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Girls Bike Club Gets Ready For the Spotlight at Youth Bike Summit

By Steven Vance | Feb 3, 2014 | 6 Comments

Girls Bike Club, a youth group and after school program at West Town Bikes in Humboldt Park, is gearing up for an expanded role at the Youth Bike Summit in New York City on February 14. Girls Bike Club has about six core members and meets every Wednesday to organize upcoming bike rides or garden […]

Mapped: Where Most Chicagoans Don’t Own Cars

By Steven Vance | Jan 29, 2014 | 46 Comments

A new interactive map shows what transportation mode people use to get to work in each neighborhood in Chicago, while also identifying the share of Chicagoans who don’t own cars. Shaun Jacobsen — who writes the Transitized blog and occasionally freelances for Streetsblog — created “How Chicago Commutes” to show that many residents will benefit more from […]

Walking and Talking About BRT With Ashland Bus Riders

By John Greenfield | Jan 17, 2014 | 17 Comments

[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John Greenfield’s transportation column in Newcity magazine, which hits the street in print on Wednesday evenings.] As I type this, it’s fourteen degrees in Chicago and snow is falling fast, but the battle over the future of Ashland Avenue is heating up. The city has put forth a […]

City’s First Female-Focused Cycle Shop Will Encourage More Women to Bike

By John Greenfield | Jan 6, 2014 | 4 Comments

Veteran cyclists Vanessa Buccella and Annie Byrne hope to narrow Chicago’s bicycle commuting gender gap with their new shop BFF Bikes, opening this March at 2113 West Armitage in Bucktown. The city’s first truly woman-centric bike store will feature a largely female staff, a wide selection of women’s apparel, dressing rooms, and other amenities to […]

Eyes on the Street: What Kind of Person Rides Divvy in the Winter?

By John Greenfield | Dec 13, 2013 | 5 Comments

Prior to the Divvy bike-share launch, some folks argued that the program would be a waste of money because no one would use it during Chicago’s long winter. However, even during this week’s cold, snowy weather, the fairly common sight of bundled-up riders on the baby-blue bikes proved the system is still getting plenty of […]

Bike Writer Elly Blue Discusses the Economics of Cycling

By John Greenfield | Nov 26, 2013 | 18 Comments

On Friday I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion of cycling and economics with bike writer Elly Blue, author of the new book “Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy,” at City Lit bookstore in Logan Square. Blue’s work has appeared in various biking, sustainability, and feminist publications, and she’s also the author of […]

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