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Tagged bicycling

Mar 24 2011

Bicycling groups want state to track accidents involving car doors

Via The Chicago Tribune’s Jon Hilkevitch: While not opposed to collecting data on the number accidents involving bicycles and vehicles that aren’t moving, Illinois Department of Transportation Officials haven’t received many requests to do so, according to a spokesman. Kim Nishimoto, whose son was killed in a dooring accident, said she thinks IDOT’s position that [...]

Mar 1 2011

Chicago bicycle study will guide future planning

North Milwaukee Avenue

A study of bicyclists and their travel patterns throughout Chicago found the city’s bicycling hot spot — at least in 2009. It’s 640 North Milwaukee Ave., where more than 3,000 bicyclists recorded at during the summer and fall of 2009 as part of the of Chicago Department of Transportation’s first-ever bike-count study, the results of [...]