Zak Patterson
@zakpatterson.bsky.social
Mostly into car-free Lincoln Square right now. SlowStreets.org
Other projects in the neighborhood:
bunnyearsart.com
tailorbirdfabrics.com
Other projects in the neighborhood:
bunnyearsart.com
tailorbirdfabrics.com
I’m missing our plaza today.
May 15, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’m missing our plaza today.
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How much can you bench bro?
Sad to see the Lincoln Ave Promenade benches go? Go support @slowstreets.org, they've got plans to bring them back.
Sad to see the Lincoln Ave Promenade benches go? Go support @slowstreets.org, they've got plans to bring them back.
May 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
How much can you bench bro?
Sad to see the Lincoln Ave Promenade benches go? Go support @slowstreets.org, they've got plans to bring them back.
Sad to see the Lincoln Ave Promenade benches go? Go support @slowstreets.org, they've got plans to bring them back.
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The people have spoken! Demand for people-first streets is undeniable.
Join us as we launch our fight for pedestrian zones across Chicago. All are welcome at Lincoln Taproom on Thursday, May 8th at 6pm.
We've got lots in store for this summer... 👀
Join us as we launch our fight for pedestrian zones across Chicago. All are welcome at Lincoln Taproom on Thursday, May 8th at 6pm.
We've got lots in store for this summer... 👀
May 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The people have spoken! Demand for people-first streets is undeniable.
Join us as we launch our fight for pedestrian zones across Chicago. All are welcome at Lincoln Taproom on Thursday, May 8th at 6pm.
We've got lots in store for this summer... 👀
Join us as we launch our fight for pedestrian zones across Chicago. All are welcome at Lincoln Taproom on Thursday, May 8th at 6pm.
We've got lots in store for this summer... 👀
So good today
Day 12 Update. 50 degrees and sunny. Wow! Loved all of the conversations with @lilybeansdad.bsky.social @mezentine.bsky.social @mclean.bsky.social @slackermom.bsky.social @chuyiwen.bsky.social @zakpatterson.bsky.social and so many other neighbors!
May 3, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So good today
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We did it Chicago. We banned cars on Lincoln. Go enjoy the car free street for the next 10 days.
If you want to see more benches donate to the Lincoln Square Safe Streets Union of Bike Grid Now and leave a comment letting us know you're donating for benches.
www.gofundme.com/f/flags-and-...
If you want to see more benches donate to the Lincoln Square Safe Streets Union of Bike Grid Now and leave a comment letting us know you're donating for benches.
www.gofundme.com/f/flags-and-...
April 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We did it Chicago. We banned cars on Lincoln. Go enjoy the car free street for the next 10 days.
If you want to see more benches donate to the Lincoln Square Safe Streets Union of Bike Grid Now and leave a comment letting us know you're donating for benches.
www.gofundme.com/f/flags-and-...
If you want to see more benches donate to the Lincoln Square Safe Streets Union of Bike Grid Now and leave a comment letting us know you're donating for benches.
www.gofundme.com/f/flags-and-...
Supporters of this plan need to stay extremely positive, act to help people having problems, and not play a game of arguing. Because the joy of this place speaks for itself. So good.
Lincoln Square Road Closure and Accompanying Comments From The Local Facebook Page (April 2025)
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Supporters of this plan need to stay extremely positive, act to help people having problems, and not play a game of arguing. Because the joy of this place speaks for itself. So good.
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Thank you thank you. It takes a whole community to make these things happen. Lincoln Ave wouldn't be this amazing without the Bench Boys @acannon.bsky.social @urbenist.bsky.social @nxg1029.bsky.social @zakpatterson.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Thank you thank you. It takes a whole community to make these things happen. Lincoln Ave wouldn't be this amazing without the Bench Boys @acannon.bsky.social @urbenist.bsky.social @nxg1029.bsky.social @zakpatterson.bsky.social
Let the kids in the street Lincoln Square
April 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Let the kids in the street Lincoln Square
Applies right now in Lincoln Square
How many times have I passed up stopping in a store when I was in a car. All the hassles-parking-dealing with other cars. With children endless buckling & unbuckling & reinserting in strollers. In a pedestrian/cycling zone you need only seduce me into your shop with a single interesting object!
Remember, when Barcelona eliminated 3 lanes of vehicle traffic & converted this street into a 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid, businesses sued. They actually won. But by decision-time, the businesses had decided they actually like it.
citylabbcn.org/the-legal-at...
citylabbcn.org/the-legal-at...
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Applies right now in Lincoln Square
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It truly is incredible how community and humanity immediately thrive as soon as cars are removed from public space.
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
It truly is incredible how community and humanity immediately thrive as soon as cars are removed from public space.
I feel the same way. I am here again just to have a little breakfast and work. 9:30 in the morning doesn’t feel like this usually. I don’t feel like I have to just get in and get what I need and leave.
April 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I feel the same way. I am here again just to have a little breakfast and work. 9:30 in the morning doesn’t feel like this usually. I don’t feel like I have to just get in and get what I need and leave.
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Here it is, your #BlueSky #Bike Content of the Day for Wednesday, 4/23/25. Take the cars away and there’s so much energy and joy -
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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How lovely would this be, if every neighborhood had at least one street like this
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
How lovely would this be, if every neighborhood had at least one street like this
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Having the square blocked off to cars has been even nicer than I expected. Would be such a gift to the neighborhood and city to make this permanent.
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Having the square blocked off to cars has been even nicer than I expected. Would be such a gift to the neighborhood and city to make this permanent.
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I walked through here tonight en route to some errands and I was smiling the whole time. It was so pleasant, no honking, no traffic, no one disobeying the stop sign at the end of the street. I'd love if this became permanent.
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I walked through here tonight en route to some errands and I was smiling the whole time. It was so pleasant, no honking, no traffic, no one disobeying the stop sign at the end of the street. I'd love if this became permanent.
Joking aside, top down leadership is what is required here. Enough polling, enough with yielding to preconceptions of small business owners. Lead.
If I were the Alder of this Ward, I would commandeer a bulldozer and go Megis Field on that stretch of Lincoln. Carve big ass X’s on either side and let the middle return to nature.
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Joking aside, top down leadership is what is required here. Enough polling, enough with yielding to preconceptions of small business owners. Lead.
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I want this in my neighborhood so bad!
We have a park but I wish we had safer streets to bike on.
We have a park but I wish we had safer streets to bike on.
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I want this in my neighborhood so bad!
We have a park but I wish we had safer streets to bike on.
We have a park but I wish we had safer streets to bike on.
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Also I go to therapy a block from here and it hasn’t been any harder to park, so it seems like the neighborhood can absorb it just fine
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Also I go to therapy a block from here and it hasn’t been any harder to park, so it seems like the neighborhood can absorb it just fine
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I have met more of my neighbors in the past 3 days than I have in the past 2 years of living in Lincoln Square and it's all thanks to a temporary road closure, some benches, and chalk.
We need to get cars off our streets, ASAP.
We need to get cars off our streets, ASAP.
April 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I have met more of my neighbors in the past 3 days than I have in the past 2 years of living in Lincoln Square and it's all thanks to a temporary road closure, some benches, and chalk.
We need to get cars off our streets, ASAP.
We need to get cars off our streets, ASAP.
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
April 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This feels special to me. I don’t know how else to say it. Lincoln Square is standing on the precipice of something great. I hope the right people realize it.
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“We’re out here because there’s no cars right now, which is nice”
- dad of a 20 month year old
Listen to the parents, they want safe places for their kids to play!
youtu.be/k_kAobBPXh0
- dad of a 20 month year old
Listen to the parents, they want safe places for their kids to play!
youtu.be/k_kAobBPXh0
Main stretch in Lincoln Square closes to traffic for a week
YouTube video by CBS Chicago
youtu.be
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“We’re out here because there’s no cars right now, which is nice”
- dad of a 20 month year old
Listen to the parents, they want safe places for their kids to play!
youtu.be/k_kAobBPXh0
- dad of a 20 month year old
Listen to the parents, they want safe places for their kids to play!
youtu.be/k_kAobBPXh0
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Get me to god’s country
April 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Get me to god’s country
I can’t stop going these past few days. It’s so much better this way.
Safe streets advocates aren't waiting for decision-makers to turn Lincoln into a more people-friendly street. On Monday they did it themselves.
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/04/22/e... @mclean.bsky.social @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org @cbschicago.bsky.social @lilybeansdad.bsky.social
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/04/22/e... @mclean.bsky.social @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social @bikegridnow.org @cbschicago.bsky.social @lilybeansdad.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I can’t stop going these past few days. It’s so much better this way.