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Share your pics, videos, streets, stories of what you find in the bike lane of the non-bike variety that has an impact on your ride and/or your safety. I've decided to keep it a little more open ended - cars, snow, buses, garbage, cabs, etc. If they shouldn't be in the bike lane, go ahead and add it to this thread. Please be safe if you are taking pics or video! :-) 

My hope is that we can collectively build some evidence of what we see when riding in the city with the overall hope of better enforcement of "bikes only" and improving maintenance. 

Update: More Hashtags to Capture Vehicles in the Bike Lane

With popular hashtags:
#BikeLaneShaming

#LaneSpreading (Chicago Bike Selling)

#ClearTheWay (ActiveTrans), there are many options to capture violations.

We think you should use ALL of them AND post your photos on The Chainlink. ;-)

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Maybe a printout of pics of the car with a note saying "311 report filed."

My personal bete noir is 210 S DesPlaines.  When I told the Rav4 driver she was in a bike lane, she gave me a half-hearted "sorry, I didn't know" and then bitched on the phone that she just got called out for parking in a bike lane.

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Dispatch taxi in the SB Elston bike lane a couple doors down from their building. Filed a 311 report.

1 S. Franklin St. 311 report filed. 'Classic case of why blocking a bike lane should result in the suspension of a commercial drivers license. 'Poor cyclist is about to be run over.

1850 W. Roosevelt Rd - 05/24/2017 @7:10am

IL E74 7706

311 report filed - partially obstructing the bike lane.

1850 W. Roosevelt Rd - 05/24/2017 @7:10am

IL N59 1875

311 report filed - partially obstructing the bike lane.

1850 W. Roosevelt Road - 05/24/2017 @ 7:45am

IL  S10 1565

311 report filed

1850 W. Roosevelt Road - 05/24/2017 @ 11:45am - took a walk to get some lunch and:

Well, well, well....

Street sweeping tickets? ;-) Congrats Gopher, way to go ! Your persistence and dedicated efforts for change have begun to show results. That's the way it is in life, and Chicago. Bravo!

1850 W. Roosevelt Rd - 05/25/2017 @ 7:35am

IL G56 4251

311 report filed.

225 N Franklin St. 311 report submitted.

Riding back to Ogilvie on my DIVVY a few minutes ago, I encounter a car in the bike lane, lights blinking. I go around him (into Randolph traffic), hold out my arm, palm raised, as if you ask, "hey, what gives?" - no one finger salute, or anything like that. The dude honks at me, like I was at fault. What's up with that?

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