Chicago has unveiled its new Bike 2015 Plan, designed to achieve the mayor's goal to make the Windy City the most bicycle-friendly city in the United States. Work has already begun on 75 of the plan’s 150 strategies, including Constructing 10 miles of new bikeways in 2006, to help reach the plan’s goal of a 500-mile bikeway network by 2015… The Plan's Strategies Include:

Rob Sadowsky, the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation’s Executive Director, added, “The plan covers everything we hoped for: from new exciting active living programs such as Sunday Parkways to specific facilities that will make bicycling in Chicago safer and more enjoyable. The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation applauds the City of Chicago on what we see as the most ambitious bike plan in the United States.”

"Bicycling reduces traffic congestion, conserves limited energy resources, integrates healthy physical activity into everyday travel, and reduces transportation costs,” CDOT Acting Commissioner Cheri Heramb said. “This plan lays out the steps so that Chicago’s bicycle facilities and programs will rival those of any large city in the world.”

A copy of the plan is here.