New from us! Mayor Brandon Johnson endorsed us in 2023, now he is against our safety. The City of Chicago opposes HB2454, a bill that would make bicyclists intended users of all roads only on a disconnected network of streets rather than all streets.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/06/o...
New from us! Mayor Brandon Johnson endorsed us in 2023, now he is against our safety. The City of Chicago opposes HB2454, a bill that would make bicyclists intended users of all roads only on a disconnected network of streets rather than all streets.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/06/o...
We're honored to be the only sticker on his bike
Mike Simmons has a sticker of ours from 2023 so you know he's a real one
Join Chicago Family Biking & Sam Balto for a bike bus training! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📍 Butcher's Tap (3533 N Southport)
⏰ March 12th, 6-8p
🚨 Tell the Chicago Meetropolitan Agency For Planning to STOP the DLSD highway expansion project!
Send an email or sign up to make public comment at the CMAP board meeting tomorrow. Via @betterstreetschicago.org
secure.everyaction.com/-B7h3GjiAEiA...
We put slips w/links on our IG stories
Mockup of a yard sign that says "We support Portage Park Safe Streets, Slow Down" above five mid-size colonial houses sketched in white followed by an instagrma handle, @portageparksafestreets"
Read about the project here: www.chicago.gov/city/en/site...
If you'd like a Portage Park Safe Streets yard sign, fill out this form courtesy of our friends at @atalliance.bsky.social, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Take CDOT's survey: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
An event flyer with a semi-abstract blue, white, and black background advertising a bike ride to 4150 N Long Ave for a Portage Park safe streets meeting hosted by the Chicago Department of Transportation.
Ride with us to CDOT's Portage Park in support of the new neighborhood network. We're taking off at 5:30 sharp from the Logan Square Monument to the PP Senior Center OR meet up with our friends at Cosmic Bikes for a quick jaunt over at 5:50.
⏰ Wedenesday 3/5 @ 5:30p
📍 Logan Square Monument
More reposts than slips filed 😕
And finally, please email your legislators about supporting Bike Grid Now's agenda this session. (8/8)
bsky.app/profile/bike...
OPPONENT! HB4588 would reintroduce minimum parking mandates on non-Chicago transit stations that were removed under the People over Parking Act (included in SB2111) (7/8)
ilga.gov/House/Hearin...
SB3336 Adds a contingency that to ride on a Class 3 e-bikes as a passenger under 18 years old, the operator must be at least 18 years of age (rather than 16 years of age). (6/8)
ilga.gov/Senate/heari...
HB4333 lowers the BAC threshold for DUI from .08% to .05% (NHTSA recommendation). This week we are being outslipped by a coalition of bars, lets get ahead of them! (5/8)
ilga.gov/House/Hearin...
HB4281 lowers the population threshold for installing automated speed enforcement cameras from cities with 1,000,000+ to 25,000+ in counties that have over 3,000,000 residents (applies to Cook only) (4/8)
ilga.gov/House/Hearin...
HB2934 lowers the maximum urban speed limit from 30 to 20 on roadways and from 15 to 10 in alleyways. Please file as a proponent of the original bill and HCA1. (3/8)
ilga.gov/House/Hearin...
HB2454 makes bicycles intended users (rather than permitted) of a roadway, excluding interstates or controlled access highways. This allows bikers to hold the city accountable for hazards on all roads, not only bikeways. (2/8)
ilga.gov/House/Hearin...
New week, new (and repeat) bills to slip for.
By 4pm, Tuesday 2/24 at 3:30pm:
- Please sign as "Self" in the firms/business field;
- "Proponent; (unless noted)" and
- "Record of Appearance only"
See below on how to file a wtiness slips. Bills and links follow in this thread. (1/8)
Action Alert 🚨 Email your State Reps. to let them know what bills you want to them to support and oppose this legislative session! With City Council lagging in creating safe streets, this is the best way to improve conditions for Chicagoans and all Illinoisans.
actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Here's a quick tutorial on how to file a witness slip bsky.app/profile/bike...
You've got until TODAY (what was Wednesday is now Tuesday) at 4pm to get that slip in.
Now let's go and slip your witness (h/t @sidestreets.bsky.social for making the walkthrough) bsky.app/profile/bike...
We've got a how-to on filing witness slips this session. Use our video to learn how to file a witness slip to support safe streets legislation and to oppose the kind that makes us less safe.
gotta slip ‘em all!
Original. A copy of HCA1 is not available yet.
this is important, please sign this
Lily was designated as an Intended User of the road, perhaps the first fatality recorded as such.
we really need cyclists to be elevated to intended user of the road and neuter that disastrous Baub vs County of Wayne decision
That is this bill. It was filed in February 2025 but the session has not turned over so the bill is still eligible to be passed without needing to be refiled. legiscan.com/IL/bill/HB24...
Lastly, HB4333 lowers the BAC threshold for DUI from .08% to .05% (NHTSA recommendation)
ilga.gov/House/hearin...
Pro tip! Make an ILGA account to save your witness slip information for the future to make easy slippin'
5/5
HB4281 lowers population threshold for installing automated speed enforcement cameras from cities with 1,000,000+ to 25,000+ in counties that have over 3,000,000 residents (Cook only)
ilga.gov/House/hearin...
4/5
