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Via their blog, the Active Transportation Alliance (formerly the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation) reports on their first committee meeting about revising the excellent and essential Chicagoland Regional Bike Map. They are also still seeking committee participants from all over the region to take responsibility for proofing existing bike routes and providing new information. Contact Carolyn Helmke [...] Velib bikes in Paris. Photo by the noggin_nogged (Creative Commons) Today’s Tribune has an editorial exploring what’s happened since Mayor Daley proposed bringing a Paris-style bike sharing model to Chicago after a visit to France in late 2007. Long story short: bike sharing is more complicated than the city realized, and the Paris model hasn’t [...] After posting Matt Yglesias’s observations on mass transit safety yesterday, I had a vague recollection he wrote something along similar lines about bicycles a couple weeks ago. It turns out, I was remembering him linking to an interesting post on Streetsblog, highlighting data from NYC that as the number of bicycle riders goes up in [...] |
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