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At 3:22 the streets in the loop look ok from 17 floors up.  What's it like on the street?  Last report I heard said 1 in/hour at the start of rush traffic.  Careful riding home.

Riding in the west suburbs sucked. But I loved the slow pace of traffic.
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Wheeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

It's a mess out there. I only got to ride 1/3 of the way home. After seeing two accidents on Lincoln (heading south from Pratt to Berwyn), I decided to walk safely on the sidewalk. Lincoln was in terrible shape. I was only able to ride Berwyn/Balmoral/Ravenswood. 

So fucking pissed right now.

Came out of the office at 4:15 to discover my bike had gotten coated in ice.  Madison west out of the loop was fine aside from the bridge (walked it).  Halsted heading south was fine in the car lanes but they hadn't plowed the bike lane, so I took the right lane which pissed off a few jerks that were in a hurry to get stuck in gridlock from Roosevelt going south.  18th going west was fine.  A little dicey but nothing crazy and no serious ice until my little side street.  

Yeah, the trick isn't you, it's the other drivers.   Sounds like we take a similar route, Jim.  I'm coming from Touhy/Central, and I basically stick to the side streets other than Bryn Mawr from the Sauganash Trail to Campbell.  I love Berwyn in the morning, but man getting across Western/Lincoln going back east around there is a pain.  They need a bike overpass over Rosehill or a contra-flow bike lane on Berwyn.

Anyway, other than the cager accidents, how were the side streets?

PS: Gene, you're riding a 'bent in this?  Hard core, man, hard core.  You have fat tires on that, or do you just slide around a lot?

Jim S said:

It's a mess out there. I only got to ride 1/3 of the way home. After seeing two accidents on Lincoln (heading south from Pratt to Berwyn), I decided to walk safely on the sidewalk. Lincoln was in terrible shape. I was only able to ride Berwyn/Balmoral/Ravenswood. 

Madopal, we're coming from basically the same place. I'm @ Touhy and Melvina (ish).

If I could find a route in the winter that lets me avoid Lincoln, I'd do it. So if you've got some suggestions, I'm all ears.

Most side streets were fine, though according to the WGN weather blog, close to the lake (which I am) is getting hammered (3.5-4" as of 4:30PM).

In times like these, I have no problem taking the lane; it's mostly that I'm afraid that other drivers will make a slight slide, or I may hit bump or something and go sliding around. Very scary.

Not too bad. I didn't encounter any ice, just slush. Even the plates on the Randolph bridge didn't feel icy. For the most part, cars were traveling slowly and focused on the gridlock at hand. I passed way more cars than passed me.

It was a dicey start but took Division from Orleans ST to California and through the park a little. A driver decided to honk at me when I passed him. Probably annoyed that I cut in front of him, buttttttt the thing was he was at a stand still with the rest of traffic. made no sense... sigh.... either way first time commuting through rush hour traffic while it snowed. took getting used too. A lot slower but it wasn't bad.

I don't know why so many of you think it's fun to ride to work in the snow because it's not. 12 mile ride home from work today sucked.

I WAS going to ride the trail today to check out the snow, unfortunately I saw a potential of ice under snow develop quickly as the temps dropped. I stood down. Good move.

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