What's this doing in the bike lane?

Share your pics, videos, streets, stories of what you find in the bike lane of the non-bike variety that has an impact on your ride and/or your safety. I've decided to keep it a little more open ended - cars, snow, buses, garbage, cabs, etc. If they shouldn't be in the bike lane, go ahead and add it to this thread. Please be safe if you are taking pics or video! :-)

My hope is that we can collectively build some evidence of what we see when riding in the city with the overall hope of better enforcement of "bikes only" and improving maintenance.

Update: More Hashtags to Capture Vehicles in the Bike Lane

With popular hashtags:
#BikeLaneShaming

#LaneSpreading (Chicago Bike Selling)

#ClearTheWay (ActiveTrans), there are many options to capture violations.

We think you should use ALL of them AND post your photos on The Chainlink. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Sean Newby on May 16, 2018 at 10:02am

makes one wonder how serious the city is about Vision Zero if they continually refuse to address such blatant abuses.

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on May 16, 2018 at 11:04am

223 N Franklin St. 311 report submitted.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on May 16, 2018 at 4:01pm

I cannot roll my eyes enough at some of this...

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on May 17, 2018 at 11:57am

351 N Orleans St. 311 reports submitted. Another Thursday rush, another total clusterf*ck.

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on May 18, 2018 at 9:56am

I ran into an employee of the Finance Department yesterday when I was out grabbing lunch. He was on a bike on Van Buren St. I asked him why he wasn't over on Franklin writing tickets. He replied that he's all over the downtown area. I said that's nice, but we were told that the purpose of collecting 311 data on vehicles was to help identify hotspots for enforcement, and Van Buren certainly isn't one of them.

I asked him how many tickets he has written on Franklin in the last year, and he estimated around 30. I asked him how it's possible for me to submit over 200 reports for Franklin St in the past year when I ride 20 minutes a day, and yet he's only written 30 tickets during a full day's shift.

As expected, I didn't get much of an answer, and he said he'd ride over to Franklin to check it out.

Oy f*cking veh.