It’s getting easier to bike to work in Chicago. The city added 100 miles of new bike lanes over the last five years, and, by 2019, plans to add another 50 miles of “better” bike lanes, including lanes with curbs to protect riders from cars. Now the city is beginning to consider going further, with a series of floating, solar-powered bike paths along the edge of the Chicago River. Architecture firm, SecondShore, hopes to run a pilot project, perhaps by the summer of 2017, in Chicago’s 33rd Ward, giving riders a chance to experience a half mile of a basic iteration of the path, and giving the designers feedback on the system.