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Permalink Reply by Samuel Diaz on April 25, 2012 at 4:24pm

By 51st and Hamlin

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on April 26, 2012 at 9:34am

At the risk of saying something like "you can't get there from here" there is no good alternative to Archer. It is a huge problem that access to/from huge swaths of the southwest side is dependent on Archer which is a terrible street for biking.

You might want to try residential streets over to California, take that up* to Ogden to Roosevelt. At least Roosevelt has some bike lanes I think.

* getting over the expressway and the river is super unpleasant pretty much anywhere west of Western.

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Permalink Reply by Allen Wrench on April 26, 2012 at 4:13pm

Loomis is a good route north to UIC (over river, under expressway) from Archer, better than Ashland though a little longer, comes before Halsted. You can switch to Blue Island in Pilsen to cut off a corner if you're going to the east campus. Morgan is also good. I don't think there's a good alternative to Archer even though it's bad.

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Permalink Reply by Samuel Diaz on April 26, 2012 at 5:47pm

yeah that damn river and all those factories that are by it make it hard to find a good route

Tony Adams said:

At the risk of saying something like "you can't get there from here" there is no good alternative to Archer. It is a huge problem that access to/from huge swaths of the southwest side is dependent on Archer which is a terrible street for biking.

You might want to try residential streets over to California, take that up* to Ogden to Roosevelt. At least Roosevelt has some bike lanes I think.

* getting over the expressway and the river is super unpleasant pretty much anywhere west of Western.

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Permalink Reply by MagMileMarauder on April 26, 2012 at 6:04pm

51st west to Halsted, and then north to UIC sounds pretty good.

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