Chicago's recent bike parking challenges on VWYF

http://votewithyourfeetchicago.blogspot.com/

This week Vote With Your Feet checks in with my old employers,
the Chicago Department of Transportation and Active Transportation
Alliance, to get updates on three current bike parking issues:
disappearing parking meters, the cancellation of the Grant Park bike valet
and U-lock-unfriendly racks at CTA stations.

Keep on walking, biking and transit-ing,

John Greenfield

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Permalink Reply by Tiberculosis on June 11, 2009 at 12:19pm

Thanks for the report. Just the other day I had one of those "oh shit...where am I gonna park my bike" moments and the impact of the new meters hit me. Fingers crossed.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on June 11, 2009 at 12:53pm

Good piece, John. Thank you.

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Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on June 11, 2009 at 2:46pm

According to CDOT, the CTA bike rack locking mechanisms are currently being fabricated. Installation should begin next month. They don't have a timetable for completion, but they promise it will be this summer.

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Permalink Reply by T.C. O'Rourke on June 11, 2009 at 8:39pm

Maybe this kind of muckraking is fit for the Critical Mass Listserve, but I can't stand for our good friends at CDOT to be slandered this way.

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