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The ghost bike memorial to Gerardo Marciales, before it was destroyed. Photo: John Greenfield

A reckless driver killed Divvy rider Gerardo Marciales. Another one destroyed his ghost bike.

By John Greenfield | Jan 12, 2023 | No Comments

Less than a year after his death, another reckless motorist on the drive crashed into the light pole Marciales' ghost bike memorial was chained to, demolishing the shrine.

A mix of non-electric Divvy bikes and e-cycles. Photo: John Greenfield

Good news! CDOT and Lyft indicate non-electric Divvies won’t be phased out

By John Greenfield | Jan 11, 2023 | No Comments

It looks like in the future Divvy users won't have to worry about having the no more blue bikes blues.

The new bridge features a mostly solid concrete deck, but no bike lanes, just "sharrow" markings. Photo: CDOt

Newly reopened Webster bridge has a more bikable solid deck, but no bike lanes

By John Greenfield | Dec 23, 2022 | No Comments

Ideally, any time a bridge is renovated it should get protected bike lanes, but unfortunately Webster only got "sharrow" shared-lane markings.

The new bike counter in front of AMLI 808. Photo: Jennifer Wolf

The wait is over! Chicago now now has a bike counter at Chicago/Wells in River North

By John Greenfield | Dec 16, 2022 | No Comments

Frustratingly, a similar bike counter was slated to be installed years ago on Milwaukee Avenue, the city's busiest biking street, in Wicker Park, but that plan was reportedly cancelled due to city bureaucracy.

Riding in the non-protected bike lanes on Belmont near Racine, looking east. Photo: John Greenfield

Eyes on the Street: Non-protected bike lanes on Belmont are a missed opportunity

By John Greenfield | Dec 5, 2022 | No Comments

When the city chooses to install subpar bikeways, or none at all, rather than eliminate space for storing private metal boxes on the public way, it's mostly an issue of political will.

A bus boarding island that doubles as bike lane protection under construction at Milwaukee and Haddon Avenue (1130 N.) earlier this month, looking south. Photo: Steven Vance

Eyes on the Street: New bus stop islands on Milwaukee Avenue on Near Northwest Side

By John Greenfield | Nov 20, 2022 | No Comments

CDOT has installed a number of new bus boarding islands on Milwaukee Avenue in River West and Logan Square, with the islands doubling as bikeway protection

Ald. Michael Rodriguez, one of the alders who asked for traffic safety improvements, upper right, questions CDOT chief Gia Biagi, lower-left.

Refreshing: Alders asked for lower speed limit, bike grid at today’s CDOT budget hearings

By John Greenfield | Oct 24, 2022 | No Comments

Thanks to "hyper-vocal bike advocates," alderpersons are getting the message that a citywide grid of protected, well-enforced bike lanes is needed.

Construction at Balbo/DLSD, where a red light-running driver fatally struck Gerardo Marciales on a Divvy, and his ghost bike on Tuesday morning at 8:45 a.m. Photo: Kristen Larson

Advocacy pays off as CDOT installs concrete medians at dangerous DLSD intersections

By John Greenfield | Oct 20, 2022 | No Comments

If we could only get the police department to ticket the thousands of drivers who run reds at these intersections every day, we could make even more progress on preventing drivers from endangering people on foot and bikes.

A Loop Link express bus corridor station. Due to factors like the lack of prepaid boarding and enforcement, the corridor has only resulted in modest bus speed gains. Photo: John Greenfield

At Mobility Collaborative meeting, advocates staff pushed CTA, CDOT to implement robust BRT

By Igor Studenkov | Oct 5, 2022 | No Comments

This post focuses on the Chicago Mobility Collective breakout session that focused on street design to improve bus service. Streetsblog may run coverage of other breakout sessions that focused on pedestrian and bike matters in the future. The meeting took place during the same time as the ghost bike installation for youth mentor Sam Bell, […]

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.

Biking on Lincoln Avenue at Foster Avenue. Photo: John Greenfield

Letter from advocacy groups calls for protected bike lanes on Lincoln Ave. in Lincoln Square

By John Greenfield | Sep 22, 2022 | No Comments

Multiple advocacy groups made that argument once again with an open letter to local decision-makers calling on them to include physically-protected bike lanes along as part of the upcoming Lincoln Avenue Streetscape and Plaza project

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