6.24.26 union rat's log this morning, the reader union returns to the table with noisy creek management. noisy creek's recent counterproposals suggest many policies & benefits worse than our current contract. but we know our worth, & we won't accept unnecessary concessions. ttyl, union rat <3

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This Saturday Chicago, IL. 🧍 9:45AM 🚲 10:00AM 📍5120 N Broadway 🏁 9401 S Ewing COME BIKE TO THE BUILDINGS

Support new bike rides to baseball games! Tuesday, June 16th from Logan Square to the Rockies game at Wrigley Field. This one's for everyone who's asked when there's going to be a north side Bike Sox. Cubs Sox? Bike Cubs?

I’ll be riding out to from Daley Plaza to Palmisano Park at 6pm tomorrow and would love some company. Come Jam for Riley with me.

Please, join us in community as we celebrate the life of Riley O'Neil and Jam in his honor. 📍 Palmisano Park (Fitness Course) - 41.84177, -87.64905 ⏰ Monday, June 8th, 7p Start, 6:30p Meetup

CDOT lost the best of our team yesterday. We're heartbroken. In memory of Riley O'Neil, please refer to these bike racks as "Riley Racks". He led Chicago's bike parking program for several years. Our hearts are broken, but we want to make sure his legacy lives on 💙🚲 Please spread the word

I would like Bike Sox to be at least one (1) visiting international soccer fan’s first tailgate. If you know people coming through Chicago for the World Cup please help make this happen

@leighgiangreco.bsky.social curious if there’s some inside baseball reason why this would end up in crains?

We want contraflow on Wellington! Please email [email protected] and call the office of Bennett Lawson at 773-525-6034 to voice your concerns about the lack of safety here.

After some backlash, the plan for the Wellington Greenway has been modified in a way that will increase the danger for west-bound cyclists. Oakdale & Halsted is an unsignaled intersection with an awkward geometry. I can guarantee that drivers on Halsted will not stop for you. #bikechi 🧵

Our @chicagobikesox.com leader @streicher.io caught a foul ball at tonight’s game ⚾️‼️

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We're two weeks away from more Bike Sox 〚Add to Calendar〛

We stopped taking our bike bus through Halsted/Oakdale because of how dangerous and unsafe drivers behaved at this unsignaled intersection. This is a shameful capitulation by our Department of Transportation and failure of their duty to protect cyclists.

Exactly as expected, sales data improved and it became a safer route overall.

Glad CDOT finished this research: Economic impact of Milwaukee Bike Lane : api.chicago.gov/filenet5/ser...

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A reroute only a personal injury attorney could love. Conflict points have been moved from signalized to crash heavy non-signalized intersections and the westbound route from the lake now passes the spot I got doored with no mitigations. Good thing our alders delayed the greenway 9 months for this!

Our first Archer Ave. ride of the spring was a blast 💚🩵 If you missed our ride yesterday, we’ll be back at McKinley Park next Saturday, May 9 at 9:30am. And you won’t even need a bike to join us since @divvybikes.bsky.social will be there with free rentals for riders age 18 or older.

No better evidence for induced demand than spending billions of dollars and destroying the urban fabric to build diagonal expressways like the Kennedy and the Stevenson to “relieve” the diagonal arterials, and yet we’re still unable to squeeze a bike lane onto said arterials because of “traffic”.

Don't worry, buddy. You don't have to know what's in the law. The Pretrial Fairness Act is whatever you think it is.

🖤🤍 See you on May 26th!

Wellington Greenway dead?

How about we let the Bears go to Indiana and then institute a brand tax on “Chicago” teams that play their home games elsewhere?

Pedal for the Planet 2026 is ON! On Saturday, April 25th, join @ctulocal1.bsky.social's Climate Justice Committee and BGN to close out Earth Week in motion. 🚲 Bikes will roll out from Lakeview, Hyde Park, and Wicker Park, all meeting at Douglass Park for birding, trash pickup, and a picnic. 🌱

We’re back on Tuesday, April 28th. Full schedule at chicagobikesox.com 🔊

Toronto can’t hang 🧹

no non-physical experience feels more like a fiberglass sliver in my eyelid than "a lot of people are mad at the same thing I'm mad at, but for the wrong goddamn reasons"

Schedule drops online and at the racks on Tuesday, April 15th at 5:30 (sharp)

Hello from Springfield!

🚨Baseball is back, baby!!!🚨 baltimorebikebirds.com

Mask off moment here from likely candidate for Chicago Mayor

HUGE NEWS. We have a state bill; SB3478 - SCA1. Under the bill, CMAP will develop a blueprint for a bike and pedestrian-prioritized street network including 450 miles of safe, slow streets in Chicago and surrounding communities. WE NEED YOU TO SUBMIT WITNESS SLIPS. ilga.gov/Senate/heari... (1/3)

There’s no reason the CTA should be 4x safer than driving, it should be much safer than that

As a safe streets advocate, I have fought hard for change to our streets for our kids & now I know the feeling of panic & seeing your child get hit by a car right in front of you. I do not wish it on anyone. If you live in Chicago, please sign the petition below to show the urgency to fix Inner LSD!

My 8yo got hit by a car today. Luckily, the driver braked in time to not leave a mark. Off the same street 3 ppl were recently hit-1 fatal&1 critical. The same one CDOT last week suggested adding a painted median & signs in response to those crashes. The same one I told them would have another crash

It's a setback to progressive reform on tax assessments. Hynes was backed by all the big real estate interests and the places that make money on property tax appeals. He used to work for Berrios, the longtime super sketchy assessor.

I've seen enough. Drake Warren will be the Cook County Commissioner of District 10!

A lot of you seem to be focused on topics other than the impressive number of different temperatures it was outside while I was riding my bicycle

It is a choice to do this on Election Day and a choice to do it during a record cold snap. It is also a choice to do it at all.

And that’s a wrap on winter: 32/32° biked in, including 3 bonus degrees. Have a great offseason!

32° of winter biking #29: 15° a real election in lakeview

You still have time to vote against Paul Kendrick (D-Meta) and friends if you’d like to see less, not more, of this type of thing

Cannot emphasize enough: if you don't want the crypto/techpawn Senator, you should vote for LG Stratton There are several other reasons for a progressive to favor her over Kelly. And a point or two Kelly has in her favor. But at this pt it's most important to guard against a downgrade from Durbin

The way this would be SO different if I won.

This is somehow worse than the list of people endorsing Brendan Reilly, at least all those people are out as MAGA supporters.