Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about protected bike lanes

A raised bike lane on Commonwealth Avenue near Boston College. A facility like this can encourage "normal" people to bike. Photo: John Greenfield

Who should we really be building bikeways for?

By John Greenfield | Jan 10, 2022 | No Comments

A discussion of whether or not "door zone" lanes lanes are terrible yielded an essential truth: To dramatically build bike mode-share, what we need a network of 8-to-80 facilities.

Better Streets Chicago launches email campaign asking officials to fix the Clark Street bike lanes

By Courtney Cobbs | Dec 10, 2021 | No Comments

Better Streets Chicago launched an email campaign advocating for increased enforcement and design changes for the Edgewater Clark St. bike lane.

The two-way protected bike lane on Sheridan Road in Evanston. Photo: City of Evanston

Here are the proposed walk/bike upgrades to Chicago Avenue in Evanston

By Courtney Cobbs | Nov 12, 2021 | No Comments

The second public meeting for potential multi-modal changes on Chicago Avenue in Evanston included renderings of proposed changes.

A worker bolts down a bollard on Clark Street. Photo: John Greenfield

Long-awaited post installation will hopefully bring order to the chaos on Clark Street

By John Greenfield | Oct 26, 2021 | No Comments

Assuming the bike lanes start functioning as intended, and more people start cycling in them, bringing additional potential customers to the corridor, that should help reassure some of the merchants.

It's getting a little safer to bike to the Diversey Rock and Bowl. Logan boulevard, looking northeast towards Diversey.

Eyes on the street: New paint-and-post bike lanes on Logan east of Western

By John Greenfield | Oct 6, 2021 | No Comments

As is often the case when new parking-protected lanes are installed, things are kind of a mess right now, with lots of cars parked in the bike lane.

View from the new westbound bike lane. Photo: John Greenfield

Take a virtual bike ride on the new Logan Boulevard bike lanes near Western Avenue

By John Greenfield | Oct 4, 2021 | No Comments

Adding painted Jersey walls to the new Logan lanes would offer real, physical protection for cyclists. That would be an even better tribute to the people who died while biking there.

One of the new bike lanes next to the ghost bike memorial for Kevin Clark. Photo: Sharon Hoyer

Road diet, bike lanes finally implemented near deadly Logan/Western intersection

By Sharon Hoyer | Oct 3, 2021 | No Comments

Riding on Logan all the way from the east side of Milwaukee Avenue to Western Avenue in relative safety is "a truly liberating experience."

The new protected bike lane on Damen between Fullerton and Diversey. Photo: CDOT

Map: Here’s where CDOT has installed, or is currently building, bikeways this year.

By John Greenfield | Sep 23, 2021 | No Comments

The Active Transportation Alliance has called out the lack of connectivity and the dearth of protected bike lanes in the city's plan.

Concrete curb-protected bike lane on Elston between Damen and Fullerton. Image: Google Maps

Who’s protecting and maintaining Chicago’s protected bike lanes?

By Courtney Cobbs | Sep 22, 2021 | No Comments

Sadly, it seems that many bike lane obstructions are still going unaddressed, which can put people on bikes in danger.

Cutting the ribbon on the new 119th Street protected bike lanes. Left to right: Randy Newfeld and Brandon Goodall from SRAM; Bobby Berry from Friends of the Major Taylor Trail; Biagi, Austen, Taylor; Paul Fitzgerald from Friends of Big Marsh; Rynell. Photo: John Greenfield

CDOT announces major bikeway push, still no plans for a cohesive protected network

By John Greenfield | Sep 22, 2021 | No Comments

Obstruction from aldermen, plus an emphasis on quantity over quality, means this plan isn't going to result in the cohesive, citywide protected bikeway network we need.

Some people biking on Clark are using the sidewalk rather than take their chances in the half-finished, car-clogged bike lanes. Photo: John Greenfield

Clark bike lanes in Edgewater are coming along, but not without their issues

By Courtney Cobbs | Sep 10, 2021 | No Comments

The half-finished, inconsistent design, which slaloms between three different layout, is creating lots of confusion.

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