You Can Spend $5.2 Million in Chicago Menu Funds for Better Bicycling

There are 4 Chicago Aldermen who each have $1.3 Million to spend in their wards and want their constituents to tell them how to spend it. This is called participatory budgeting. If you want that money to go towards bicycling infrastructure, now is your chance. Click on the link below to find the dates and locations of participatory budgeting meetings in those wards, so you can make a difference on the streets we ride. If they do not spend it on bike improvements, they will spend it on something else. For a Chicago ward map, click here.

Alderman James Cappleman, 46th Ward 

Alderman Joe Moore 49th Ward 

Alderman John Arena, 45th Ward 

Alderman Leslie Hairston, 5th Ward 

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 17, 2012 at 5:48am

Makes me wish my ward (19th) had participatory budgeting.  Another thing to ask for...

Permalink Reply by Shawn C. on October 17, 2012 at 5:55am

Me too (33rd)!
 
Anne Alt said:

Makes me wish my ward (19th) had participatory budgeting.  Another thing to ask for...

Permalink Reply by Tricolor on October 17, 2012 at 5:57am

Joe Moore hasn't done anything to make getting to Evanston any easier yet.  Last year it was determining which artists got money and permission to paint murals on some the Red Line underpasses.  This year the boundaries changed and I'm in the 48th.  I guess Osterman's cash will all go to letting Loyola take over all my local streets and making sure everyone in Andersonville is still coddled.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 17, 2012 at 6:31am

When I lived in the 49th, I asked more than once for a contraflow lane on Eastlake from Rogers to the Sheridan curve, and that didn't happen.  The Howard St. bike lanes help a little bit.

Seems like too many otherwise good bike streets are either one way on the Chicago or Evanston side of Howard (such as Custer-Damen) or lack a 4-way stop to make it reasonable to cross Howard.  Chicago Ave. has always sucked to varying degrees, but most of the difficulty in connecting is on the Evanston side of the border.

Tricolor said:

Joe Moore hasn't done anything to make getting to Evanston any easier yet.  Last year it was determining which artists got money and permission to paint murals on some the Red Line underpasses.  This year the boundaries changed and I'm in the 48th.  I guess Osterman's cash will all go to letting Loyola take over all my local streets and making sure everyone in Andersonville is still coddled.

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