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Bike Lanes on Archer Ave.

Hey everyone, I bet this has been brought up before because I know so many people in the southwest side of Chicago use Archer Ave. to bike to downtown or to the other parts of the city. Is there somewhere I can go to suggest bike lanes for Archer ave? I feel like it should have bike lanes. I always see a lot of bikers on Archer on my commutes from Archer Heights to UIC. 

I'm not sure if people have tried in the past and have been unsuccessful or what the case may be I just think it would be beneficial to a lot of commuters like myself.

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Permalink Reply by Felipe Iniguez on May 13, 2015 at 3:56pm
The whole Southwest side of Chicago is underserved when it comes to bike lanes. I feel like every part of town has some direct route to the downtown area except the SW side. The North has Halsted. The Northwest has Elston & Milwaukee. The West has Washington/Warren & Lake. The South has MLK(although this can go farther south). But the Southwest doesn't really have a street (not counting Ogden, that's more West).

Archer can be the direct route the Southwest needs. 3 huge high schools(Kelly,Curie, & Kennedy). Runs along Orange line. Runs along I-55. All of the other routes run along expressways & rail lines EXCEPT the SW side.

I appauld Divvy for expanding to 35th& Archer and Ashland & Archer but do you realize that there are hardly any bike lanes in those vicinities? Definitely needs more bike infrastructure to lure people out.
Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on May 13, 2015 at 5:00pm

Halsted is very useful, if it's close to where you need to go. I also like Damen south of 47th.

In general, I very much agree that the southwest side is ridiculously underdeserved in terms of bike infrastructure.  Archer connects so many neighborhoods, schools, businesses, transit stops, etc.  It's logistically complex, but very necessary as a bike route.

Aside from Archer, where else would you like to see bike lanes?  Please make specific suggestions.  I'd love to take your ideas to the next Mayor's Bike Advisory Council meeting in a few weeks.  Please post your ideas here AND shoot me an email at: s4c (dot) south (at) gmail (dot) com.   (Sorry about the indirect format of the email address - trying to prevent spam.)

Permalink Reply by V W on May 13, 2015 at 9:45pm
Doesn't the city have an environmental department? Why aren't they doing anything to create an outlet for these issues and to promote biking?
Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on May 14, 2015 at 8:49am

The city has a bike program, under CDOT. That's the venue for these issues.

Permalink Reply by Maurice on May 14, 2015 at 11:31am

Canal needs work.  The area around Union Station currently is being reconstructed and the area near Roosevelt is extremely dangeous.  (Both of these issues are disussed in other threads.)  Also, it probably should be striped for bikes from 18th to 26th St., especially the part that crosses the river.  No logical reason for the lane to start north of 18th (without even intersecting with 18th!) since so many cyclists use this route to get downtown from Pilsen, Bridgeport, etc.  Currently, this stretch is like Archer, randomly alternating between 2 lanes and 4 lanes, so that's another reason to stripe it for bikes.

Permalink Reply by Samuel Diaz on May 14, 2015 at 2:55pm

Archer would be the most important in my books, I haven't been on Western or California recently but to me those would be good choices for bike lanes on the southside. Maybe even Kedzie and Pulaski too

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