This is a great article and one that folks should take to heart. Maybe your Bike to Work Event gives away ponchos, or baby wipe packs. Maybe you get work to allow business casual on non-external meeting days.

To all of your who are participating in Bike to Work Week (there seem to be a lot of you!) and you don't normally ride your bike to work -- why not?

Let’s Put a Lid on Litter, Illinois! Last year, IDOT spent $33.2 million to keep our roads clean, that's enough to buy 100 snowplows or resurface 26 miles of highway. Litter and graffiti aren’t just an eyesore; it clogs drains, damages landscaping, and puts public safety at risk.

BREAKING: Local Woman Walks To Grocery Store; Car Brained Onlookers Stunned

star trek is a great example of something that benefits from "filler" because ultimately the idea is for you to care about this ship and their crew as they're flung into troublesome situations - and you need time to develop that connection if you've got a ragtag band I want to get to know them

The gutter isn't counted towards the width of car lanes so why is it counted for bike lanes?

Skokie has long been supportive of transit infill and expansion, with lots of sites that greatly support further transit oriented development.

If this does get done, we need to add infill stations at Asbury and Crawford, and completely rebuild Dempster-Skokie to take 4 car trains.

No neighborhood is “full”

This is the best thing

"But others have been unimpressed by the lack of car lanes" Spare me this bullshit. The world has been awash with dominating car culture for a century, and now that we're working to correct that mistake, we still do this "both sides" journalism about it. Give me a break already.

Our annual Ride of Silence is an important and powerful event we need you to attend: a one hour slow roll silent procession in memory of those killed or injured on our streets. Meet us outside Wheel & Sprocket (1027 Davis St) at 7PM on Wednesday, May 20th.

Nice. Metra express train in had a bike car.

From the new website Find The Right Bike: Investing a few thousand dollars in a cargo bike to haul kids and gear may seem expensive. But it's a fraction of the cost of doing those tasks by car. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/t... @chiwho.bike @viktorkoves.com @atalliance.bsky.social

Lyft operates bike share in many U.S. cities, including NYC, where this was taken, and is trying to take over the bike share contract in LA. This ad undermine those goals and they should be called out on it. I don't condone bus shelter vandalism but if these appear anywhere in LA... just saying...

🚨🚨🚨 Bicycle advocacy job in Buffalo, NY. AMA about #Buffalo!

Still probably better numbers than humans on that metric.

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

May we all have the confidence to call out motonormativity, wherever we find it

Hi friends! Has anyone seen or done an updated inventory on city v. suburbs and racial (under) representation on MPOs since the Sanchez @brookings.edu 2004 study (visuals below)? I found interesting Boston & TX case studies by following the citations, but not a national picture.

🏳️‍⚧️ Wondering where we'll be this Pride season? 🏳️‍⚧️ As we grow closer to June, keep an eye out for volunteer opportunities, non-festival Pride events, and more! We can't wait to see you all face-to-face this summer! 🔗https://www.transupfrontil.com/findus

If @govpritzker.illinois.gov wanted to get real cute with kowtowing to rural interests he should rebrand BUILD as a “farmland preservation act”, forcing municipalities statewide to focus on more sustainable, compact development rather than an endless sprawl machine.

This happened thanks to Attorney General Rob Bonta finally saying "enough is enough" with retailers selling illegal e-motos at odds with the California Vehicle Code.

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

We should probably start thinking about regulating cars in cities with the same energy some people want to ban Ebikes.

calvinball-ass "we have the votes and you don't" court wiping their asses with the very idea of rule of law none of these people should ever be allowed to decide what's for lunch again, let alone the law of the nation

So fun fact, the Clark concrete protection is not in fact bolted in. And I know this because some were out in the lane a bit so I did what any reasonable person would do and kneeled in the lane and pushed them back 😂

If I'm gonna ignore the humor in this, I have to point out that it's extremely common for this "driver accidentally hits gas instead brake" excuse, and if it were any other form of transportation, governments would be intervening on this deadly design issue.

It’s a celebration here at the groundbreaking for Mt Pisagh Apartments in Evanston! 33 new homes, fully affordable for those making up to 60% of area median income.

It's time to submit your proposal for a session or mobile workshop at the APA-IL's 2026 State Conference #APAIL26. We are looking forward to being back at the Hilton Orrington/Evanston in beautiful Evanston, IL! Proposal deadline: 6/1/26 ilapa.org/aws/APAIL/pt...

Would be lovely to see the infrastructure to support this throughout Chicagoland.

New cargo bike rental service in Boulder, Colorado!

Irony of these figures is that town centers of small and mid-sized towns in countries like the Netherlands, France, and Germany are wildly more vibrant & retail-packed than those of most US cities. Difference at play is that US & Canada have far more huge big boxes & fewer small-scale retailers.

Suspending an 18.4¢ tax because gas is up 39¢ in a month while blowing a hole in the primary funding mechanism for our national roads and highways, the Party of Fiscal Responsibility strikes again

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Like Ald. Vasquez (at an e-bike test ride event) was, are you interested in starting to commute by bicycle, but unsure which would be the correct cycle for your needs? We know a guy. Check out our interview with Viktor Köves from Find The Right Bike. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/t... @chiwho.bike

Looking forward to this one! Taking the kids to school on their bikes was what changed everything for me.

the iran war is a really fascinating lesson in global supply chains did you know a key component of (insert thing here) travels through the strait of hormuz? now you do!

I used to commute on a bike path that ran next to a freeway, and sometimes I'd be riding faster than the cars on the highway were moving in traffic. Truly a feeling of great power.

John Brown wanted to spark a revolt of the enslaved. Lee helped the enslavers revolt.

Did that this weekend. Walked over to the gas station, filled the gas can for the mower, realized there was a hole in the gas can(!!!), walked across the street to the hardware store, bought a new can, and poured the old can's contents into the new can. Walked home.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

-maintain a regular drawing schedule* -post frequently** -show BTS footage of your process and current projects*** *300 pieces in a row in the span of a month, followed by *crickets* **Posting like a feral cat, I come and go as I please. ***As per NDA, the studio is allowed to have my head.

Perfection. Fuckin biopics

Active mobility deserves comparable space. This design succeeds through three elements: ✅ Separation: A continuous green buffer protects users and enhance comfort. ✅ Width: Safely accommodates passing and riding together. ✅ Color: Red pavement clearly defines the dedicated mobility space.

Up Periscope. Chicago in the fog on this day ten years ago. This image was used for the album cover of the Umphrey's McGee release, "Asking for a Friend".

As a queer who grew up after the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, this book is both heartbreaking and empowering. Stories of people who were born decades before me, looked at the world they were born into and its injustice and said "this shall not stand," but are also the small subset of survivors.

So glad my town at least annually brings back our four block pedestrian plaza for half the year, unlike a lot of places that abandoned theirs completely after COVID. More plazas are really needed.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com