TELL GOV. QUINN: Don't put the brakes on protected bike lanes and safer streets!

Whether you're an 8-year-old child or 80-year-old grandmother, you should be able to ride a bike on your community's streets without fearing for your safety. Barrier protected bike lanes are designed with all kinds of people in mind to make biking a safe and easy option for everyone.

But Streetsblog Chicago and the Chicago Tribune have revealed that the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has put the brakes on barrier protected bike lanes and safer streets. This will impact plans for safer streets in both the City of Chicago and the suburbs. Please sign this petition telling Gov. Quinn that IDOT must cooperate with local communities to create safer streets for biking!

TAKE ACTION TODAY! 
Tell Gov. Quinn: Don't put the brakes on protected bike lanes and s...

- Lee Crandell, Active Trans

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Permalink Reply by william on February 11, 2013 at 1:15pm
signed.

I support the construction of PBLs 100%.
Permalink Reply by Agnieszka Z. on February 11, 2013 at 5:27pm

On it. 

Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on February 12, 2013 at 4:49am

Bump

Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on February 12, 2013 at 5:26am

I agree in part that they don't maintain them so they are not usable and again the amount of salt they put down on Kinzie after the last round of minor snow made my bike rust as I rode on it.
Protected lanes are kind of saying we belong somewhere else because we're not really traffic but then have to abide by the same rules.?

With CTA fares going up, the city/state in a budget crisis just spend the money on painting the existing lanes.
Kevin C 4.1 mi said:

Shouldn't the form letter to Gov. Quinn contain at least some language to the effect that the Chicago Department of Transportation and Active Trans reserve the right to continue to recommend and install poorly designed, hastily constructed bike lanes over broken and irregular pavement, and maintain and/or plow it sporadically, secure in the knowledge that the Chicago cycling sheep community will uniformly embrace it as "progress?" 

Permalink Reply by Michelle S on February 13, 2013 at 2:43am

Of course we want to do the bike lanes right, but isn't that what the NACTO people already did; study the best practices and come up with standards that we can follow? I don't know all the details about how these things work, but it seems unnecessary to only look at other Chicago streets when there are plenty of similar facilities already installed elsewhere in North America, like New York, Montreal, and Long Beach.

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