NATO and the LFP by McCormick Place?

So, I bike to work every day on the LFP from Hyde Park to Fullerton or thereabouts. I go right by McCormick Place every day and now this NATO thing has me paranoid that I'm going to have to plan to ride out of my way for several days in order to get to work. I figure worse case scenario I get off the path at 31st and ride up King Drive until I can get back on the path up by the Museum Campus. That's potentially an okay work around but I'm sure it'll add quite a few extra minutes to the ol' morning commute. Driving my car is likely to be a headache too, because I'd either get held up going by McCormick or I'd have to get to work by going over onto the Dan Ryan to bypass Lakeshore Drive south. Anyway, I sent an email to the city website set up to answer questions about the NATO summit and they essentially had no useful info on whether access to the path would be restricted or whether they would be issues with protesters blocking it, etc. I was told to sign up for some city website that sends out alerts on closures and such. Does anyone have any other info on possible closures or restrictions?

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Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on May 11, 2012 at 8:14am

MOTHERFUCKERS.

 

No brewpub ride that weekend then.

Permalink Reply by Lanterne Rouge on May 11, 2012 at 8:20am

Were you planning on doing one??? Post it up to the events page, man.

Permalink Reply by millenial removing Bernie tattoo on May 11, 2012 at 8:24am

Jim S said:

Were you planning on doing one??? Post it up to the events page, man.

 

 

I was just about going to post the North Side Brewpub ride on the 19th. It will have to wait until after Memorial Day.

Because, you see, its OK if someone hides a bomb in a bike and blows up a Metra the other 52 weekends a year, cause only a bunch of nobodies would be killt.

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 11, 2012 at 8:28am
Permalink Reply by Rich Evans on May 11, 2012 at 3:25pm

All of a sudden I'm liking my daily commute to O'Hare a lot more :).  

Permalink Reply by Rich Evans on May 11, 2012 at 3:27pm

Folders, too?

Liz said:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-metra-plans-t...

Looks like the 4 stations closest to McCormick will be closed and any bags larger than 15"x15"x4" will not be permitted, additionally no bikes or any other large bags will be allows. 

Permalink Reply by S on May 11, 2012 at 5:29pm

I think the folders will probably exceed the 15"x15"x4" limit.  That's barely big enough for a briefcase, most commuters coming in with a computer will probably get screwed by that restriction if they enforce it strictly

Rich Evans said:

Folders, too?

Liz said:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-metra-plans-t...

Looks like the 4 stations closest to McCormick will be closed and any bags larger than 15"x15"x4" will not be permitted, additionally no bikes or any other large bags will be allows. 

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 12, 2012 at 12:30am

Sounds like a good week for a city-wide strike.  Nobody come to work.  Stay home for the week...

But it won't happen.  

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on May 12, 2012 at 1:40am

I think that pretty much ALL folders will exceed that limit, and that wouldn't allow you to carry anything else, like clothing.

Yes, that limitation will keep most commuters from carrying their daily essentials.  It will definitely keep people from bringing their lunch to work, unless they bring something on the previous workday and store it in the frig.  Real nice.

I think that, plus the huge delays that you know will happen with searches, will pretty much guarantee that hardly anyone will be riding Metra on those days.  Perhaps someone's watched Source Code a few too many times.

S said:

I think the folders will probably exceed the 15"x15"x4" limit.  That's barely big enough for a briefcase, most commuters coming in with a computer will probably get screwed by that restriction if they enforce it strictly

Rich Evans said:

Folders, too?

Liz said:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-metra-plans-t...

Looks like the 4 stations closest to McCormick will be closed and any bags larger than 15"x15"x4" will not be permitted, additionally no bikes or any other large bags will be allows. 

Permalink Reply by Tim S on May 15, 2012 at 7:17am

so looking forward to this weekend even though it will keep me from sailing.

Permalink Reply by Liz on May 15, 2012 at 7:32am

Here's a link the trib put together of road closures. 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-nato-maps,...

Permalink Reply by Jeff Blumenthal on May 15, 2012 at 7:56am

I have checked to official security plan and the LFP goes through a defined area.  The plan mentions "allowed recreational use" but that appears to hold only for boat traffic in and out of Burnham Harbor and specifically mentions that passage may be halted for any reason.

Therefore, I would avoid the area and be inconvenienced rather than disappointed.  Disappointment can cause heightened emotions, heightened emotions can cause confrontations, confrontations will lead to arrest, arrest will be a real pain in the butt.  So avoid arrest and take the long way around.

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