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The group would like to see bike libraries expand citywide, and has other ideas to get more people to use active transportation more often and drive less.

By allowing people on bikes to legally ride west on the short one-way eastbound segment of Sunnyside next to the park, the lane opens up a new way to bike west from Ashland to the 312 RiverRun.

Clark Street between Montrose and Foster is being studied for future development. The Department of Planning and Development is engaging the community on what land use and streetscape changes they'd like to see in the area.

If the Leland Slow Street treatment very successful in encouraging biking this year, why did it make sense to take it down during peak cycling season?

Let's raise a toast to the Leland Slow Street, which has helped make the COVID-19 lockdown a little more bearable for local residents and families.

Hicks was the 39th pedestrian killed on Chicago streets this year.

While the traffic-calmed side-street bikeway is already underway in the 46th Ward, there are currently no plans to extend it west.

I spent about five years in the early 2000s coordinating bicycle rack installations for the Chicago Department of Transportation. One of the main takeaways from that very enjoyable job was that, when it comes to bike parking, form really does follow function. Although designers are constantly trying to reinvent the wheel by building a better bike rack, it's hard to beat the no-frills "inverted U" style CDOT has been putting in since the early Nineties.

The one mile of Lawrence Avenue between Ashland and Western avenues, through the Ravenswood neighborhood, went on a road diet this year. The diet slimmed Lawrence from four to two travel lanes, and used the extra space to create room for bike lanes, wider sidewalks, and extensive landscaping. The streetscape project right-sized this stretch of Lawrence, bringing it in line with the two-lane segments both west of Western and east of Ashland.