Why do you want Bike Boulevards in Chicago?

Bike Boulevards Now! is a single-issue, grassroots group committed to having Chicago build a bike boulevard by 2011.  A bike boulevard is a street designed for cyclists to get where they need to go (e.g. across town) without being endangered by speeding cars.  It is _not_ a bike path - some cars are allowed.  Bike boulevards prioritize bike traffic and slow down and/or discourage car traffic.  It's typically a residential side street (the kind cyclists already like), not an arterial or a busy shopping strip.  It may have treatments like speed bumps to slow cars down, and it may have some openings that bikes, but not cars can go through. 

Chicago has a lot of streets, and right now car dominate all of them - and that makes biking scary, and it keeps some people from riding at all.  But just a few streets set aside as bike boulevards would make a huge difference to us cyclists, and could help get a lot more people on bikes.

Bike Boulevards Now! is here to tell Chicago decision-makers how many people think having bike boulevards is really important.  Why are they important?  Tell your story about what happened to you because the street was not designed for you to be safe, and how a bike boulevard could solve that kind of problem.