The Chicago Department of Transportation (“CDOT”) commitment to making the city more bicycle friendly and make bike transportation more accessible, is coming to fruition with a new northside bike path. According to Blockclub Chicago, the city is compleing a 2.5-mile bike route connecting the North Shore Channel Trail and Chicago’s lakefront trail. The path will lead to Winnemac Park, Andersonville’s Clark Street and the Asia on Argyle corridor.
CDOT told Blockclub that the only remaining stretch of the path that needs to be completed is of a 1 mile stretch between Damen Broadway through Ravenswood and Uptown. An exact timeline has not been announced, but it is expected to be finished before the end of the year.
The project is called “Winnemac Avenue Neighborhood Greenway.” Neighborhood greenways are bike routes on residential streets that include larger bike lanes (typically on oneway streets) and provide safer and calmer routes than biking on busy streets. You can view a map of the Winnemake greenway by clicking here.
A similar neighborhood greenway was constructed on Dickens street, that stretches from the 606 trail on the west side all the way to the Lincoln Park Zoo and the lake front. Dickens is a a west direction oneway street, but now contains a large bike lane that allows bicyclists to ride in both directions.
I continue to applaud these efforts by the city to improve bicycle accessiblity, especially allowing for paths throughout the city that are calmer and more kid friendly. This is not only safer for bicyclists, but will hopefully lead to less congested roads.
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