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Patrick A
06-11-06, 12:44 PM
I definitely found this to be of interest:

CHICAGO'S MASTER PLAN
DON'T DRIVE. JUST BIKE.

City peddling new proposal for 500-mile network of paths to be finished by 2015

By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah and James Janega
Tribune staff reporters
Published June 11, 2006

Chicago is set to unveil new plans for becoming a bicyclist's haven. And this time, it means business.

The new Bike 2015 Plan wastes little time on breezy rides in the park. Instead, the city's Department of Transportation is bent on getting people to bike to work, to school, to stores and to mass transit stops, cobbling together a 500-mile network of designated routes.

Understanding that bicyclists' greatest enemies--aside from sloth--are car doors, right-lane passers and other street perils, planners looked around the world for new safety ideas.

See the rest of the article here:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0606110303jun11,1,5066691.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

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rs_woods
06-11-06, 02:05 PM
Nice, now if only I could get over the unbearable winters and 60mph winds.

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06-11-06, 02:23 PM
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