NWChiFiets

@nwchifiets.bsky.social

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Salty AF. Safe streets & sound climate policy = social justice. Enjoy biking, travel, beer and cats. Content likely to randomly touch on all of the above. All content is my personal opinion. She/Her.

An image of an ambulance with damaged front grill, people standing nearby, and a police cruiser, with small businesses in the background
Car with a bike rack is parked across a sidewalk and the bike lane.
Chixago mayors office post on facebook has a photo of the mayors on a bike and reads Mayor Jobnson and Lyft install new Divvy stations
Twi bike racks in a parking garage are almost full of bikes and scooters
t-shirt with image of a person wearing headphones and text "reckless pedestrian"
Cover of the book There Are No Accidents
A photo shows the side of an expressway with exposed soil where c3ment separated and came off.
A dock of Divvy bikes includes a black Divvy bike.
Facebook poster says the drive through is the best part of a proposed custard stand. In response to being informed that drive throughs cause congestion, increase air pollution and make it more dangerous for pedestrians, they say "then don't drive ever?"
A Facebook post from the Harwood Heights police department says there is a Flock camera at Harlem and Gunnison and invites an "honest conversation" about what people think Flock cameras do and what data they collect.
An orange safety cone on a sidewalk has a bouquet in the top. A wide street with cars is in the background.
A bouquet of flowers tops a white flexpost. In the background is a six corner intersection wit traffic going through it.
A black bike rack has several stickers in it that have been painted over with black paint. A bike rests against the bike rack.
A bike rack in an office parking garage is mostly full, with only one or two spaces open.
an urn full of liquid has a sign "free pickle juice shors"
Child sized car is "parked" by a garage
Male poster says all he hears are accusations of rape and any crime should be proven in a court of law, not public opinion, to be taken seriously.
A 6 foot plus tall man stands next to a black pickup truck. The top of the bed is almost as high as his shoulders. The hood is higher than his shoulders.
A peaceful neighborhood street scene with a silver SUV parked with the rear bumper up against the garage and rhe body of the car fully and completely blocking the sidewalk.
old style looking sign reads "shut the fuck up about Chicago"
A stop sign has been adorned so that it now reads "stop trump"
Waymo on a street
A survey questions asks respondents to rank items by assigning a value of 0-100, with all responses totalling 100.
Nagle is scheduled to be closed to traffic at the railroad tracks between Northwest Highway and Avondale starting July 6 for three weeks. Foster already is expected to be closed over the Kennedy to at least the end of this year due to bridge work, worsening congestion on Bryn Mawr. Outbound Kennedy entrance ramp at Foster is scheduled to be closed until Aug. 12. Also, the Austin Avenue pedestrian bridge over the Kennedy will be closed later this summer for repairs.
A blue Divvy shyly hides behind a garbage can on the OHare Blue Line platform
Milwaukee Avenue redesign ribbon cutting taking place Monday, June 22 at 9am, 3150 N. Logan at the "promenade."
Nadig Newspapers Facebook post says CDOT, Ald. Gardiner and Ald. Nugent are doing a traffic study to examine if the Edgebrook Metra gates and the motor vehicle traffic impact can be improved.
People's Gas van is illegally parked in a clearly marked bike lane.
Moving van and ramp are illegally in the bike lane
Lame canned response from the governor's office that says nothing other than general platitudes of concern for Illinois residents.
Response from Forest Preserves says they have to test the water as it is well water, and test results take a week.
An image of the All Powerful Bicycle Lobby symbol
A small racoon peer out from the back of a tree with green leaves all around.
Map showing location near Montrose, next stop is Jefferson Park.
Nadig Newspapers reports that an "accident" was reported yesterday evening near Milwaukee and Mason Avenues. Drivers were taken to a hospital, but no further details are available. A photo shows a bumper lying on the ground next to a black SUV with a crushed in driver's side.
truck illegally blocking bike lane
Flex posts in the middle of the lanes all have flowers in the top of them!
BlueSky user says "I'm a bit salty after a cyclist mounted the pavement to go around traffic lights causing me to have to jump out of the way. This was aggressive towards me for being on the pavement. It's not the mode of transportation that is the issue, it's the person."
Truck driver is illegally parked in a marked bike lane and facing the wrong direction on the street
Black bike is secured to a line green bike rack in a Metra train car
Two bikes in the space outside the bathroom on the passenger car.
A bioswale filled with native plants
Hand wearing a bike glove displays a large piece of glass.
A driver has illegally parked her car in the bright green marked bike lane, even though there is a ton of illegal space next to the urb (she obviously isn't bothered by parking illegally).
An adorable calico with a pink nose, mostly white face with some brown over her left eye and black patches at the top of her head.
A white van is illegally parked in a marked bike lane with backup lights on. Traffic in the traffic lane to the left of the van leaves no room for a bicyclist to safely go around the van.
Comment on post reads: Why do you allow women with kids strapped onto their backs panhandling or selling between cars during traffic? That's child endangerment along with them having other children unattended on the sidewalk running into traffic also they don't keep an eye on them while walking between cars. I've seen kids run to the mom and almost get hit with a car, a biker or an e scooter.
View of a residential street with bountiful street parking. And yet, in a driveway on the left, one car is parked fully within the driveway and a second car is in the driveway section between the sidewalk and the street, blocking about half if the sidewalk with the vehicle's front end.
A total of 11 lanes on a freeway are visible, with only 2 cars in the foreground and a 3rd in the distance.
A brick pillar has a sign on it that reads "To the northbis second ward, also known as Brooklyn. Charlotte's leading African American business and residential district in the early 20th Century. Largely demolished by "urban renewal" in the 1960s.
A wedding party's trolley is parked in and fully blocking the Little Dugar Creek Greenway on a stretch that has a two way bike lane on the street, protected by flexposts. The trolley takes the width of the bike lane. Self centered, entitled people from the trolley are in the bike lane and on the sidewalk, walking to the trolley.
Small burgundy flowers among pale green stems
A light post has a sticker on bit that reads "fascist" below a stylized image of the president and the U.S flag.
Rear view of the CTA bus that passed me with maximum 2 feet of clearance. (photo is about 1/4 mile after it passed me)
A bunch of orange cones block the bike lane and no detour is indicated. In fact, there is no good space to exit the bike lane here due to the parked cars visible on the left.
Website where the racist Indycars shirt was found now reads 404 Page not foubd
Facebook post reads: I saw two fascinating things in Marin in a span of three minutes. I saw two bicyclists use hand turn signals and an ebike stop at a stop sign. IYKYK
Paul Janeway of St. Paul and the Broken Bones is wearing a gold sequined robe, standing on a ladder in the middle of the crowd, singing.