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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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1850 W. Roosevelt Road (Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind)

02/21/2018 @ 3:30pm - there for several hours

IL X698906

1850 W. Roosevelt Road (Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind)

02/22/2018 @ 12:10pm (has been there a couple of hours)

IL 5772390

Still there several hours later

Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind

1850 W. Roosevelt Road

02/22/2018 @ 3:55pm 

IL 5772390

Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind

1850 W. Roosevelt Road

02/22/2018 @ 3:55pm 

IL N196325 (second day in a row, there for several hours)

1848 W. Polk Street

02/22/2018 @ 4:00pm 

IL K6107xx (rideshare)

1700 block of W. Polk Street bollard protected parking, oops bike, lane

02/22/2018 @ 4:00pm

1719 W. Polk Street

02/22/2018 @ 4:00pm

USPS

1737 W. Polk Street

02/22/2018 @ 4:00pm

IL Q692762

1737 W. Polk Street

02/22/2018 @ 4:00pm

IL Q891995

1737 W. Polk Street

02/22/2018 @ 4:00pm

IL V448085

That's absolutely astonishing, Gopher Bike.

I actually made it home yesterday without seeing a single vehicle in the bike lanes. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

Apparently the city is so awash in cash that tens of thousands of dollars in lost ticket revenue is meaningless to them.

Have you tried contacting the Dept of Finance? I have a feeling the police don't give a rat's a** about enforcement. The Finance Dept. is responsible for the parking ticket program.

Here's a fruitless exercise guaranteed to make you want to smash your head repeatedly on a hard surface. Just try to find a phone number or email for the Finance Dept. Everything on their website is oriented towards paying tickets, not reporting violations. After several minutes of clicking around, I managed to find the name of the city comptroller, but no contact information or direct phone number. WTF.

 

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