Rahm wants to build 25 miles of bike lanes a year

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Permalink Reply by igz on February 28, 2011 at 9:50am

let make sure to revisit this in February of next year and see how many miles were actually put down.

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Permalink Reply by igz on February 28, 2011 at 9:53am

also, in reading this...were the pneumatic tubes on both sides of the road?  the study says it did a 24 hr count.  its safe to assume that most of the bike trips were round trip, effectively cutting down the number of 'unique cyclists' in half.

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Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on February 28, 2011 at 10:06am

iggi said:

also, in reading this...were the pneumatic tubes on both sides of the road?  the study says it did a 24 hr count.  its safe to assume that most of the bike trips were round trip, effectively cutting down the number of 'unique cyclists' in half.

If you make the same assumption about cars then it doesn't change the bike percentage which is the important number.

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on February 28, 2011 at 12:35pm

Rahm takes office May 16th. In the tradition of blaming Obama for all of the nation's woes and crying that he "hasn't done anything" a week after taking office, shouldn't we wait only until June or July to declare Rahm's campaign promises empty?

 

Seriously, I am cynical about these stated intentions from head to toe, but I had a chat on Saturday with someone who I respect deeply who seemed to have pretty concrete reason to believe not only that Rahm actually knows what's in the transportation plan on his campaign site, but is sincere about it.  So my mind is at least a little bit opened to the possibility that good things may be to come.

iggi said:

let make sure to revisit this in February of next year and see how many miles were actually put down.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 28, 2011 at 1:06pm

Good to know.  While I wasn't thrilled about the way he was rammed down our throats, thanks to out of town $$$$$ and heavily biased media coverage, I'm trying to keep an open mind and look for opportunities to continue working for a better bike, ped and transit situation in the coming years.

H3N3 said:

Seriously, I am cynical about these stated intentions from head to toe, but I had a chat on Saturday with someone who I respect deeply who seemed to have pretty concrete reason to believe not only that Rahm actually knows what's in the transportation plan on his campaign site, but is sincere about it.  So my mind is at least a little bit opened to the possibility that good things may be to come.

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Permalink Reply by Davo on February 28, 2011 at 5:06pm

I seem to remember them on both sides of the road
iggi said:

also, in reading this...were the pneumatic tubes on both sides of the road?  the study says it did a 24 hr count.  its safe to assume that most of the bike trips were round trip, effectively cutting down the number of 'unique cyclists' in half.

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on February 28, 2011 at 5:09pm

"The on-street biking hot spot of Chicago is at 640 N. Milwaukee Ave., a residential and commercial area between Erie and Ohio streets near the Kennedy Expressway. That's where a high of 3,121 bicyclists were counted on a random September day in 2009 as part of the Chicago Department of Transportation's first bike-count study, which will be released Monday.

Three thousand-plus bikers over 24 hours is a big, big number. Look at it this way: Bicyclists accounted for 22 percent of all traffic passing by that location on Milwaukee Avenue, according to the study. The average daily motor vehicle traffic count there was 11,117 in 2006. The 22 percent bike share casts a large shadow over a citywide average of less than 2 percent bikes on the road."

 

 

22% -wow that is amazing. That number boggles my mind.  Milwaukee Ave really is the hipster highway.  I wish there were better numbers on a year-by-year basis to see how much it has been growing.  My seat of the pants feeling is that each year there are more bikes in that area -especially at drive time doing commuting.  But it is busy at all times of the day too.

 

At what point do they start needing protected car lanes?

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