Milwaukee Bike Lanes Will Be Upgraded With Concrete Curbs From Ohio to Chicago
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The northbound and southbound bike lanes will each be closed for two weeks during construction.
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Evanston Aldermen Vote to Keep the Dodge Ave. Protected Lanes
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Despite crash numbers that prove that the bikeways are doing their job to reduce crashes and injuries, they may be downgraded to non-protected lanes to make car parking more convenient.
Leonard Anderson, 70, Fatally Struck on Independence Boulevard, Where Protected Lanes Were Removed
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The victim, whose name has not yet been provided, was the fifth bike fatality of 2017.
Finally! Washington Protected Lane Is Being Extended East
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No longer will cyclists be dropped off into mixed traffic east of State Street.
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.
Judge Issues Restraining Order to Keep Baltimore Mayor From Erasing Protected Bike Lane
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Pandering to NIMBYs, Catherine Pugh wants to rip out a protected bike lane that has been in the works for years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to design and build.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Caves to NIMBYs, Hacks Away at Protected Bike Lane
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Pugh altered a bikeway as it was being constructed, endangering the physical safety of people on bikes to appease parking-obsessed complainers.
After Boston’s Mayor Blames Crash Victims, Pop-Up Comics Push for Better Bike Lanes
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Boston's latest do-it-yourself bike lane intervention might seem a bit sketchy -- because it uses comics to prod City Hall for needed safety improvements.
Britain’s Forgotten Protected Bike Lane Network
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A U.K. historian is on a quest to find and reclaim hundreds of miles of protected bike lanes built across his country in the early 20th century and then abandoned.
The Backlash Against the Marshall Bike Lanes Serves as a Cautionary Tale for Planners
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As the city strives to build more protected bikeways, this unfortunate episode underscores the need for CDOT to earn community buy-ins before construction and do extensive outreach afterward.
Take a Virtual Ride on the New Randolph Protected Bike Lane
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An important new downtown bikeway recently became rideable. The Randolph protected bike lane runs from Michigan to Clinton, making an already-popular westbound route out of the Loop safer. The project involved a road diet. One one the three travel lanes on Randolph was converted to make room for the bike lane and its striped buffer. […]
Reported “Dooring” Bike Crashes Dropped Significantly from 2011 to 2014
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Four years of data on reported dooring crashes in Chicago show a decrease from 2011, when the data started being collected by the state, to 2014, the most recent year for which crash data has been released. A dooring crash occurs when someone in a car opens their door into moving traffic without looking, resulting […]