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Chicago’s 30 mph speed limit, lack of connectivity again lead to low People for Bikes rating

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2021/07/...-bikes-rating/

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- People for Bikes ranked Chicago 16 places behind, Jacksonville, Florida, population 890,467, a city with no rapid transit and the second-lowest population density of any large U.S. city. It’s basically a worst-case scenario of car-centric sprawl, with relatively few bikeways. In 2016, Chicago’s bike mode share was 1.7%. Jacksonville’s was less than half that, at 0.7%. In 2018 & 2019, Chicago saw six and four bike deaths, respectively. Jacksonville, with about a third of the population of Chicago, saw 10 deaths both years, which means it had about six times the bike fatality rate as our city. Clearly, People for Bikes ranking Chicago far below Jacksonville and many other similarly car-centric, bike-hostile cities, is off-base.

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