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"Aldermen: Halt all work on the DuSable Lake Shore Drive project".
Yea, you read that right. We want mass transit on our lakefront and will fight for it.
14 Alderpeople and various community orgs have signed onto our letter. Read it here:
Chicago, Bike Grid Now!
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Chicago, Bike Grid Now!
@bikegridnow
We're demanding a city-wide #bikegridnow with slow & safe neighborhood streets across Chicago.
Donate to the cause: gofund.me/1db5c2e2
- We are not an inconvenience. We're living breathing people and we deserve to live. We demand safer streets. We demand a #bikegridnow.
- Chicago, we deserve better than the scraps of safe streets infra that @ChicagosMayor, @ChicagoDOT, and alderpeople give us. We deserve a safer and more equitable way to get around our city. We deserve a Bike Grid and we will keep jamming till that happens. #bikegridnow
00:00 - During our jam yesterday, we held a "Just a Minute" protest for an @amazon driver in the bike lane. While some motorists became frustrated that their lane of travel was blocked, others applauded us. Imagine how those angry motorists would feel if they were cyclists in Chicago.
00:00 - While two cops watch from across the intersection, private citizens are protecting vulnerable road users trying to cross the highway where a cyclist was killed just months ago. Thank you @Segway_Ruins for organizing #chiredlightaction. @CPD_Media @ChicagoDOT you're failing.
00:00 - This is the state of affairs of transportation in #chicago. Activists are protecting pedestrians and cyclists from being hit and killed by drivers who want to speed through Chicago's NASCAR track. @ChicagosMayor, we don't need more races. We need leadership. #chiredlightaction
- The folks who took over DuSable Lake Shore Drive THREE times and gave it back to the people.
- Do you love the protected bike lane on Augusta? There is pressure against it. Email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] It's ridiculous that we need to do this as the city faces more traffic fatalities...alas Example email 🧵
- For this who grew up in suburbs, we were forced to believe the ability to drive was our biggest freedom in life. Only later to realize that the truest freedom is $0 in car payments, $0 in car insurance, $0 in gas, $0 in parking and riding through the wind.
- The current "system" doesn't work, we need a municipal service to #PlowTheSidewalks
- Did you know, in Chicago, 55% of drivers who get a speed camera warning (no fine the first time) never actually get a fine. And 46% drivers who get one fine, don't get fined again. Talk about a powerful deterrent to breaking the law and protecting vulnerable road users.
