Cars in bike lanes #enforce940060

Hi all,

I know hashtag campaigns don't have a very good rep, but I have found that tweeting and facebooking things to companies can be somewhat effective. In that vein, I'm sure you've all noticed how many cars park in bike lanes with no fear of enforcement, and I thought it might be good if we could start tweeting pictures of cars in bike lanes to @ChicagoDOT @ChicagosMayor and @Chicago_Police and using the hashtag #enforce940060 (the municipal code about cars in bike lanes). We can subscribe to it and easily retweet eachothers pictures. Maybe we can be annoying enough to get this law enforced? 
Here's my inaugural tweets on the tag 

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on August 4, 2014 at 5:20am

One can only hope she regrets her actions.

On my way home in the Kinzie bike lane, I rang my bell and slowed down on a couple walking the entire width of the lane in front of the Mart. They gave me an offended type look for even being there. Go figure.

I regret not taking a photo of these two numbskullz.


h' 1.0 said:

After having this image posted on the internet, I have no doubt this woman deeply regrets her actions and will never set foot in a bike lane again.

Juan 2-8 mi. said:

One of my favorites is the pedestrians waiting for their taxi or lyft to pick them up in the bike lane.

I overheard a conversation that the Dutch are very aggressive with those types. Me, I just ring my bell then resort to my airhorn if they really need to wake up.

Permalink Reply by R W on August 5, 2014 at 11:25am

A nice write-up on Streetsblog. 

http://chi.streetsblog.org/2014/08/05/eyes-on-the-street-twitter-us...

Thanks, Steven! Keep up the tweets!

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Murphy on August 5, 2014 at 1:40pm

Cool. Here's another photo I took yesterday. Feel free to post it as well.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100496967440092&l=2f3...


Clement Jett said:

Thanks for the photos Kathleen. I put em up here

Permalink Reply by Clement Jett on August 5, 2014 at 3:33pm

Thanks Kathleen. Wow, three in a row parked there.

http://t.co/ghdxi9LROR

Kathleen said:

Cool. Here's another photo I took yesterday. Feel free to post it as well.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100496967440092&l=2f3...


Clement Jett said:

Thanks for the photos Kathleen. I put em up here

Permalink Reply by Clement Jett on August 7, 2014 at 4:14am

I got a good response from Michelle Smith on your picture yesterday Kathleen. Tagging the alderman in these seems to help

Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on August 8, 2014 at 6:03am

Anyone ever seen these types of police write up violators?

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on August 8, 2014 at 6:28am
Rarely. Patrol officers have other priorities. You will see Dept. of Revenue workers on bicycles writing up violations.
Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on August 8, 2014 at 6:40am

I have seen bicycle police writing tickets for no city sticker to cars parked in the park at Belmont Harbor.

Permalink Reply by BootsyC on August 8, 2014 at 7:00am

On bikes? No.

But there is a nice cop who stands on the SW corner of Kinzie and Lasalle most mornings who is not shy about giving tickets to cars standing by the curb and people on their cell phones, if the E. bound light is red.

Juan 2-8 mi. said:

Anyone ever seen these types of police write up violators?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on August 8, 2014 at 11:49am

I'm intrigued that when we tried hashing out this very same issue here a year and a half ago the responses ranged from tepid to heckling.  And when MyBikeLane came and went some two years ago nobody cared.  Perhaps because this version is practical action oriented and tags city and alderpeople, where others were just shaming, it'll fly.  Still I must say this is the most absurdly obscure hashtag I've ever seen, and I dearly wish we didn't keep reinventing wheels. But good luck!

Permalink Reply by Clement Jett on August 10, 2014 at 3:09pm

My reinventing the wheel is probably due to the fact that I wasn't active on these boards during the time periods you described. The obscurity is due to me trying to cram useful information into a few characters. Maybe I made a mistake in trying to do that.

The only way it's going to fly is if we continue our efforts to build off the early success we have had, which is largely getting people to use it. If we could go from getting about 8 photos a day being tagged, to about 10 times that, then we can really make the case that the city is letting an unsafe situation fly and leaving a ton of money on the table. The responses we've gotten from a few public officials have been positive, but I'm really after a sustained change in the status quo

Andronymous said:

I'm intrigued that when we tried hashing out this very same issue here a year and a half ago the responses ranged from tepid to heckling.  And when MyBikeLane came and went some two years ago nobody cared.  Perhaps because this version is practical action oriented and tags city and alderpeople, where others were just shaming, it'll fly.  Still I must say this is the most absurdly obscure hashtag I've ever seen, and I dearly wish we didn't keep reinventing wheels. But good luck!

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on August 11, 2014 at 5:47am

It's that it can't be recalled from scratch, like there I am looking at the car, never tweeted, whatamigonna text... Instinct says #mybikelane or #chidouche or #verytinypenis

But empirically speaking this got the most traction ever on the topic with news picking it up even, clearly something about it works.  So #enforce940060 it is!  I've just gotta remember it.

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