Fight the Dickens Avenue Greenway NIMBYs!

Chicago Department of Transportation data shows that neighborhood greenways, traffic-calmed side-street bike routes, increase biking and decrease total crashes.

But some homeowners on Dickens Avenue have launched a fear-mongering website and flyering campaign against the proposed Dickens Avenue greenway, which would help create a low-stress connection between The 606 and the Lakefront Trail.

Come show your support for the project at the community meeting next Thursday, August 22, 6 p.m. The venue for this meeting has been changed to accommodate more people. It will be held at the Lincoln Park High School auditorium, 2001 N. Orchard Ave.

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2019/08/16/cdot-data-shows-greenways-re...

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Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on June 12, 2020 at 5:45am

"Before It's Too Late" -- echoes of Bernie Epton's near-miss mayoral run against Harold Washington in 1983. Bernie would have been Chicago's first Jewish mayor and first Republican since 1931.

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Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on June 12, 2020 at 8:50am

Yes, I noticed that back in August.

https://twitter.com/greenfieldjohn/status/1162853446292316165

FWIW: "By his own account, Epton became uncomfortable with the racially-oriented nature of his campaign because he had been an active participant in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He would have become the city's first Jewish mayor^[4] (an accomplishment that eventually was claimed by Rahm Emanuel when he was elected in 2011) and its first Republican mayor since William Hale Thompson left office in 1931."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Epton

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Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on June 12, 2020 at 12:24pm

And John, your point of linking to the Wikipedia entry AND re-posting your tweet from 9-10 months ago?? Is this furthering any understanding?? Echo, echo, echo...