606 the new LFP

I live just off the 606.  I'm amazed at how much foot and bicycle traffic has increased in front of my place.  At this point I'm assuming the 606 traffic has probably more or less baselined now that we're a month out.  

It's almost like the lakefront path.  All forms of people, and you can't really go too fast, although some people try.  One couple with a stroller will pretty much take up a whole side.  

It's interesting too...  There seem to be the same traffic congestions problems on the 606 that we see on the lakefront path.  I guess the nice thing is that it never intersects streets, so for almost 3 miles you don't have to negotiate an intersection- unlike the LFP.

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Permalink Reply by Aaron Bussey on July 8, 2015 at 7:21am

Is the 606 the Bloomingdale Trail?

Permalink Reply by Rich S on July 8, 2015 at 7:22am

Yes but calling it the 606 is akin to calling the Sears Tower by the name of Willis. 

Permalink Reply by Aaron Bussey on July 8, 2015 at 7:32am

Whatcyou talking bout Willis?

Permalink Reply by Aaron Bussey on July 8, 2015 at 7:36am

Another Lake front path yet sans lake it is just another bike path to avoid.  Bikes belong.

I'll stick to Armitage and avoid the 606, Bloomingdale, pathway, bikebridge, westside bike waylopilos.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on July 8, 2015 at 8:05am

Ha!

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on July 8, 2015 at 8:05am

Technically, the trail itself is the Bloomingdale and the whole system of trail and adjacent parks is the 606.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 8, 2015 at 8:00pm
Hey Eddie, yeah, we've all been warned around here. Yeah, more constructive, defined: Constructive- helping to improve, promoting further development or advancement (as opposed to destructive). Okay Eddie, I hope this helps a little. Or there is the sayin that goes, "if you don't got nothin good to say". . . . . .
Permalink Reply by David Lieb on July 9, 2015 at 3:55am

Darn it, I feel left out! How do I go about getting warned so I can feel like one of the kool kids?

Permalink Reply by David P. on July 9, 2015 at 8:40am

It's been a while since I've been on the High Line, but I'd say that the high line is more architecturally interesting and has a more, let's say, interactive relationship with its neighboring buildings. There are more visual discoveries that obscure and reveal themselves as you walk along. It is restricted to pedestrians only. There is at least one ADA-compliant lift access point. The Bloomingdale Trail is plainer and more functional. I'm not sure whether there is much difference in width between the two, but the High Line has lower stress potential because everyone is walking.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 9, 2015 at 12:14pm
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20150707/humboldt-park/love-on-bloo...
Article by: Alisa Hauser

The 606 may be a good meeting spot for the 'lonely hearts'. Just don't be a 'creepy heart'.
Permalink Reply by Jim Freeman on July 10, 2015 at 6:24am

I guess the interesting thing to me is that the 606 gets so much recreational travel.  There are people all the time who park in front of my house and then go to the 606.  I take from this that there are a lot of people who are coming from other places to recreate on the 606. 

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on July 10, 2015 at 5:51pm
If they tore it down to ground level and just made it into a street, would that make you people any happier? The cost would have been substantially high just to level it also. Did you like the abandoned weed & brush train tracks where people trespassed just to walk, ride & run on it ?

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