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18th Street protected bike lane construction started + video of Jackson

Construction on the 18th Street protected bike lane, between Clark and Canal, started Monday. 

Read more on Grid Chicago

Also check out this video on Jackson Boulevard (1m35s, and embedded in the Grid Chicago article). 

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Hooray on 18th street!!!!!

Jackson has looked just like that for a month now. Any idea when the "protection" starts getting installed?

Nope. I asked, no one's answered yet. That might be because CDOT's spokesperson, Brian Steele, left CDOT last week and moved to CTA, where he started yesterday. 

 

I wonder what's going on with Elston - resurfacing finished there on Monday. 


h' said:

Hooray on 18th street!!!!!

Jackson has looked just like that for a month now. Any idea when the "protection" starts getting installed?

Thank you for the tip. It saves me a trip there.

Cameron Puetz said:

I rode it this morning and I they haven't even started roughing in the lane lines yet, so my guess is that it will be awhile.

Steven Vance said: 

I wonder what's going on with Elston - resurfacing finished there on Monday. 

 

So nice to see the seperation and safe feeling of Kinzie.

And here's Erin's article from Monday's Redeye (did it run in the print version?)

 

http://neighborhoods.redeyechicago.com/pilsen-uic/2011/11/14/lookin...

Funny, that's where I literally almost was struck on Saturday evening--because some douche tried to go around me and had to swerve back so he wouldn't take out a construction worker. Gotta love it...

Re: Elston - as of this morning, still no lane lines - the surface is nice and smooth.

I noticed this morning that the "protection" has been installed on Jackson east of Oakley, on teh Crane HS side, but not on the other side or west of Oakley.

Assuming the second picture is west of Oakley, I doubt they will put up bollards there. It is not a protected bike lane, but rather a buffered bike lane.

Otherwise, how would that parked car be able to pull out?

h' said:

[...] but not on the other side or west of Oakley.

Thanks, D., makes sense. I've only briefly experienced these things so far.

Is the more elaborate striping scheme pictured above going to be the new standard for new non-protected lanes?

Sort of?

They did a "slightly" buffered bike lane on 18th Street between Clark and State Streets. It's kind of dumb as they could have made a protected bike lane on that short stretch. See photo below. 

Slightly buffered bike lane

h' said:

Thanks, D., makes sense. I've only briefly experienced these things so far.

Is the more elaborate striping scheme pictured above going to be the new standard for new non-protected lanes?

Thanks, Steven.

Agree about that stretch (that there could have been bollards), although I think in all the years I've been riding 18th street east/west there was only one time I felt marginally unsafe in that block-- I was riding with a friend and there was some sort of gay event dominating the downtown (can't remember what it was) and someone from an SUV yelled something which made it obvious they thought they'd found themselves a vulnerable pair of gayssss to harrass (my friend has 4 kids . . .).  

As long as we get the protected lane over the bridge, the only place I feel unsafe on 18th between the lakefront and Western, I'll be happy.

Steven Vance said:

Sort of?

They did a "slightly" buffered bike lane on 18th Street between Clark and State Streets. It's kind of dumb as they could have made a protected bike lane on that short stretch. See photo below. 

Slightly buffered bike lane

h' said:

Thanks, D., makes sense. I've only briefly experienced these things so far.

Is the more elaborate striping scheme pictured above going to be the new standard for new non-protected lanes?

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