Support Biker and Pedestrian Safety Now!

I'm asking you to help us to fight for biker and pedestrian safety this legislative season. Please help us in building support for SB3478, which directs IDOT to create a statewide bike grid and requires that bike lanes must be protected. This bill is not a Bike Grid Now proposal but does initiate a planning stage for the grid. We feel this is an important step to help us in creating a safer Chicago and IL broadly.

We are also uplifting the following bills!

This week in committee:

  1. HB2454 - Makes bicycles intended users (rather than permitted) of a roadway, excluding interstates or controlled access highways.

  2. HB2934 - Lowers the urban speed limit from 30 to 20 on roadways and from 15 to 10 in alleyways

  3. HB4333 - Lowers BAC threshold for DUI from .08% to .05%

  4. HB4281/(SB3435 counterpart) - Lowers population threshold for installing automated speed enforcement cameras from cities with 1,000,000+ to 25,000+ in counties that have over 3,000,000 residents.

  5. SB3336/(HB4925 counterpart) - Adds a contingency that to ride on a Class 3 e-bikes as a passenger under 18 years old, the operator must be at least 18 years of age (rather than 16 years of age)

Here is another bill that I would like you to support:

SB2966 - Requires active transportation safety coursework in K-8 annually, including pedestrian, bike, and ebike safety for Grades 4-8

Please consider opposing the following bills:

Pedestrian and Bike :

  1. HB5081 - Removes some eligibility of "safety zones" (for automated speed enforcement) when the speed limit is decreased by ordinance from 30 to 20 mph.

  2. HB4044 - Expands usage of automated speed enforcement from 1,000,000 residents to any home rule unit (and non-home rule with a successful referendum) for the purposes of using revenue for property tax relief without investments in safer infrastructure.

Autonomous Vehicles:

  1. HB4633 - Allows for a pilot of autonomous vehicles in counties with 1,000,000 residents and Sangamon, Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe counties. Allows for the authorization of AVs after three years. While AVs may excel in some safety categories, they are deficient in others and weigh more than internal combustion vehicles, making contact with bicyclists more deadly.

  2. HB5220 - Would allow autonomous vehicles to operate on the public way.

  3. SB3308 - Allows for an autonomous vehicle pilot program statewide.


Thank you,

A committed voter, biker, and pedestrian.