Category: Cycling Planning and Resources

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Darlene McCue was killed when a car hit her bicycle in Kendall County. | Submitted photo
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Woman forms group to find Yorkville bike path

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jan 08, 2012 in Cycling Planning and Resources

By Steve Lord slord@stmedianetwork.com Updated: January 1, 2012 2:38AM hearldnews.com YORKVILLE — When Darlene McCue’s husband, Dan, died of cancer in 2005, her neighbor across the street, Lynn Dubajic, was there to comfort her. Dubajic, Yorkville Economic Development Corp. director, helped Darlene through the tough times, and Darlene was there just three years later when Lynn’s [...]

Los Angeles Traffic Jam
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The True Cost of Commuting

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 29, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Mr. Money Mustache Blog It was a beautiful evening in my neighborhood, and I was enjoying one of my giant homebrews on a deck chair I had placed in the middle of the street, as part of a nearby block’s Annual Street Party. I was talking to a couple I had just met, and the topic turned [...]

Slowing Down the City
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In the future, urban bikers go faster than cars

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 27, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources

Cities around the world are considering radical new speed limits on cars — slowing down in the name of progress BY WILL DOIG salon.com In Hollywood movies, the cities of the future have speeding monorails and flying cars, everyone careening toward their destination at a zillion miles per hour. (The future always looks surprisingly like “The [...]

Chicago Cyclists In The Loop - Photo: Steven Vance
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Spandex wars: Chicago bike critic looks crappy in tights

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Dec 10, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources

BY GREG HANSCOM grist.org The two-wheeled revolution has arrived in the Windy City, thanks to its bike-loving mayor, Rahm Emanuel. (Finally, a way to describe the man without calling him a potty mouth!) During his campaign, Emanuel pledged to build 100 miles of new separated bike lanes within five years. The first of them went in this [...]

A sharrow in Baltimore. Photo: Elly Blue
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Tracking the ‘sharrow’ on city streets

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Nov 29, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

BY ELLY BLUE 17 NOV 2011 7:06 AM grist.org Visiting Seattle last weekend, it was impossible not to notice that its streets are absolutely covered in sharrows. “It’s almost like they polluted the streets with them,” said Tom Fucoloro, proprietor of the Seattle Bike Blog, who took me on a walk through the city’s Central District, [...]

Library of Congress - Columbus Circle, 1921. The streetcar and the automobile only slowly pushed pedestrians out of the roadbed.
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The Pedestrian Loses the Way

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Nov 19, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY Published: November 10, 2011 nytimes.com In the future, perhaps our time will be known as the first decade of the Bicycle Wars, with righteous armies fighting over traffic lanes, bike paths and sidewalks, indeed over the very purpose of the streets themselves. Like many wars, it’s a question of territory, and the [...]

Riders Checking Out Hoan Alternative
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Biking the Hoan would be better, riders conclude after trip downtown

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Oct 27, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

By Tom Held of the Journal Sentinel Oct. 17, 2011 Biking over the Hoan would be better, three dozen bicyclists concluded Monday after dodging traffic on a purposeful ride from Humboldt Park to the Discovery World Museum. The result was no surprise. State Sen. Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee) and his legislative neighbor Rep. Jon Richards set [...]

Poster in the City of Muenster Planning Office, August 2001 (Credit: PressOffice City of Munster, Germany)
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Twenty-year-old German sustainability poster finds fame on Facebook

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Oct 19, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

by MEGAN TAYLOR MORRISON Oct 18, 2011 Medill Reports A photo of a 20-year-old poster designed in Münster, Germany, to promote the use of alternative transportation has suddenly gone viral on Facebook. In one week, the image has collected more than 40,000 “likes” and nearly 30,000 “shares” from Facebook users across the world. The picture shows [...]

Going Dutch : Chuck Pengilly
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Junction design the Dutch – cycle friendly – way

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 24, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Uploaded by markenlei on Apr 3, 2011 The Dutch build cycle paths right on their junctions. So they must have wider streets, right? Wrong! This video shows how it is done, no extra space needed. More info: http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2011/04/state-of-art-bikeway-design-or-is-it.html

Laurent Jalabert
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Website : Downers Grove Bicycle Club

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Sep 07, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

WordPress To The Rescue If you have been wondering what sort of engine drives Beezodog’s Place website then wonder no longer. We use WordPress. And evidently so do the good folks of the Downers Grove Bicycle Club! I can only guess that my assumption is correct because they have a website template that studiously avoids [...]

Cyclists ride eastbound in the Kinzie Street protected bike lane. Photo by Joshua Koonce.
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Chicago’s Bike Lane Design Guide

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 29, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Here is a vintage document “dug up” by one of the ChainLink forum participants. It is of special interest with the advent of the new Chicago Bike Lanes along streets like Kinzie. Chicago’s Bike Lane Design Guide (PDF)

Columbia College Bike Parking
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Buddy Guy parking lot now BIKE parking lot

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 04, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Excerpted from the ChainLink Columbia College down in the South Loop has chosen to convert the former Buddy Guy’s parking lot into a secure bike parking lot for it’s students and staff. Here’s part of their announcement today: “We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday August 3rd, the College will open the newly reconfigured [...]

The Serious Business of Mileage Mongering
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Bicycle Club Ride Calendar System

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Aug 01, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Problem Statement You need to find a way to inform your club members of upcoming rides. The internet is a great way of doing this because: It provides a simple means for the ride leader or their proxy to register an upcoming ride Club members can then visit a page where they can view a [...]

Today's shoot was at Waterfront Park. I saw many types of bikes and people. It was great to see the summer styles. Scroll down for more. (All photos © J. Maus)
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Non-Competitive Cycling : Growing the Sport

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jul 20, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Growing the Sport Remember when tennis was enjoying its boom years in the 1970s? It gained in popularity when any number of young Americans became proficient enough to win the coveted major tournaments. Likewise cycling enjoyed a growth spurt in the 1970s as a result of the advent of cross country touring trips in celebration [...]

Kory Northrop; data from the Federal Highway Administration.
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The Bicycle Dividend

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jul 04, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

By NANCY FOLBRE nytimes.com Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. More Americans are biking or walking to work these days, in part because public-sector investment is improving the infrastructure they need to get there safely. Further public investments in bike paths and bike lanes are likely to offer a big [...]

City of Chicago Seal
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Chicago’s new transportation chief sets a new course

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jun 13, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Jon Hilkevitch June 13, 2011 chicagotribune.com Klein hopes to drive city toward public transit options Gabe Klein shows no signs of being your typical transportation commissioner, which means if he makes no waves and leaves Chicago quietly after a couple of years he won’t have done his job well. Klein describes himself on Twitter as “DC/CHI [...]

Vimeo: 3-Way Street
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Vimeo: 3-Way Street

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jun 08, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

by ronconcocacola By summer 2010, the expansion of bike lanes in NYC exposed a clash of long-standing bad habits — such as pedestrians jaywalking, cyclists running red lights, and motorists plowing through crosswalks. By focusing on one intersection as a case study, my video aims to show our interconnection and shared role in improving the [...]

Where thousands of bicyclists will probably start their journey on the Kinzie Street protected bike lane.
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Chicago’s first protected bike lane to go in on Kinzie Street

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jun 06, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

by STEVEVANCE on JUNE 4, 2011 Steven Can Plan Updated June 5, 2011: New information obtained from the alderman’s email newsletter; new design suggestions added based on comments. Please read the discussion in the comments below or the discussion on The Chainlink. Tony Arnold of WBEZ reported Saturday morning, seemingly based on Alderman Reilly’s latest newsletter (see below for [...]

How the Netherlands Creates Bike Lanes
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How the Netherlands Creates Bike Lanes

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on Jun 04, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

Rolling out a red carpet for cyclists (Netherlands) Bicycle lanes in the Netherlands are red. They are like a red carpet for cyclists. They are not just a bit of paint. It is actually a thick layer of very smooth red asphalt. This video shows a road (Parklaan) being resurfaced in the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch [...]

Rahm Emanuel speaks at a campaign event. (Tribune file photo)
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Can Chicago be the most bike-friendly city in the US?

Posted (Not Necessarily Written) By on May 21, 2011 in Cycling Planning and Resources, Featured

BY RUTHIE KOTT Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:59 a.m. redeyechicago.com In three years, Seville, Spain, has upped its bicycle usage from about 6,000 to 60,000 trips per day. Starting in 2006, the city overhauled its transportation infrastructure to make it more bike-friendly, creating more than 75 miles of dedicated bike lanes, removing parking spaces in [...]

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