Recent Streetsblog CHICAGO posts about protected bike lanes

The concrete curb-protected bike lanes on Campbell Avenue in North Center are a relatively rare example of a Chicago bike route with sturdy protection from drivers. Photo: Rebecca Resman

New York City’s plan to bolster bike lanes with concrete could leave Chicago in the dust

By Courtney Cobbs | Mar 16, 2022 | No Comments

New York City has promised to add concrete barriers to their bike lanes that are currently delineated with paint and plastic posts. Chicago should follow.

Cycling in the dashed bike lanes on the 1500 block of North Milwaukee Avenue. Photo: John Greenfield

Banning parking as a public safety strategy? Use the space for walking, biking, or dining

By John Greenfield | Jan 31, 2022 | No Comments

Rather than asking, "How will our customers be able to drive here?" merchants should ask, "How can we make it easier for customers to get here?"

A protected bike lane on California Boulevard near Douglass Park. Photo: Ruth Rosas

How have biking conditions been in Latine communities this winter?

By Ruth Rosas | Jan 24, 2022 | No Comments

If they are not cleared, these bikeways that are supposed to help us ride safely instead wind up constraining our mobility.

Una ciclovía protegido en California Boulevard cerca de Douglass Park. Foto: Ruth Rosas

¿Cómo están las condiciones de las ciclovías en las comunidades latinas?

By Ruth Rosas | Jan 24, 2022 | No Comments

Si no limpian, estas ciclovías que nos deben ayudar a andar con seguridad terminan con restringiendo nuestra movilidad.

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."

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