Mayoral Candidates - Who Is Bike Savvy? Thoughts?

When asking around, I heard these three candidates are some potential good bike-friendly options:

Mendoza

Lightfoot

Eniya

Let's use this thread to discuss, bring in articles, quotations, and proof of bike-savviness. Cool?

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Permalink Reply by JeffB on February 12, 2019 at 9:49am

@BikeLaneUprise has been contacting candidates and is posting their replies here:

https://airtable.com/shreQdX6vmdOTmZD7/tblghu48rLM5CGkRY

Permalink Reply by JeffB on February 14, 2019 at 9:00am

Active Trans has posted the candidates responses to their transportation questionnaire:

https://www.activetransnow.org/city-of-chicago

Permalink Reply by Phillip Hutchinson on February 15, 2019 at 2:33am

Thanks for sharing this JeffB.

I appreciate that this also includes responses from Aldermanic candidates. 

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on February 22, 2019 at 11:09am
Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on February 25, 2019 at 8:56pm

Lightfoot is NOT nor has been a member of City Council.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on February 26, 2019 at 4:02am

That's a pretty broad paintbrush you're wielding, keto. Furthermore, as I read it, she served as Interim First Deputy of the Chicago Department of Procurement Services and was in the post for less than a year.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on February 26, 2019 at 6:12am

With  a field of 14 and no one polling over 20 percent, yeah, a run-off was always guaranteed. Given how tight the polls' margins are (for what they are worth), I would be quite surprised if we know the top two vote-getters by this evening.

Bill Daley's proximity to the Chicago way goes far deeper than just his father and brother, Richard J. and Richard M., the former mayors of Chicago. Then there's his brother John, Cook County Commissioner. His nephew, Patrick Daley Thompson, the current 11th Ward Alderman. And then there is his son, William Daley, Jr., a registered lobbyist at City Hall in his capacity as an executive at Morgan Stanley.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on February 25, 2019 at 11:26pm

"It's Time To Unite!"

https://lightfootforchicago.com

Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on February 26, 2019 at 3:42am

Here are candidates' responses to Streetsblog's transportation questionnaire:

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2019/02/25/cyclists-of-color-convened-a...

Permalink Reply by Bob Kastigar on February 26, 2019 at 3:46am

https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170918/jefferson-park/susana-mend...

On July 30, Mendoza was riding her bike on Austin Avenue with her husband and 4-year-old son when "all of a sudden this huge truck just plowed through the red light" at Gunnison Street "like he didn't even see it," Mendoza said.

A few blocks later, the comptroller and her family rolled up to Higgins Avenue to find that the same driver — who appeared "under the influence of something" — had launched his Ford Super Duty into a line of three cars, leaving one woman with a "gash" on her arm, Mendoza said.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on February 26, 2019 at 4:23am

Yeah, yeah, yeah, "Say 'Cheese!" I loved this when it first hit the news back in 2017, and I have long been a fan of Susanna Mendoza's style. But not this time. She's not what Chicago needs.

Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on February 26, 2019 at 4:36am

I love the discussion all over social media about the mayoral candidates. Thoughtful, insightful, and passionate. I miss Chicago and wish I could fly back to vote (that'd be wrong). 

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