Chicago is second city in Bicycling Magazine’s rankings

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Permalink Reply by Christine (5.0) on September 5, 2014 at 1:53pm

The Second City is second?  Heck yes!

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Permalink Reply by OLB 0.1 on September 5, 2014 at 2:00pm

The only thing we're First at is being Second!!

Back to the topic, I doubt that our infrastructure has improved enough to move this high. Even if it did, we still have a long way to go.

Christine (5.0) said:

The Second City is second?  Heck yes!

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Permalink Reply by SixtyTwoPercent on September 6, 2014 at 11:15am

On a side note, I showed a friend part of my route to work (Damen to Elston to Milwaukee) and when we arrived at the section where the cars serve as buffer to cyclists, he commented. "I would ride my bike to work if the route was like this the whole way. This is incredible."  Unsolicited, but appreciated.

I see more and more cyclists on the routes. I also see that they too are concerned about how to cross Diversey, Fullerton, etc. with no barricades, lines. I really hope people don't hang up their helmets before we get progress on some barricades.

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on September 6, 2014 at 1:54pm

Meanwhile, on the south side, at least on Archer, we are actually losing sections of the meager bike lanes we do have. Only 5% or so of Archer has bike lanes and we are losing parts of that tiny fraction to parking for condo dwellers (at Canal) and restauranteurs who are too cheap to provide parking. (Not going to mention their name and give them any free publicity.)

It does not seem fair to spend taxpayer funds to perfect intersections and other details of existing bike infrastructure when entire swaths of the southwest side have no viable cycling  routes at all.

 
SixtyTwoPercent said:

On a side note, I showed a friend part of my route to work (Damen to Elston to Milwaukee) and when we arrived at the section where the cars serve as buffer to cyclists, he commented. "I would ride my bike to work if the route was like this the whole way. This is incredible."  Unsolicited, but appreciated.

I see more and more cyclists on the routes. I also see that they too are concerned about how to cross Diversey, Fullerton, etc. with no barricades, lines. I really hope people don't hang up their helmets before we get progress on some barricades.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on September 6, 2014 at 3:26pm

I've lost 2 that are fairly important to me--

1) Western Ave over the canal-- just faded away and never replaced

2) California between 19th and Cermak-- just faded away- barely discernable for several years now.

Tony Adams 4 mi said:

Meanwhile, on the south side, at least on Archer, we are actually losing sections of the meager bike lanes we do have. Only 5% or so of Archer has bike lanes and we are losing parts of that tiny fraction to parking for condo dwellers (at Canal) and restauranteurs who are too cheap to provide parking. (Not going to mention their name and give them any free publicity.)

It does not seem fair to spend taxpayer funds to perfect intersections and other details of existing bike infrastructure when entire swaths of the southwest side have no viable cycling  routes at all.

 
SixtyTwoPercent said:

On a side note, I showed a friend part of my route to work (Damen to Elston to Milwaukee) and when we arrived at the section where the cars serve as buffer to cyclists, he commented. "I would ride my bike to work if the route was like this the whole way. This is incredible."  Unsolicited, but appreciated.

I see more and more cyclists on the routes. I also see that they too are concerned about how to cross Diversey, Fullerton, etc. with no barricades, lines. I really hope people don't hang up their helmets before we get progress on some barricades.

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