Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council

66 traditional stations and 12 bike rack "hubs" for parking e-bikes will be installed south of 77th Street.

According to Bike Lane Uprising, a site that documents bikeway obstructions, 311 requests about bike lanes are getting closed before they actually get resolved.

Highlights included concrete upgrades, new bike bridges, and ten miles of upcoming South Side bike lanes to compliment the Divvy expansion.

Lucas says it's somewhat understandable that CDOT is not immediately bringing Divvy to the area, since it currently lacks safe places to ride, but that could improve soon.

Other new bike lanes and upgrades were recently completed or are planned on the Southeast Side, in the Illinois Medical District, in East Garfield Park, and in Andersonville.

The quarterly Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council meeting is usually a tightly scheduled show-and-tell, with staff from the Chicago Department of Transportation and other city agencies giving presentations on what they’re doing to improve cycling. But after a particularly bad week for biking in the Chicago area, last Wednesday CDOT threw out the script and opened the floor for cyclists to voice their anxieties and anger over recent traffic violence, and brainstorm ways to prevent more tragedies.

CEO Oboi Reed says the city officials promised to solve the problem but failed to do so.

CDOT held an online survey in January to try to determine whether residents would prefer a different format for the meetings.