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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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, 44, in River West. To highlight Chicago's traffic violence epidemic, some people Zoomed in to the meeting from the memorial using a background with a white bicycle and the words "I'm currently at the ghost bike vigil for another cyclist killed on Chicago streets." Others posted a "Vision Zero Chicago 2022 Report Card" with crash fatality stats. About 140 people attended the meeting altogether. - Ed.