I swapped out my winter tire over the weekend, so of course snow is forcasted for Wednesday. My bad y'all.

Unfortunately for many, car dependency isn’t a choice. Suburban life is subsidized, and property near transit hubs is expensive. Auto and gas execs lobbied politicans to secure their profits. And this forces folks into a debt spiral.

The US Navy might soon be escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile my annual bike tune-up at the neighborhood bike shop is gonna cost around $80.

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Lincoln Park is just one big ring camera.

New from us! Mayor Brandon Johnson endorsed us in 2023, now he is against our safety. The City of Chicago opposes HB2454, a bill that would make bicyclists intended users of all roads only on a disconnected network of streets rather than all streets. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/06/o...

One of Chicago’s flaws is our obsession with piloting already-proven things. We scrutinize a small data set, and council talks itself in circles before (maybe) implementing weak-ass half-measures.

My coworker just said “sultry search” when they meant to say “search results”.

With TJs coming and Congress Theater getting restored, demand and property values for that area of Logan are gonna rise. We must build more housing. There are so many empty lots.

I wonder which amount is more: money spent downtown by folks with email jobs who are forced to commute for “office culture”, Or, money spent dealing with car crashes and highway maintenance due to those commuters.

If they follow the speed limit and don’t run red lights or stop signs, could be nice? Will non-drivers be safer with these on the road? Will it yield to people crossing 4-lane roads at unsigned zebra crossings?

Just incase you needed more reasons to ride a bike in Logan Square, the traffic in this area is going to get worse.

Mamdani put out an message saying the city will pay people who show up to city garages with IDs to shovel. He’s basically speedrunning a #PlowtheSidewalks program.

Uber bought Spot Hero. Will the resulting enshitification shift more drivers towards active transit? Or will drivers embrace the intensified hell they’ve been building since the 50s?

The city lets individuals report 311 tickets for icy sidewalks, and theoretically the associated property owners get fined. Reporting parking violations is the same concept. Does the city enforce the plow-sidewalk ordinance? Are folks who report icy sidewalks "quasi-vigilantes"?

We’re losing. A bunch of you need to sign this.

Since the tariffs were illegal, how about we just don’t file federal taxes until he **** and we call it even?

I was biking inbound last night at 5:45 on Milwaukee through insane traffic to get to the @bscactionfund.org social. The inbound Kennedy was shut down due to a shooting that had happened earlier that day, which caused traffic chaos elsewhere in the area.

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We've got a how-to on filing witness slips this session. Use our video to learn how to file a witness slip to support safe streets legislation and to oppose the kind that makes us less safe.

All USians should be required to spend a year in a non-English-speaking region where they experience and work through linguistic discomfort. This way, they won’t grow up to be snowflakes who complain about a 15-minute Super Bowl Halftime Show in Spanish. Grow up and don’t be racist.

Juvenile framing. You'd think the author is in high school.

Would be better Google used words like painted or barrier-protected. I wonder if they did any user testing with bicyclists. What is the difference between “marked” and “separated”? Is one a subset of the other? I assume “shared” means it’s a sharrow in a car lane.

I was looking up a route to an appointment today when I noticed that Google maps now provides info about the kinds of bike lanes on your route. Not sure what their criteria is, but it’s an interesting way to note the failures of Chicago’s “bike grid”.

Hey Mayor, what if we had a sidewalk snow plow named Abolish ICE. #PlowTheSidewalks

Trump says he wants to keep housing prices high because “people who didn’t work hard shouldn’t get to buy a house”, while DHS says housing prices will drop if we report our “illegal” neighbors so they can be deported. Fucking fascist idiots. Get fucked.

I’m performing at a show tonight. The venue is 2.5 miles away. Car: 12mins @chicagocta.bsky.social: 32 mins Bike: 17 mins

My route home last night passed by the United Center and it must have been after a game. Total gridlock and chaos. What a great system.

Wake up babe, a new Bus Priority Corridor Survey from CDOT dropped. www.menti.com/algv7baftywz...

It's not kosher to eat avocados with avocado oil.

Chicago got 9 inches of snow yesterday. The city will plow the streets for drivers, but they delegate sidewalks to property owners. Compliance varies across n'hoods and leaves many people stranded in their houses. This ain't right. Tell the mayor and your alder to #PlowTheSidewalks

Every politician running for office needs to say “ICE as an organization needs to be abolished and dismantle, and when I’m elected, the folks who terrorized our cities will be prosecuted.” Not “trump’s ice”, not “defund ice”, not “more training”.

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Just get more people on bikes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This study compared mobility behavior with political participation, social participation in organizations, neighborhood solidarity, and neighborly helpfulness. Cycling was the only significant positive predictor for all four.

Before System of a Down was a metal band, they sold state-of-the-art down comforters.

Trump says to Norway as he invades Greenland, “look at what you made me do”.

We installed a bidet yesterday. Please clap.

Timeline cleanse

Was traveling for work this week, and I let my coworker talk me into sharing a cab back from the airport. Shitting myself in the back seat as this guy Mad-Maxed his way down the Kennedy. Maybe I should call Ald Gardiner’s office today to complain about safety on the highway.

Eight-and-a-half Inch Nails

We just took a walk around the neighborhood and cleared a few flooded storm drains. Dear reader, the satisfaction this brought me was like breathing through both nostrils after a long bout of illness and congestion.

Our streets will never be safe so long as these lawless thugs are allowed to continue invading our communities to kidnap and murder our neighbors. Abolish ICE.

Happy to live in a ward where street safety and transportation equity is a priority.

Chicago subreddits are total whiplash. One thread with folks arguing that we need absoultely need highway on the lake, and another asking if Chicago drivers are becoming even crazier.

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A new podiatrist opened near me. It’s called Trader Toes.

From a walk yesterday. #plowthewidewalks