Penguin, along Busse Highway on the stretch where IDOT wants to strip parking. Image: Google Maps

IDOT wants to strip parking for bike lanes. Merchants push back. Both sides are wrong.

By John Greenfield | Oct 19, 2021 | No Comments

IDOT wants to strip parking on a short stretch of Busse Highway in Park Ridge to make way for bike lanes. Residents are pushing back. But a 4-to-3 conversion would be a better strategy.

Sharrows were installed on the bridge late Wednesday afternoon. Photo: Josh Koonce

No, the new Montrose bridge over Kennedy doesn’t have bike lanes, isn’t getting them

By John Greenfield | Aug 25, 2021 | No Comments

In reality, people riding bikes on the new Montrose bridge aren't getting their own dedicated lane at all, let alone a protected one.

The 5900 block of Sheridan Road in Edgewater. North of Lake Shore Drive, Sheridan is a four-lane traffic sewer. Image: Google Maps

How do you solve a problem like Sheridan Road?

By Courtney Cobbs | Jun 17, 2021 | No Comments

If we're going to convert lanes on Sheridan to make room for sustainable transportation, bus lanes are the most pressing need.

The new Bike Lane Uprising app makes it easier than ever to report bikeway obstructions

By John Greenfield | Oct 29, 2020 | No Comments

This week Bike Lane Uprising released a smartphone app, available for Android and iOS devices, for filing bikeway blockage reports.

Announced 2020 planned new Chicago bikeway, including non-protected bike lanes (orange), protected lanes (green), and Slow Streets (purple). Map: John Greenfield via Google Maps

Map: Here are some of the 25-30 miles of new bikeways slated for 2020 installation

By John Greenfield | Jun 19, 2020 | No Comments

What's more, about 15 miles are slated for the South Side, which has a much lower density of bike lanes than the North Side.

An Open Streets car-free event on Milwaukee Avenue in Wicker Park in 2013. Photo: John Greenfield

Let’s respond to coronavirus and climate change with car-free streets, bus and bike lanes

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 25, 2020 | No Comments

Creating more car-free streets for safe transportation and recreation during the current pandemic crisis would also address the longterm challenge of climate change.

Motorists illegally drive in downtown Loop Link bus lanes. Photo: Kevin Zolkiewicz

Lightfoot’s crackdown on bus and bike lane violations is a step in the right direction

By John Greenfield | Feb 19, 2020 | No Comments

A new ordinance would allow parking aides to photo violations of bus and bike lanes and mail the tickets, even scofflaws try to escape the fine by driving away.

Cyclists detour around a construction site in Wicker Park. Photo: John Greenfield

311 is a joke? No, but some bike lane blockage reports are going unaddressed

By Courtney Cobbs | Dec 18, 2019 | No Comments

According to Bike Lane Uprising, a site that documents bikeway obstructions, 311 requests about bike lanes are getting closed before they actually get resolved.

Bike lanes have been restriped on Drexel in the previous, bike-friendly configuration. Photo: Steve Quispe

After backlash from cyclists, Ald. King dropped plan to downgrade the Drexel bike lanes

By John Greenfield | Dec 6, 2019 | No Comments

King proposed allowing car parking along the boulevard's median, with would have relocated the bike lane back into the door zone.

Attendees at the Drexel meeting. Photo: Lynda Lopez

Most meeting attendees opposed King’s plan to turn Drexel bikeways into car parking

By Lynda Lopez | Oct 17, 2019 | No Comments

Less than a year ago CDOT moved the Drexel bike lanes next to the grassy median to make them safer. Now Alderman Sophia King is proposing to move them back and create new parking lanes by the median.

A We Keep You Rollin' event in Beaubien Forest Preserve. Photo: Deloris Lucas

CDOT plans new bikeways on Far South Side, provides update on recent bike projects

By John Greenfield | Sep 5, 2019 | 6 Comments

Other new bike lanes and upgrades were recently completed or are planned on the Southeast Side, in the Illinois Medical District, in East Garfield Park, and in Andersonville.

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