When you encounter flooding in Chicago bike lanes, help the city track where this is happening. Bike lanes need to clear and safe no matter the weather! airtable.com/app2kZnzP9be...

Urban planners from around the world, “wait… you permitted a gas station next to a rapid transit train line station?”

If you're visiting Europe, put Utrecht on the list. It was beautiful, for exactly these reasons.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

🎉 Today is ADU Day in Chicago! 🏘️ The ADU pilot program is now permanent, expanding eligibility from 12% of the city to 60%, with the potential to reach 100%. More ADUs means more housing options, better affordability, and more Chicagoans able to stay in their communities.

We're on it! #cargobike

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Yes and then we can move to the neighborhood. I've met a few neighbors who want an e-bike but don't have a place to securely store it and bringing it up a flight or two of stairs just isn't feasible for them. Easy way to daylight side street intersections/ prevent illegal parking as well.

Another quick build/rapid deployment strategy: secure covered bike parking at transit centers. I'm not going to buy a $4k e-bike if I still have to use a U-lock on a curbside rack at the train station

Well this is harrowing and terrifying

Found a station with excess demand! Madison and Wells cc @davidpowe.bsky.social

Free parking has immense costs to society at large and is one of the worst possible urban policies

There is momentum in Chicago too! Slightly warmer weather today (& spring break ending for CPS), we counted at least 10 other families biking to nearby schools today, and that's just during our 11 minute commute snapshot on a narrow slice of Logan Square/Humboldt. Hopeful we'll approach tipping pt

Teen On Scooter Was Killed In 1 Of 83 Hit-And-Runs On South Shore's Main Roads This Year buff.ly/cONt6t8 In the past 5 years, 9,388 total reported crashes in South Shore. Nearly ***4,000*** hit and runs. buff.ly/h1RlL2t

Costco run for the month, but without the insane parking lot, paying for gas, and a tiny bit of exercise and fresh air on a beautiful day as a treat. ☺️

What North Avenue in Old Town looked like in 1916 and what we have now (North/Cleveland)

New Video: How Chicago Bikeshare Works & Grows! Chicagoans took a record 6.8 million trips on Divvy in 2025, and it's still growing! Watch our new video going behind-the-scenes on a new electric station going in, and talking to two of the leaders who make Divvy work and grow.

“Mr. Kidder was, […] writing about deep, even intimidating, goodness. “I’m drawn to that,” he said. “I don’t know why the world is such a miserable place.”” buff.ly/ReJsbtv If you haven’t read Mountains Beyond Mountains, let this be your nudge.

The world is big and wild.

This feels like a more interesting map than most Chicago election results… if near west side were more Kaegi and Brighton Park a little darker you almost have a letter S from Rogers park through Logan to the SW side

How Camden cut its murder rate to a 40 year low 

Gas prices are soaring, but people interested in biking don't know where to start. What type of bike do I get for kids? Cargo? Commuting? Today, we're launching a site for just that - Find The Right Bike! In just four questions, we'll tell you the bike you need and how much money it'll save you 🧵

What if we instead gave transit a ton of funding and made rebates for ebikes and electric cars, so folks could stop relying on gas 🤔 P.S. findtheright.bike

Now do CTA. Nora Leerhsen has not only proved she can do the job, she's made massive progress on rebuilding trust in the system, marked improvements and expansions to service, and has successfully guided the agency through political attacks from the federal government.

Have to wonder what Chicago would feel like if it followed the example of global leading cities.... cc @mayorofchicago.bsky.social

The stop super speeders bill has advanced out of committee 👏

What will Governor Pritzker's housing plan mean for existing two-flats? buff.ly/eyNdPRB A closer look at potential implications for Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Avondale etc.

Our tollway system is fundamentally backwards: we charge drivers extra to skirt around the city and in the suburbs where there is no feasible transit alternatives, while letting suburban motorists drive straight in and out of the heart of the city for free, actively competing with Metra and the 'L'.

This article has already gotten lit up all day for victim blaming scooter riders, but in particular I'm unhappy with how the interviews with family members get subsumed into that narrative. Their anger is clearly directed toward the driver who fled the scene, but that's not centered in the coverage.

"Polite transportation"!

Personally I have growing concerns about drivers who hit-and-run two teenagers, seems like a bigger issue than the scooters

Every year CPS spring break comes and morning traffic and by extension road rage drivers evaporate. The last three days have been so much more pleasant, fewer blocked bike lanes, lower road noise volume. A stunning change week to week.

Rat Birth Control Is Working In Wicker Park, Early Results Show blockclubchi.co/4t97C4n Confirm results and then scale, scale, scale. Let's go!

Big day for us at Bike Grid after months or working with our partners. I'm going to need you all file witness slips and get your friends and family to do the same. It shouldn't surprise you but I did write it. You can read it over at bikegridnow.org/in-the-news/

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)

Gas is up to almost $5 in parts of Chicago, and it's going to get worse. So now is a good time to start looking into a way of carrying people and things that's dramatically cheaper - a cargo ebike! My fuel cost for 2 years was around $6, with only $29 a month total running cost

Rest of the city soon please!

This is genuinely a troubling trend. I love the CTA, recognize that it’s safer than driving, and look forward to the NITE reforms. But advocates (including myself) can’t ignore this. We need to push for better security and stronger bans against repeat offenders.

Transit as a whole is safer than driving. That’s not up for debate, and always an important point of context when having conversations about safety and security. But normalized by passenger miles, the CTA is far outpacing peer systems. We need to be able to address whatever’s making us an outlier.

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

🚧 Work in progress 🚧 The Socrateslaan in Utrecht is undergoing a big metamorphosis: from grey, asphalted thoroughfare to a green, livable, and traffic-safe street, with wide sidewalks and two-way bicycle paths on both sides. Street by street, the city is becoming greener, safer, and more livable!

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It's only $5 a year if you're eligible for this program: divvybikes.com/pricing/d4e

Gas in Chicago is $4.18 a gallon (according to AAA). So, for a single 20 gallon tank of gas you can have access to thousands of bikes across hundreds of stations for an entire year. Seems like a pretty good deal to me!

It NYC can use big rocks for urbanism why can’t Chicago?

Great, so much vacant retail on this stretch for soooo long. All surrounding the blue line station, the square itself, new pedestrian plaza - should be bustling.

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Cycling side-by-side isn’t bad behaviour—it’s human behaviour. It’s how parents talk to their kids. How friends catch up. How communities form. If bicycle infrastructure is too narrow for people to ride and talk together, the problem isn’t the people. It’s the infrastructure. Nørrebro, Copenhagen.

😔 CDOT moved the bike rack request from a very easy interactive map to a much, much clunkier Microsoft Form... that doesn't show the location of existing or planned racks. Civic tech fail.

30 seconds of failed bus lane enforcement - Chicago style.