iblockthebikelane.com - New Bicycle Awareness Campaigns

Hi Chainlink community!

I'm in the process of a launching a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of safety issues and laws related to bicycle lanes.

I'm enlisting the help of bikers to place iblockthebikelane.com easy-peel stickers on vehicles illegally standing or parking in clearly marked bike lanes. The website behind the stickers includes a friendly reminder that blocking lanes is illegal and dangerous, as well as bicycle-related news and information.

Please check out the website (www.iblockthebikelane.com), "like" the official Facebook page (i block the bike lane) and tell your friends about the campaign! And hopefully my Chainlink group will be active very soon, too!

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on August 8, 2012 at 1:09am

Oh, that is rich.

Maybe it is someone's wife/husband driving the jeep? I bet that the owner lives in the burbs too. If you spend any time on some bike forums you'll find a few riders who are extremely anti-urban riding or at least have no clue and unrealistic expectations about it.

Check out This Thread over at BikeForums.net by a path-rider who is upset that some roadies actually took the lane so they could turn left. He expected them all to do a "pedestrian left" at the crosswalk on the far side of the intersection so he didn't have to "go slow" for a hundred yards waiting to turn left.

Seriously. Not all people who ride bikes have a clue.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on August 8, 2012 at 1:15am

Yes, probably a suburbanite. The irony is priceless.

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Permalink Reply by Michael A on August 8, 2012 at 3:29am

As far as I know that is not any of the HAC racer's jeep, we do give out sticker for free at races,events and at the brewery... this person seems to be a sticker junkie.. I also want you to all look at the signs in the pic. it CLEARLY says no parking in front of that black post, and to pay at the meter for parking behind it. I am pretty sure this looks like it is at the beginning of the protected bike lanes but if my car was ticketed there and I had these photos, I would surely win in court.

S said:

The funny part is that pretty much all of the stickers are cycling related. If I had to guess, the owner races in both road and mountain bike races. I'm sure if you got some half-acre racers to look at the pics they could tell you whose car that is.

djm said:

I dont know if theres any room left for a sticker:

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on August 8, 2012 at 3:34am

As much as I hate to bag on the suburbs I can;t help but notice the lack of city sticker on that Jeep...

James BlackHeron said:

Oh, that is rich.

Maybe it is someone's wife/husband driving the jeep? I bet that the owner lives in the burbs too. If you spend any time on some bike forums you'll find a few riders who are extremely anti-urban riding or at least have no clue and unrealistic expectations about it.

Check out This Thread over at BikeForums.net by a path-rider who is upset that some roadies actually took the lane so they could turn left. He expected them all to do a "pedestrian left" at the crosswalk on the far side of the intersection so he didn't have to "go slow" for a hundred yards waiting to turn left.

Seriously. Not all people who ride bikes have a clue.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on August 8, 2012 at 3:36am

I don't think you would because if you look he is clearly inside of the parking area in the protected bike lanes. you can see open space that may be an open spot in front of the car parked behind him. In the other picture it is not clear if that was a whole spot or just the end space of the parking but either way he is clearly inside of the bollards and in the middle of a bike lane.

Regardless of that if this person rides a bike they should be publicly shamed for this.

Michael A said:

As far as I know that is not any of the HAC racer's jeep, we do give out sticker for free at races,events and at the brewery... this person seems to be a sticker junkie.. I also want you to all look at the signs in the pic. it CLEARLY says no parking in front of that black post, and to pay at the meter for parking behind it. I am pretty sure this looks like it is at the beginning of the protected bike lanes but if my car was ticketed there and I had these photos, I would surely win in court.

S said:

The funny part is that pretty much all of the stickers are cycling related. If I had to guess, the owner races in both road and mountain bike races. I'm sure if you got some half-acre racers to look at the pics they could tell you whose car that is.

djm said:

I dont know if theres any room left for a sticker:

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on August 8, 2012 at 3:43am

This was taken in front of the AltaK rental towers. It is 3 blocks from the S-T building.

I doubt *that* guy would walk that far to drop of an Op-Ed column

Cameron Puetz said:

He's a cyclist, but not that kind of cyclist. It looks like this was taken near the Sun-Times building, maybe he was just running in to drop off an op-ed column.

djm said:

I dont know if theres any room left for a sticker:

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Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on August 8, 2012 at 3:51am

guys. it says chrome and has a "specialized" logo on it and has a bike on top, also half acre brewing, we're cool, right? i'm practically a bike.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on August 8, 2012 at 5:02am

Exactly. Note the building in the background on the right of the first photo (looking west). That's Blommer Chocolate.

Duppie said:

This was taken in front of the AltaK rental towers. It is 3 blocks from the S-T building.

I doubt *that* guy would walk that far to drop of an Op-Ed column