The city of Champaign is looking to join its sister city, Urbana, as one
of the few cities in Illinois designated as a "bicycle friendly
community" by the League of American Bicyclists. According to the Daily Illini, the city will be submitting their application to the League for the February deadline, which is listed for the 26th.
The Bicycle Friendly Community Program was
established for the purposes of instituting standardized measurements in
comparing the efficacy of an individual city's bike advocacy. The five
categories upon which the League tests an applicant city's bike
friendliness is colloquially termed the "Five E's:" Engineering, Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, and Evaluation.
In order to qualify for the application, the city has undergone a series
of changes with regards to both its infrastructure and its
motorist-cyclist culture. Just in the past few years, Champaign has
installed roughly 9 miles of painted bike lanes. In addition to the
city's efforts, businesses in the city have proactively pursued
receiving bike friendly business designations with three of Illinois's
ten bike friendly businesses being in Champaign (the most of any city in
Illinois). The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is Illinois's
only bike friendly university.
The Illinois Bicycle Lawyers at Keating Law
Offices applaud both the cities of Champaign and Urbana for actively
seeking to increase their bike advocacy efforts and for seeking to make
cycling safer and more accessible for newcomers and veterans alike. Even
though our firm is based in Chicago, we are licensed and available to
handle cases throughout Illinois. Just a month ago, Keating Law Offices successfully settled a case on behalf of a Champaign cyclist who had been injured in a Champaign bicycle accident.
If you have any questions regarding this post or an
issue involving Illinois personal injury law, please contact Illinois
Bicycle Lawyer Mike Keating by calling him at 312-208-7022 or emailing him at MKeating@KeatingLegal.com.
Keating Law Offices are the premiere personal injury lawyers representing bicyclists injured in an accident in Illinois. The firm offers free consultations and there are no fees unless we win for you. Our attorneys have a long history of success representing clients injured in bike accidents in Chicago, the suburbs and throughout Illinois. The Illinois Bicycle Lawyers are committed to advocating for the rights of bicyclists and fighting for bicyclists injured in bike accidents.
