Good news for bicycling in IL and Chicagoland

On Friday, IDOT announced $90 million in grants going toward bike, walk and streetscape projects.

We blogged about it and some of the projects are mentioned in today's Sun-Times.

A great highlight is that CDOT won a grant to put in a cycle track (separated bike lane) on Stony Island!

Chicagoland alone will get approximately $45 million of the total and some major trail projects are getting significant funding, including the Veterans Memorial Trail and Calumet-Sag Trail.

Good news, for sure!

Ethan Spotts, Marketing & Communications Director, Active Trans

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on November 1, 2010 at 11:11am

Thanks for sharing the good news!

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Permalink Reply by yaj 7.4 on November 1, 2010 at 1:31pm

And thanks to Active Trans and LIB for their roles in bringing in this $$$ to cycling projects!!!

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on November 1, 2010 at 1:48pm

Woo hoo!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on November 1, 2010 at 8:44pm

I was looking for a way to comment on the Route 66 bike trail.
A large portion of it (will) run parallel to Amtrak so I can see a weekend trip downstate in a few years.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on November 2, 2010 at 12:01am

Let's hope that CDOT cycle track doesn't just magically appear one day without some input from the public.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on November 2, 2010 at 12:02am

I bet we can find out who's responsible for building it. Probably IDNR or IDOT.

Mike Zumwalt said:

I was looking for a way to comment on the Route 66 bike trail.
A large portion of it (will) run parallel to Amtrak so I can see a weekend trip downstate in a few years.