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NIMBYs win: More on why, despite recent bike crashes, Lincolnwood cancelled Pratt PBLs, forfeited millions in state funding
Local sustainable transportation advocates noted that it shouldn't take serious bike crash injuries and deaths to convince communities to create safer streets.
August 8, 2024
As another person is killed while biking in the northern suburbs, Lincolnwood reneges on Pratt bikeway plan
At a time when bike crashes have been disturbingly common in the near-northern suburbs, it's troubling to hear that one of them is cancelling plans to make cycling safer.
August 7, 2024
This month drivers on north-suburban IDOT roads seriously injured or killed three different people biking
Wide, multilane streets that encourage drivers to speed, plus wide turning radii and slip lanes that enable motorists to whip around corners , may have contributed to these crashes.
July 25, 2024
Dissenting opinions: Why do some bike shop owners oppose the Pratt bike bridge?
The arguments against building the bridge don't outweigh the positives: safer, more convenient, and more pleasant east-west bike and pedestrian access.
October 15, 2021
Lincolnwood plans to build the Pratt Boulevard bike-ped bridge Streetsblog proposed
The new span will bisect the one-mile gap in bridges over the North Shore Channel by the eponymous trail.
August 17, 2021
Bike lanes are finally coming to Pratt Ave. in Lincolnwood
A two-way curb-protected bike lane was proposed, but to save money the village will instead probably two non-protected lanes.
January 8, 2020
Lincolnwood may save a bike lane plan that was almost scrapped due to parking worries
A new proposal calls for preserving one parking lane and installing a two-way protected bike lanes on the south side of the street.
December 4, 2019
Eyes on the Street: Checking Out the New Weber Spur Trail
The new multiuse path runs along the old Union Pacific Weber Spur for one mile between the city limits at Devon Avenue to Touhy Avenue by the Lincolnwood Town Center.
August 16, 2017
Lincolnwood Builds New Segments of the Valley Line Trail and the Weber Spur
The northern suburb of Lincolnwood recently filled in the final gap in the Valley Line Trail, a paved multiuse path that runs from Sauganash to Skokie. The Weber Spur trail is also in the works.
December 30, 2016
