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Last week, the Active Transportation Alliance launched the 2025 Bike Commuter Challenge
Last week, the Active Transportation Alliance started its 2025 Bike Commuter Challenge, presented by Keating Law Offices. (The firm is also a Streetsblog Chicago sponsor.) The first celebration station was put up on Wednesday, May 28, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the entrance to the Bloomingdale Trail, aka The 606, at Churchill Park, 1825 N. Damen Ave. in Bucktown.
June 2, 2025
Raised expectations: Some curb-protected bike lanes often flood. Could switching to raised lanes solve the problem?
CDOT says building raised bike lanes is more time-consuming and complex that installing on-street bikeways, but raised lanes are becoming more common.
June 6, 2024
Earth Rider Cycling closing in October after five years on Milwaukee Avenue
The closure of yet another local Chicago bike shop reflects a shifting and challenging market for small business owners.
September 27, 2023
What’s going on with the Bucktown stretch of the Leavitt Neighborhood Greenway?
Unfortunately the contraflow lanes and shared-lane markings got prematurely sketched, but the real thing is on the way.
August 28, 2023
Residents turn out in force to support upcoming protected bike lanes on Milwaukee Ave. in West Town/Logan
A huge crowd turned out at the Bucktown-Wicker Park library on Monday for the Chicago Department of Transportation’s public meeting about new protected bike lanes planned for Milwaukee Avenue.
June 29, 2023
Open house on proposed new Milwaukee PBLs on 6/26, “Small but loud anti-bike crowd have been raising hell”
There's no excuse for not building protected more bike lanes on Milwaukee Avenue in order to prevent future fatalities.
June 21, 2023
Newly reopened Webster bridge has a more bikable solid deck, but no bike lanes
Ideally, any time a bridge is renovated it should get protected bike lanes, but unfortunately Webster only got "sharrow" shared-lane markings.
December 23, 2022
The western third of the Cortland/Wabansia Slow Street has been dismantled
Over the weekend CDOT dismantled part of another popular Slow Street in response to feedback from residents and use data the department collected.
August 24, 2020
Longtime Bucktown Eatery Club Lucky Promises to Improve Their Bike Parking Situation
The eatery pledged to find a more convenient bike parking solution after we pointed out that their "No Bicycle Lock-up" stickers on poles in front of the restaurant are invalid.
August 9, 2019
Closing Trails for Fancy Events Sends the Wrong Message
If the city wants to reassure residents that trails are being built for the benefit of people who currently live in the communities they run through, the Farm2Table Dinner was a terrible way to show it.
September 25, 2017
