I am proud of Chicago and what it has done to improve living conditions and safer biking. I find it disappointing that McCarron is so small-minded that he objects to safer cycling in Chicago. It is money well spent.
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Making biking in city safer
... women make up only 23 percent of those who ride to work in US urban areas, according to the national Alliance for Biking and Walking. ...
City Attorney Aims to Make Biking Safer in SF
The city is now under a court injunction that freezes all bike related roadway modifications. The Superior Court issued the injunction because the plan ...
Biking and Mass Transit Increases Health Benefits and Saves Money
What about cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with biking? Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Maggie Grabow, a Ph.D. candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison's Nelson ...
CYCLING CENTRAL // Biking advocates pushing for a safer ride on Northeast corridor
Fawley and others also say that reducing the number of lanes from four to three in Central Avenue's business district could also help ease congestion and make biking less precarious. The road could be changed to include a turning lane and wider ...
Summit looks to improve biking in the city
By Geoff Ives More than 150 people offered ideas to improve cycling in Ottawa, from introducing bike licences to simply having more bike lanes, at a summit in St. Giles Presbyterian Church in the Glebe. Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar hosted the event and ...
How MY biking benefits YOU
Magazine, "How Biking Benefits Everyone", "Even if you will never ride a bike in your life, you still see benefits from increased levels of biking. More bicyclists mean less congestion in the streets and less need for expensive road projects that ...
Biking benefits add up in $$$
"Biking vacations are one of the most popular travel vacations and are emerging to one day be number one," said Sam Lankford, who worked on a study of the sport's impact. / Register file photo BY THE NUMBERS Wax poetic about fresh air, good times and ...
Biking Has Its (Tax) Benefits. Or Does It?
For instance, a commuter who rides a bike to a subway stop, locks up at one of the city's fancy new bike parking kiosks, gets on the train or a bus can only take a credit for the MetroCard or other approved mass transit - up to $120 - or take the more ...
Biking Makes Our Streets Safer
The report, the department's third annual Sustainable Streets Index, showed other biking trends pointed upward. Commuting by bike in New York City is up 262% in the past ten years, and bicyclists now make up a third of the evening rush hour traffic ...
Biking to work gets easier and safer
Cyclists hitting the road on Monday for Bike to Work Week will find their commutes safer, faster and more relaxing. So says the City of Vancouver, which has spent around $20 million on improvements to its 400 kilometres of bike routes over the past ...