Sidewalks – Bike Walk Wilmette

Here’s Your Chance to Tell Wilmette to Improve Biking and Walking in the Village

The Village is asking for public opinion about: 1) improving biking and walking on Green Bay Road and 2) adding a trail connecting the North Shore Channel trail to Sheridan Road. These two areas are heavily travelled by pedestrians and cyclists. Improving safety and the walking and cycling experience in both of these areas isContinueContinue reading “Here’s Your Chance to Tell Wilmette to Improve Biking and Walking in the Village”

Support our petition for safe walking and biking in Gillson Park

Do You Want Safer and Better Walking and Biking in Gillson?Bike Walk Wilmette does, tooWe support the Alternate PathHelp Us Convince the Park District If you want better and safer walking and biking in Gillson, and don’t need to know more, go to change.org to sign our petition. If you want to know more, readContinueContinue reading “Support our petition for safe walking and biking in Gillson Park”

Making Sheridan safer: It’s complicated

EAST WILMETTE – Everyone agreed: Sheridan Road needs to get safer. A lot safer. But how, that was up for a long debate on Wednesday night at the Village’s Transportation Commission Meeting. While the room got colder by the hour, the debate heated up. “Install protected bike lanes”, said our advocacy group Bike Walk Wilmette.ContinueContinue reading “Making Sheridan safer: It’s complicated”

Village might get more sidewalks

WILMETTE – Thanks to advocacy by Bike Walk Wilmette it will be much easier to create new sidewalks in the Village. In the past one-third of residents living adjacent to a proposed new sidewalk could stop its construction. Over the summer the Village amended the policy by creating so-called ‘Priority Sidewalks’ that can’t be vetoedContinueContinue reading “Village might get more sidewalks”