Bike Traffic is the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation's monthly newsletter. Filled with news from the bicycling advocacy world, this is a great resource to keep you informed and up-to-date. Issues are available in both print and HTML. Online versions can be viewed as Web sites in a browser. For all other issues, please use Adobe Acrobat Reader. Are you a current Chicagoland Bicycle Federation member? Get Bike Traffic e-mailed to you, and help save resources.

Bike Traffic, January 2008
What is a bike plan — Homewood blazes ahead — Our legislative agenda — Bike 2015 soaring

Bike Traffic, December 2007
A bold 20-year vision, what we have in store for students, advocacy, bike trails and lanes, and youth development; meet new faces of advocacy; what to do after a crash.

Bike Traffic, November 2007
Meet volunteers, Keeping our work afloat, 20-year Vision, a committee for everyone, Road Show, Wheels of Justice, Help wanted

Bike Traffic, October 2007
Chicago’s first black bike club, Contact your representative about SB314, New membership campaign, Suburban ride funds new trail, Contribute to bike>>blog, Businesses find benefits in discount program, Harmon Hundred, New faces in bicycling advocacy

Bike Traffic, September 2007
Southland schools evaluated to improve walking and bicycling, Chicago targets school travel hazards, Safe Routes director finds pride and challenges, Children wearing helmets getting tickets, International Walk and Bike to School day, Crosswalk crackdown aims to cut crashes, Neighborhood bike trains download pdf

Bike Traffic, August 2007
Trail design uses students’ vision, Teen XXX racing, Teen transforms basement to bike shop, Memorial ride transforms grief to hope, Students become teachers in Junior Ambassadors, Teaching your child to ride a bike download pdf

Bike Traffic, July 2007
Report measures Chicago’s green effort, Bike shops reusing parts, Green lanes spotted around Chicago, Board member wins Mayor’s award, Horticulturalist brings bring on the job, Making a car-free life work with a family download pdf

Bike Traffic, June 2007
Bike to life — CBF’s trip to Guadalajara, Shopping by bike, Summer destinations to reach by bike, Do-it-yourself progressive bike and dine, Date by bike, Bike to NASCAR, Bikes and transit download pdf

Bike Traffic, April 2007
Legislative issue: Complete Streets; Fair and meaningful penalties for drivers who kill; Rep. Nekritz introduces crosswalk safety bill; Make way for police bikes; Passing distance set by bill; Chicagoland Bicycle Federation appeals for trail funds in Washington. download pdf

Bike Traffic, February 2007
Drive With Care issue: Healthy Streets Conference launches Drive With Care initiative; Social marketing; Ald. Reboyras on Drive With Care; Swedish bicycling. download pdf

Bike Traffic, March 2007
Bike Commuting issue: Commuter Challenge; Bicycling roommates; Who's commuting; Ask Mr. Bike. download pdf

Bike Traffic, December 2006/January 2007
Volunteers issue: Conversation with John D'Ambrose; Volunteer awards; Volunteers and advocacy; New board members. download pdf

Bike Traffic, November 06
Bicycling Facilities issue: Trails cast spell over suburbs; Chicago's Complete Streets policy; Bike parking program evolves; Lakefront Trail; Bikes on Metra; Chicagoland Bicycle Federation founders honored. download pdf

Bike Traffic, October 06
Go Healthy! issue: Physical activity prescriptions; Commuter loses 90 lbs on bicycle; Bicycle give-away changes lives; Bob Fuller's Roadside Memorials. download pdf

Bike Traffic, September 06
Safe Routes to School issue: International Walk to School Day; Walking school buses; Safe Routes to School and the federal transportation budget; Mayor Daley's Safe Routes Ambassadors. download pdf

Bike Traffic, August 06
Junior Ambassadors issue: After School Matters offer youth development with bicycles; Junior Ambassador looks back; CDOT focuses on bike lane maintenance. download pdf

Bike Traffic, July 06
Sunday Parkways issue: Importing a Latin American tradition; Streets for People; Meet the Chi-Town Cruisers. download pdf

Bike Traffic, June 06
Bike to Work, to Eat, to Play: Dining Rides Explore City, Suburbs; Great Suburban Destinations; Music Venues Await Bicyclists; A Way of Life in Copenhagen. download pdf

Bike Traffic, April 06
Complete Streets: Examining Oregon Law; DuPage County 'Healthy Roads'; Minorities Travel Dangerous Routes; Getting the Ball Rolling. download pdf

Bike Traffic, March 06
Drive With Care Issue: The Human Toll of Reckless Driving; Where There's Speed, Death Follows; March Conference Launches Drive With Care Campaign; A Long, Healthy Life Cut Short on Street; Minorities Bear Heaviest Burden of Speeding, Reckless Driving

Bike Traffic, February 06
The Political Issue: Leaders Discuss Importance of Bicycling; Citizen's Guide to Wielding Influence; Pending Bicycle/Pedestrian Legislation in Springfield

Bike Traffic, December 2005/January 06
Ten Steps That Lead Up, Crossing That Bridge, Engaging Women and Diverse Ethnicities, Value of Giving, Bike Commuters Do Lunch

Bike Traffic, November 2005
Fear Strikes Out – On a Bike, How Volunteers Make Advocacy Happen, Southland Hopes Pursue New Trails, Summer of Fun in West Suburbs, Legally Blind Bicyclist, Profile: Ron Gurule, Bicycling Advocacy in Namibia, Hotel Luxuriates in Bicycling

Bike Traffic, October 2005
Summer Jobs on Wheels; CBF Moves Into New Offices; Parking Enforcers Trained to Use Bikes; Chicago Unveils New Bike Signage; Message from New Orleans; Bicycling Advocacy in London; Expressway Vanishing Acts; Meet New Staff; Annual Members Meeting; Oak Park Shops by Bike; Bike Traffic Live on CAN-TV

Bike Traffic, September 2005
Federal Transportation Bill: Big Bucks, Big Challenges; Media Hypes Car/Bike Conflict; Safe Routes to School Gets First-Time Federal Funds; Durbin Wins Funds for 'Conserve By Bike'; Biking Aldermen Join CBF Board; Bike Art 'Gallery in Action'; Bike To Work Week Sets Record; Southland Healthy Streets Conference

Bike Traffic, August 2005
Fighting Obesity with Bikes; Where Are the Women Riders?; 'Bikeracker Suite'; Making Room for Bikes; Memorial to Fund Teen Job Training; Autumn Biking Begins with BLT; New Board Members; West Suburban Shop by Bike; Sherman Park Criterium

Bike Traffic, July 2005
Congestion Reigns; The Kinder, Bikey-er Metra; City's New Strategy for School Safety; Blue Island Bike Parade; Chicago Cell Phone Ban; What About Boub?; Chicago Named "Bike Friendly"

Bike Traffic, June 2005
Crosstown Baseball and Bikes; WBEZ's Abby Ryan; Bikes on Metra; Re-Designing Intersections; Bike/Life Lessons After School; Blue Island Walking School Bus; Healthy Streets

Bike Traffic, May 2005
Special Bike The Drive Issue: Chicagoland Bicycle Federation Annual Report; Safe Routes to School, Healthy Streets, Bicycle Lane Network and more!

Bike Traffic, April 2005
All Bikes on Metra; Traffic Calming in Naperville; Red-light camera enforcement; A Vision for Safe Routes; Cal-Sag Trail

Bike Traffic, March 2005
Gala, Conference Weekend Highlights; Indiana's 'Gotta Roll With the Changes'; Metra Bill Advances; Bikes and Peds: On the Map, but Uncounted; Crossing That Bridge with Keith Holt; PLUS: A Profile of CBF's New President

Bike Traffic, February 2005
The Mighty Quinn wants Bikes on Metra NOW!; CTA to build boo-koo bike parking; CBF wins money for bikes in Cook County FPD budget; the Big Grabowski bows out of bike program; new staff, same space; depaving paradise; PLUS: them Northwestern kids is smart!

Bike Traffic, December - January 2005
The Fed's [and Randy Neufeld's!] 20th Anniversary; Driver Guilty of Murder; CDOT Gets a Grip on Wells St. Bridge; Slush Fun; Anti-Car in a Practical Sense

Bike Traffic, November 2004
We make sure BikeTown USA leaves no bicyclist behind; village rides jump start village interest in bike planning; Rebecca Much—volunteer, and oh yeah, world championship silver medalist; Road Show recap; more bicycling means longer lives, safer streets; plus track those trips, shrink those hips!

Bike Traffic, October 2004
Riding side-by-side, chatting; Safe Routes sprouts new solutions; writing with your feet; Illinois Tollway's Rocco Zucchero; Forest Park likes Shop by Bike; plus FITCH!

Bike Traffic, September 2004
Bickerbikes, bigger horizons; Bike and Walk to School Day; what makes a good bike plan; Southland puts on its spurs.

Bike Traffic, August 2004
Major Taylor lives inside of you; Cook County public input meetings; nothing wicks like fishnet; Bike to Shabbat, PLUS: Lance Armstrong, all-powerful, all merciful.

Bike Traffic, June-July 2004
Follow me to Blue Island; Bicyclists win in new Chicago zoning ordinance; Meet Rob Sadowsky, Executive Director; Turning swords into prairie trails; PLUS: Bike the volcano!

Bike Traffic, May 2004
Coalition of the pedaling; Bike to Work Week; Tour de Lanes; Independence Day

Bike Traffic, April 2004
DuPage County doing great; Cook County will do better; IDOT doing what it can; Complete the Streets; PLUS...a car-free future doesn't HAVE to be spoiled by atomic mutant zombies.

Bike Traffic, March 2004
Contextual healing, contextual...HEALING; SuburBAN survey results; Bike to the oasis; Lessons from Europe.

Bike Traffic, February 2004
Driving instructors get a rule injection; Chicagoland Bicycle Conference details; Bike Town Bash & Photo Contest; Will Bike the Drive save Dad?; Ride tall for Jesus.

Bike Traffic, December 2003/January 2004
Safe Routes wins in Wauconda; Power Rangers lose after school; Bike Culture lecture series; How do you say BLOS?

Bike Traffic, November 2003
Metra reaches for failure, succeeds; Ambassadors welcome masses both huddled and teeming, pedalin' the Hennepin; rollin' rollin rollin', man by ass is swollen, rawhiiiide!

Bike Traffic, October 2003
Enhancements saved; Major Taylor kinda open; $100 fine for right-turn-on-red death; Rat at War.

Bike Traffic, September 2003
Wauconda school bans bikes; 'burb report; driver faces murder charge; Aunty Em! Aunty Em!

Bike Traffic, August 2003
Congress tries killing bike funding; fixin' to teach bike safety; divorce as a bike safety tool; a bike built for poo.

Bike Traffic, July 2003
BikeOne; Oak Park schools ban bikes; bikes on some trains again; Wrenchforce Ninja Teens; Itzy bitsy teenie-weenie...

Bike Traffic, June 2003
Letter ride; suburban coordinators; lid law letters; ride (or walk) the Plank; we swear, but sometimes we don't

Bike Traffic, May 2003
Safe Routes for peds!; police beat; it only hurts when I stop; Bikes & the Law seminar report

Bike Traffic, April 2003
A Patriot's Act; automobile alibi; road to helmet law paved with good intentions; Cycling Sisters; Viva la Ciclovia!

Bike Traffic, March 2003
Hit & run runaroud; who takes the pledge; when I say stop, I mean STOP!; Chicago Works Out

Bike Traffic, February 2003
Bank holds up biker; speed sells, then kills; view from suburbia; they paved paradise

Bike Traffic, December 2002/January 2003
Take the Driver's Pledge; CBF is in da House; LSD construction on-track, off path; here i-go again; wheelfare to work program

Bike Traffic, November 2002
Honk if I'm driving too fast; America: the fat's built-in; pedalgoguey; we sure want a Breezer

Bike Traffic, October 2002
Kane County BLOS-soming; feel lucky, bike lane blocker; one word (okay, 2): bike racks; grand theft non-auto

Bike Traffic, September 2002
Bike the Ike; bike lane bonanza; bikes against the wall; walking to school; there's a bike on your back

Bike Traffic, August 2002
Mayor lost; Al biking; messenger training delivers; being hit; New Day Cafe has Old World bike culture

Bike Traffic, July 2002
Bike shop takes on county; bikes back on Metra; Bike 2010 Plan takes form; bike takes a back seat.

Bike Traffic, June 2002
Pro-bike promises; better biking through browsing; mayor rallies the troops; gas taxes and the public good; Behold, the Rat!

Bike Traffic, May 2002
Bikes win, oil loses; 2010: a (street) space odyssey; fair drivers rewarded; Critical Mass shows 'em

Bike Traffic, April 2002
First ever Bike the Drive; Independence Day in May; i-go, you go; long distance training

Bike Traffic, March 2002
IDOT's level of disservice; bike to the future; Durbin favors exploration; raising the bridge issue; Kamen gives us SHT

Bike Traffic, February 2002
Busses on bikes; bikes on buses; defective driving; pie a la mode share; WHAT bike race?

Bike Traffic, January 2002
Fitzpatrick convicted of murder; Safe Routes to School; bike tours for CDOT; get rich quick!

Bike Traffic, December 2001
Conservation and the war against terrorism; Navy Pier flyover; don't worry m'am, you're safe; ride or swim

Bike Traffic, November 2001
South lakefront reconstruction; Major Taylor Trail; Metra bikes on trains pilot report; moat of parking; plus...Mormons!


The following issues are available as PDFs only:

October, 2001
Bike Paths, Half Off!
Also: Sheridan - Bikes Get the Boot!; Chicago Funds CBF Air Play; CABDA Dead at 53; &
Take the Shirt Off Your Back

September, 2001
Southeast Chicago Goes Greenway
Also: Sheridan Bike Ban; Pace Picks Up Bikes!; South Suburban Bike Plan; Monthly Cycle Club

August, 2001
Bikes on Metra Special Issue!

June/July 2001
Menace to Society: The Murder of Thomas McBride
Also: Buses & Bikes Make Nice, Sister Solidarity, & Bike Bash Rehash

April/May 2001
Wacker Low Blow: Bike Bans Land the Knockout Punch
Also: Cary At a Crossroads; Bikes on the L: Not 24, but 7; Sticky Relationships; & Lauren Salmi, Survivor: It IS About the Bike

February/March 2001
Suburbs Say "No!": Will IDOT Still Go All the Way?
Also: Boub Gets a Wedgie; Sex? What!?; Swanky SRAM Soiree; Janet Schmidt: Cycling1s Unlikely - and Perfect - Poster Girl

December 2000/January 2001
Chicagoland Gets Bike Projects: Springfield Gets a Parking Lot
Also: Enhance This!; Cabbie Conversions; Courier Coaching; Bogota Just Says No; Oh Yeah, Cops Dig Us