Chicago is spending over $17 million to add miles of new bike lanes — all in hopes of curbing segregation and boosting racial equity
Chicago is spending over $17 million to add miles of new bike lanes — all in hopes of curbing segregation and boosting racial equity
New initiatives to drastically expand bike lane infrastructure are underway to make cycling safer and more equitable along Chicago's Hipster Highway.
There obviously more work to be done and I love that Chicago is so far ahead of so many cities when it comes to bicycle infrastructure.
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Is this the same Chicago that sold all their parking meters to Wall Street making infrastructure changes really difficult because it would cut into parking meter profits?
Yeah and I kind of love it anyway. Since the sale, meter pricing has sky rocketed which discourages driving. Fuck cars!!
Discouraging driving is good but when a city can't close or repurpose roads because of a parking meter contract, it kind of sucks.
I was thinking that might be a thing. Actually kind of poetic. Love it.
That's probably why it's so expensive. I guess it's good to know that the loss of revenue is already baked into the cost of the project.