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Message from New Orleans: 'The Unseen Faces of Bicycling' Bicycling Advocacy Around the Globe: London Who Knows Where the Traffic Goes? Oak Park Shop By Bike a Winner New Faces in Bicycling Advocacy |
Biking's the Ticket If you get a parking ticket in Chicago, it might just come from someone on a bicycle. On July 26 and 28, parking enforcement staff of Chicago’s Department of Revenue took classes on traffic cycling from instructors of the Bike School of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. The department has hired CBF to train its parking enforcement aides four times since 2001. Each time, CBF delivered its eight-hour class, called “Bike Handling Smarts and Traffic Cycling Tips.” The class teaches people to bicycle confidently in traffic and keep their bikes running in the face of the usual flats and squeaky chains. Most of Chicago’s parking enforcement aides use department vans to get to the places where they’ll write tickets. Some, however, choose to bicycle. The latter receive CBF’s training, and the Department of Revenue provides the bikes. Municipal agencies from across Chicagoland have started to contact CBF about training their employees who want to bicycle on the job. Interested? Contact CBF Director of Education Dave Glowacz at (312) 427-3325, ext. 229, or glow@biketraffic.org. J.R. Nanczek is a Chicago-based freelance writer
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