125K Bike Trips a Day
This would seem to be another set of sketchy numbers to push the Divvy bike thing - we should be seeing way more bikes than we do:
- Biking is big.
Chicago averages about 125,000 daily bike trips, and a new study has broken the trips into categories. The majority of trips — 91,000 — are “utilitarian” trips, like going to the store or the library. Using a bike to commute to work accounts for about 26,000 (a statistic that tripled between 2000 and 2012). School trips are 7,000.
The numbers used are based on individual rides, and not round trips.
The estimates, which do not include recreational biking, are year-round averages, and will balloon in warmer months and shrink in the colder ones, according to the Active Transportation Alliance, which commissioned the report.
The Active Transportation Alliance is a non-profit advocacy group that promotes bicycling, walking and public transit.
We don't know where the trips the dope boys make running the packs or security circling the block count, but we assume that's the only way they could make it to nearly three-quarters-of-a-million trips per week. But we do know that Rahm wants justification for taking out another hundred plus miles of serviceable vehicle lanes for bikes lanes that can only be used 6 months out of the year. This might be it.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
41 Comments:
That seems like an order of magnitude off. I hate shitty press releases in newspapers as "journalism."
It takes a special type of fool to believe anythng the 'Trixie Transportation Alliance' says
As the fight against global warming swings into high gear, and the price of gasoline and diesel rapidly raise, bikes will become the transportation of choice. Millions, upon millions will switch from automobiles to bicycles. It won't be long before all you see on the streets and roadways will be bikes and buses. A new age is upon us.
Fucking idiotic is what it is.
Soon Lawrence will be one lane each direction western to the drive.
I guess the mayor doesn't travel that path.
bicycles, in Chicago, brilliant.
haha, tens of thousands of trips per day TO THE LIBRARY!?
Didn't Rahm shut down a bunch of libraries?
"The Active Transportation Alliance is a non-profit advocacy group " says it all. Anyone want to bet their house on these numbers?
Ride your bikes on the side street. 99.9% of us have places to go in our cars. Spending millions on these bike lanes for the few is a ridiculous waste of money.
My favorite "taxpayers head exploding" moment was in January when I counted eight City workers shoveling out the bike lanes on a bridge. Three months later I saw my first bike on that bridge.
Does this count the mileage from stationary exercise bikes?
That would be Chicago math.
We call the 125K number big time bullshit. Working in zone 4, which it is assumed has the largest concentration of divy bike stations, if we see a dozen being used during a tour it would be a miracle. The best is the station that sits in front of the Dearborn homes. You have to be one dumb MFer to pull out a credit card to pay at that location, unless you want to experience the ultimate in urban culture.
And why does the "advocacy group" have to use estimated numbers? People pay for the damn bikes when they use them. Just count the number of daily receipts and you'll have an actual number. Oh wait . . . If you do that the numbers can't be fudged to the mighty midget's benefit.
Tax em!
YES - let's transition Chicago into a clogged European city that only has small streets and many need to ride bicycles because the roads built in the 1500 -1600s are too small to handle traffic.
This is regression - NOT progress.
More bikes in Chicago because:
1) We're turning more into a third world economy (Some very rich, but the vast majority poor - no middle class)
2) Young people opt out of buying cars - not because they think bicycles are some better "ecologically-friendly" mode of transportation - in their minimum wage jobs at Starbucks, they can't afford buying and maintaining a car.
Coolies ride bikes. Upward professionals drive cars. We're telling (and encouraging) younger generations to set lower goals.
Rahm -- For the masses, here is your bike path while I drive in my 4-car entourage driving through all stoplights because I am the Commissar in Chicago.
Divy bikes is losing money and the agreement with the city has the city paying 90% of the loss. Sweet huh?
So when do we have to bail out the CTA because no one is riding the bus or trains? How much revenue are we losing in gas and sales tax. parking tickets, parking taxes? I noticed South Chicago Avenue is down to one lane each way for traffic and the bike lanes are ghost towns, The feew remaining factories will soon move to Indiana,
Who is doing the counting McCarthy and Rahm. Next week it will be 200,000 rides because crime is down.
They got that "125,000" statistic from Compstat.
They confused it with the number of shots fired in Chicago.
(New Years Eve was eliminated by the 'Active Ammunition Alliance, a non-profit advocacy group that promotes, banging, wildings and public TIF fund hoarding)
...according to the Active Transportation Alliance, ....
Chicago averages about 125,000 daily bike trips, and a new study has broken the trips into categories. ~~~ The majority of trips — 91,000 — are “utilitarian” trips, like going to the store or the library. ~~~ Using a bike to commute to work accounts for about 26,000 (a statistic that tripled between 2000 and 2012). School trips are 7,000.
These people, their stats, and their study, is full of shit. Then they have the balls to say this: 'According to Active Transportation, the estimate for all bike trips is conservative ....'
Conservative my ass. Complete and utter Horse-shit is what it is.
[93.74% of all statistics are made up on the spot]
I was amused to see special traffic lights for the bike lanes downtown. I watched about 15 cyclists blow threw the red lights in under 2 minutes.
I am tired of all the cyclists who do not obey traffic laws. Running red lights and stop signs, failing to signal turns and stops, and generally behaving like menaces.
Yes, the dope couriers and the petty criminals like to bike also.
Every time I go to court I am always looking for the bike
Riders on humbuldt blvd! Haven't seen one since they put up the special lanes. Because that is the place I would go for a leisure ride! Haha
Anonymous Anonymous said...
As the fight against global warming swings into high gear, and the price of gasoline and diesel rapidly raise, bikes will become the transportation of choice. Millions, upon millions will switch from automobiles to bicycles. It won't be long before all you see on the streets and roadways will be bikes and buses. A new age is upon us.
6/10/2014 12:33:00 AM
Yes, I can see it now. Move that couch or cocktail table on a bike. Take your newborn home from the hospital on a bike. Make a quick weekend run to your summer vacation home on a bike. Take your golden to the vet on a bike. Change is upon us.
I say BS, every divvy rack I see in my NS district is always full and I may only see 1 or 2 actually being ridden in an entire tour.
The city and the company will say all is hunky dory, until the true books come out and another Mayoral pet project will drain more money from the taxpayers who don't have money to piss away
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Fucking idiotic is what it is.
Soon Lawrence will be one lane each direction western to the drive.
I guess the mayor doesn't travel that path.
bicycles, in Chicago, brilliant.
6/10/2014 01:50:00 AM
Milwaukee Avenue is gridlock most of the time now. Having one traffic lane constricts the flow and bicycles decimate any remaining traffic flow. Bikes traveling side by side, blowing through signals, weaving in and out in the blind spot of cars, truck and buses, frequently scraping the sides of cars in their haste to fly between moving vehicles. Yes, this is all very helpful. Great 'planning' (or the lack thereof), Rahm.
When I was a little kid and dreamed about what the transportation of the future would be like, I never imagined...bikes.
Going backwards.
This sounds like a bunch of s__t.
Go to almost any large shoppping mall, grocery store, in town and it's like ten thousand cars and MAYBE ONE bike, locked to the nearest usable object, which is half a block from the front door -- in the rain.
That one's probably mine.
Very, very few people do any sort of serious load-carrying. The trendies who appear in little PBS "news items" about their heroic zip to work or ride around the park almost invariably own one car for each adult family member.
"It won't be long before all you see on the streets and roadways will be bikes and buses. A new age is upon us."
6/10/2014 12:33:00 AM
Yeah, right. China is making up for this by going in exactly the opposite direction, eighteen lanes of killer smog and gridlock, and India is building the "Tata" car to get another thousand million people or so on the road...
So much piddling around with dippybikes and curlybulbs and recycling containers while, as I write, the CHILDREN of Central and South America have begun to march upon us en masse.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/09/us/undocumented-children-immigrants/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/09/lawmakers-fault-lax-obama-immigration-policies-for-calamity-in-arizona/
Read "Camp Of The Saints." Free downloads.
https://archive.org/details/CampOfTheSaints
...and I just saw a crazy puff piece about some guy who's "saving the Earth" by living in a "recycled" Boeing 727 set up out in the woods. The whole project has cost him over $300,000 by now -- ten times what a snug, efficient little dwelling would have cost.
Until "environmentalism" addresses overpopulation itself -- and not just the effects of that overpopulation -- it's nothing more than a dangerous distraction from the actual problem.
How many hundreds of thousands has rahm given of money that could be better used to shore the pensions to this crew? Divy guys did not make enough they want more and rahm is more than happy to throw more of our cash at them!
125K bike rides a day and not one cent of taxes paid by these slugs. More of the gimee-gimee crowd. Gimee protected bike lines, gimee protection while I'm riding all paid on the back of the motorist and motor fuel taxes. I'm ready to start playing bumper tag with some of these nitwits and how they ride their bikes.
I still don't get this Divvy thing. The people who are using it are mostly people who would have walked anyway. Isn't it more carbon-friendly to walk rather than cause a bike to be manufactured? Others might have taken a cab, or the CTA, or a car, those are all money-makers for the city... Anyway, I'll continue to drive my 454 Suburban and pretend that we're still a first-world nation.
6Months?You can cut that number in 1/2.
Take a congested city and make it MORE congested.
When these Millions of Tourists come here they are going to go back home and say..... Chicago is Clean for a Major City but everywhere you go there is congestion and these Idiot Bikers think they own the road.
"I won't be going back there anytime soon".
Someone out there please tell the bikers that they are supposed to obey the traffic laws also.
Stop at stop signs.
Wait for green lights to proceed.
Stay in some type of lane.
Don't go between cars.
They are not motorcycles after all.
""The numbers used are based on individual rides, and not round trips.""
Yah, because I bike to the library, never to return....Guy who said order of magnitude is right. The number is no more than half that to begin with.....
Gerry McCarthy has to make some real hard decisions if his health has deteriorated to this point. More important than anything having to do with cpd this summer.
They're counting a ride to school/work/"the library" and back as 2 trips. It's a brainless way for them to boost the numbers but also very silly - nobody sets out on a one-way "bike trip". ~62k trips a day sounds believable.
Hmm, from the article:
"Western Avenue carries approximately 40,000 cars per day on its 23 miles."
Is that 40,000 cars or car trips? It's even easier to believe that there are more cars driven down Western alone every day than bikes ridden everywhere across the whole city.
I never believed the rider totals from the get go.
--No Cop Here
If Rahm wants it Rahm gets it and nobody, I mean nobody, can convince him his idea sucked.
There are a lot of senior citizens like myself who ride bikes in the park and on the side streets.
Let me give you my opinion about bike lanes.
Absolutely crazy, stupid and very unsafe !
Anyone who rides a bike on a main street ( even in a bike lane )in Chicago has to have their head examined.
Main streets are for motor vehicles,
not bikes.
- Not a police officer here
Chicago has some of the highest if not the highest gas tax..... and I now have less lanes to travel on leading to longer travel times, more idling and of course, more gas to be purchased *sigh* unfucking believable
Yah, because I bike to the library, never to return....Guy who said order of magnitude is right. The number is no more than half that to begin with.....
6/10/2014 04:00:00 PM
West and south side fathers go to the store for a pack of cigs and pop tarts- never to return. Northside fathers go to the library- never to return lol
"125K bike rides a day and not one cent of taxes paid by these slugs."
6/10/2014 01:13:00 PM
Oh, don't worry. Most people you see on bikes between the Lake and Western Ave. are property-owning, car-owning trendies on a lark -- when not riding their $2500 bikes in fine weather, they are burning up the wires calling the city to get sloped concrete poured in underpasses to keep the genuinely poor and homeless as far from their "condos" and "townhouses" as possible. "No flat surfaces" -- someone might lay down in the grit and suffer, like the callers lay down on their imported Dux beds, albeit minus the dirt and pain.
The rest of the city looks completely different.
Old Retired Guy Here Again.........
I Ride My Bicycle At Least Twice A Week. I Take Different Routes To and From The Lake Front. I Ride From My Home on The North West Side of Chicago. I Ride About 25 to 30 Miles On One Of My Rides. I Wanted To State These Facts,In Order To Give My Comments Some Reference. Anyone, Including Myself, Who Rides A Bicycle In Chicago, Is Putting Their Lives In The Hands Of Others. It Is, Very Unsafe. Every Time I Go For A Ride I Have At Least One Close Call With A Accident. Bike Lanes Serve One Purpose. That Purpose Is To Give Your Attorney Something To Use In The Civil Law Suit Case That Caused Your Accident. All Flower Pots, and Median Flower Dividers Should Be Torn Out. They Cause Nothing But Clutter. The Streets of Chicago Need To Be Opened Up, And Free of These Ill-Conceived Objects. Lastly, Other Bicycles, Are Very Dangerous, To Older Riders, As Myself. They Pass On Both Left And Right With No Warning.
PS: Have A Nice Day !!!
Curmudgeon open post.
Gee, do these ridership figures include the neck bearded Wicker Park idiots on fifteen-dollar single-speed bikes that wind up underneath CTA buses? Or does the Active Transportation Alliance have the Sawed-off Samurai of Area Three and his sidekick Whitewalsh purge the statistics like they do homicides? Just axin'.
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