Bicycle advocate and attorney representing bike crash victims at Freeman Kevenides Law Firm. www.fklawillinois.com Advocacy Committee Chair and Board of Directors for Ride Illinois, Board of Advisors for Active Transportation Alliance.
Brendan Kevenides
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"As of 6/15/26 bicycles, e-bikes, scooters, e-scooters, & similar modes of transportation that are not authorized for use on public roadways will no longer be permitted to enter the U.S. through vehicle inspection lanes." Interesting, not sure how they will determine legality at the port of entry...
Drivers are a menace says study reported on by those far left, tree hugging lunatics at... Forbes.
This tragic death holds a message to all policy makers who are willing to hear it: No more half measures. Our streets must be made safe for everyone. Hard protected bike lanes on every single street, and traffic laws that put bicyclists and pedestrians first!
More than a year ago Ride Illinois started to understand & strategize on differentiating between legal classes of ebikes and epowered devices that are definitely not ebikes. That hard work put in by Ride Illinois and our legislative allies has paid off! Gov. Pritzer is expected to sign the bill.
Paris can do this but Chicago can't?
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
So let's address it. Removing auto parking and even closing streets for cars and making them more more bicycle and pedestrian friendly will likely increase accessibility to small businesses. This isn't new: www.peopleforbikes.org/news/benefit....
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
www.theguardian.com
New research examines Waymo's California robotaxi trips btw Aug 2023 and Dec 2025.
Conclusion: 46% of miles driven involved no one inside the car.
That's 40 million miles of deadheading, with Waymo vehicles using road space w/o transporting a human.
doi.org/10.32866/001...
Drivers can't kill us all 🚲✊
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The bike ride and “die-in” in memory of fallen Complete Streets Planner Riley O’Neil was a life-affirming event. "No more people should die in the streets because their lives are not valued as much as driver convenience," said one organizer.
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Riley was doored in a non-protected bike lane. "No more people should die in the streets because their lives are not valued as much as driver convenience," said one organizer.
Picture a community where kids can ride safely to school, employees have a stress-free commute, and families can explore their neighborhood by bike on sunny weekends. Across the U.S., communities are ...
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com
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Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
Letter to the Editor: The concerns of small businesses regarding parking must be adequately addressed in their favor before any consideration is given to drivers and bikers.
SB 3336 – a bill sponsored by State Senator Ram Villivalam, Representative Barbara Hernandez, Illinois Secretary of State – and championed by @rideillinois.bsky.social – is now headed to Governor Pritzker’s desk 🙌
* Due to a procedural matter, SB 3484 was used to cast the final vote in the House
Paris air pollution is down 50% after its radical bike-friendly transformation
Cars have been banned from more than 100 streets. Tens of thousands of parking spots have been eliminated. Hundreds of miles of bike lanes have been added. And air pollution is plummeting
We were out last night and took some photos at the jam and vigil ride for Riley O'Neil (hosted by @bikegridnow.org), a CDOT employee who spent his life working to make biking safer in Chicago, and was killed in a crash in Bridgeport on Friday June, 5th.
Rest in Peace, Riley.
