Steven Lucy
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New bike lane plan for Belmont and Kedzie still falls short
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At the first meeting of the new Chicago Mobility Collaborative on June 30, the Chicago Department of Transportation briefly presented a new plan for the Belmont and Kedzie intersection. This is a complicated intersection, involving both grid and diagonal streets, an expressway exit and support columns, plus existing and new bike lanes. Just a few […]
Illinois court expands a city’s liability to injured bicyclists
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While cyclists in Chicago facing blocked bike lanes and dangerous drivers may feel like second-class citizens every day, it is perhaps surprising that, under current Illinois law, they actually are. Local governments – municipalities, townships, and counties – have an obligation to maintain roads in a condition that is safe to drive on, but have […]
Chicago needs to ramp up the number of bus stop boarding islands
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Chicago has a problem when it comes to bus stops and bike lanes. Too often when a bus needs to access the curb, it enters the bike lane, cutting off cyclists and also providing a gap in physical bike lane protection that is then abused by drivers who block the bike lane with their cars […]
Here’s where CDOT could pilot real protected intersections to keep cyclists safe
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Local transportation engineers need to stop reinventing the wheel and just copy protected bikeway designs that work well elsewhere.