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So many signs that we really need a bike lane on Michigan Ave

A person rides a bike on the wide expanse of Michigan Ave alongside the Loop

Every dock is filled with Divvy bikes and scooters at station on Michigan Ave

Three people ride scooters and a bike on the sidewalk (technically illegal) next to Michigan Avenue

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Chicago looking like a real city

A Pace bus and people walking on the sidewalk in the foreground, a train passes by on the Wabash elevated line in the background.

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So far there’s only a new solid white line on Michigan Ave. No signage yet that I saw, nor red paint. I believe that all the crosswalks were repainted, though and that’s a nice bonus

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Michigan Ave dedicated northbound bus lane update! The city said on 9/30 that it would be installed in 7-10 days, today is 10/7, what’ve we got so far?

A bus travels on Michigan Ave in the future bus-only lane. Cars are in the other two northbound lanes. Michigan Ave buildings are in the background.

The intersection of Washington and Michigan from above, with people walking on a bright white crosswalk and a bus waiting to turn onto Michigan Ave.

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A packed room of 50 people at a community board meeting looks like massive civic engagement, until you remember 100,000+ people live in the district. That’s a 0.05% turnout.

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Is The CTA Having A Good Day? @isctaokay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🤬CTA Rail is having a terrible day. 76% of scheduled trains operated on Oct 5th as of 6pm. 45% arrived at their scheduled intervals. Schedules are increased 0% from pre-pandemic schedules.

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 22 Clark St bus serves 7,000 riders northbound each day, it’s supposed to run every 7 minutes but there’s currently a 45-minute gap! 😡 🤬 Needless to say that increasing frequency and reliability was my #1 ranked choice on that NITA survey

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This survey is pretty thorough, so pour yourself a beverage and get started! (ICYMI: NITA is the new agency that oversees CTA, Metra, and Pace)

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Alex Black @imalexblack.dev · 05/10/2026

Hey Mayor Johnson, instead of tapping influencers to please voters, may I suggest you TRY DOING BOLD THINGS AS THE CURRENT MAYOR to please voters?

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The crazy thing about downtown Chicago is there is a whole system of arterial roads and parking lots below street level, AND cars still dominate above ground. Like, can people have at least one of the levels?

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Yes, that one’s also awful!

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How the crosswalk leads you into a car travel lane is crazy

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Beautiful Belt of Venus pastel colors in the eastern sky right now at sunset

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Seriously, the city budget only allows for a single shared curb cut here?!? Where thousands of people cross every day? It’s infuriating

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Don’t get me started on Galena, what the tourist photos show vs. what the car-choked reality is 🤮

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Michigan Ave at Wacker, ridiculous imbalance between amount of space for cars v. for masses of people walking, and then the crosswalk stripes don’t even match up with the sidewalk?

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This was at Lake/Homan, on the edge of Garfield Park 😢💔 Heartbreaking

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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 03/10/2026

We love seeing new protected bike lanes! Go bike to all the great restaurants on Bryn Mawr and tell them you appreciate the new infrastructure!

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not sure I agree that the L train overhead is a soft rumble, but everything else ❤️

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

doesn't improve with teens and tweens

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t remember Division Street bars from the 1980s being politically outspoken but here we are and I love to see it

Butch McGuire’s bar canopies have pro-voting banners on them saying things like “Someone struggled for your right to vote, use it” (Susan B Anthony)

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Moth are cockroaches with wings

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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/ I think it will be a de facto Bus/Bike lane, whether it’s marked as such or not and 2/ the sidewalk here is very w-i-d-e and since bike cops regularly ride on it, I’m doubtful any of them will issue a ticket for you doing the same

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When a dedicated bus lane on Michigan Ave is installed, what will happen to our beloved 30-inch wide, unprotected, one-block long bike lane just south of Randolph? /s

30-inch wide, unprotected, one-block long bike lane just south of Randolph

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Roosevelt to Wacker is a good start but a dedicated bus lane on Michigan is most needed from the river to Oak St But given that Michigan Ave is an IDOT jurisdiction street, YAY 🎉

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Per the article: “The surcharge would be 25 to 50 cents an hour, according to Burnett. … The system would use license plate data to determine who pays what rate …  ‘It’s easy to track, they already have the data now,’ Burnett said.”

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I thought I was a red-pilled urbanist in European cities being impressed by their transit systems, but being wowed by public toilets in China earlier this year was an entirely new level lol

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Say what you want about China, but every city I was in had a (free, clean and safe) public restroom facility nearby pretty much wherever I went, it was beyond impressive

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