Eyes on the Street: New 2-Way Protected Bike Lane on Evanston’s Chicago Avenue
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The bike lane is part of a larger project to improve multi-modal usage of both Chicago Avenue and Sheridan Road.
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Northwestern Students, Chicago Cylists Honor Crash Victim Chuyuan Qiu
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The Northwestern University community, as well as Chicago-area bicyclists, are still processing the death of Chuyuan “Chu” Qiu, an 18-year-old student who was killed last month after she collided with a concrete truck while biking by the Evanston campus. A native of Nanjing, China, Qiu was a member of the Kaplan Humanities Scholars Program and […]
This Was an Awful Week for Bike Crashes in the Chicago Region
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This has been a terrible week for bike fatalities and injuries in the metropolitan area, with at least two deaths and two serious injury crashes in the city and suburbs. Here’s a look at the four cases. Wlodzimierz Woroniecki, 60, Struck and Killed While Biking in Franklin Park Just before 2 p.m. Monday, Woroniecki was […]
Evanston Protected Lanes Face Backlash While Making Dodge Ave. Safer
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Evanston installed new protected bike lanes on Dodge Avenue from Howard Street to Lake Street last month, and already some residents are complaining that the lanes have made it unsafe to park their cars. But these fears are unfounded because Chicago has had protected lanes with a nearly identical design for five years. The new Dodge protected […]
What’s Up With Evanston’s Unusual Divvy Station Location Pattern?
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As I pointed out back in early June when the new Divvy expansion map was released, which included the system’s first suburban docking stations in Evanston and Oak Park, the locations of the ten Evanston stations seemed a little odd. When Chicago originally launched the bike-share system in 2013, a high number of stations were concentrated […]
Cold Comfort: Fines for Shoveling Scofflaws Went Up, But Not Enforcement
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[The Chicago Reader recently launched a new weekly transportation column written by Streetsblog Chicago editor John Greenfield. This partnership will allow Streetsblog to extend the reach of our livable streets advocacy. We’ll be syndicating a portion of the column on the day it comes out online; you can read the remainder on the Reader’s website […]
Evanston City Council Advances Key Projects From Bike Plan
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On Monday night, Evanston’s City Council held a special meeting solely to address four bike infrastructure or policy measures, all of which will implement pieces of the city’s recently adopted Bike Plan. The council advanced new protected bike lanes along Sheridan Road and along Dodge Avenue, in spite of considerable opposition over the latter, while deferring […]
There’s Still Time for Evanston Residents to Voice Support for Safer Biking
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The Evanston City Council passed an update to the suburb’s bike plan, including plans for a network of protected lanes, on July 28. However, some of these bikeway projects have hit a roadblock, in the form of opposition from two aldermen and a handful of residents. On Tuesday, the Active Transportation Alliance launched an online […]
Requiem for a Librarian: Gigi Galich and the Church Street Protected Lanes
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[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John’s column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets in Wednesday evenings.] From what I’ve read, it sounds like Gigi Galich, a children’s librarian who died after an Evanston bike crash, was a wonderful lady. Shortly before 9am on the morning of June 30, Galich was bicycling to […]
Davis Street Disagreement Tables Evanston Bike Plan Progress
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Last year, the City of Evanston started work on a 2014 Bicycle Plan Update [PDF], envisioning further improvements in its cycling infrastructure. The previous bicycle plan, adopted in 2003, resulted in 38 miles of bicycle facilities and a marked increase in bicycle ridership. The new plan will bring a new focus on “comfortable bike corridors” along Evanston’s […]
Evanston Catches Residents Off Guard by Suggesting Bike Bans
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A survey to collect resident feedback about the draft Evanston Bike Plan launched yesterday, and some of the questions have alarmed residents and advocates. The survey has several odd questions, beginning with a requirement that respondents complete a quiz about bicycling laws. What truly alarmed respondents like Wheel & Sprocket store manager Eric Krzystofiak, though, is […]