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Permalink Reply by Jose A. Terrazas on September 27, 2013 at 4:58am

Thank you Dan! You did an amazing job.

I could not  stop thinking about the meeting while at work. The scheduling could have been better.

   

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Permalink Reply by Shirlee Berman on September 27, 2013 at 6:07am

The Chicago/Grand community meeting held last week about the BRT plan for Ashland was similarly disappointing.  It sounds like the Ashland meeting gave more residents a chance to talk, but in general I feel like CDOT and CTA are not going into these community forums with the goal of responding to residents' concerns and dispelling myths one by one, and speaking with conviction about why decisions were made and the trade-offs considered. This is making residents feeling like they're talking to a wall, and unfortunately they are. There is so much good information to be shared, but the officials in these meetings need to step up their game.

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Permalink Reply by Shirlee Berman on September 27, 2013 at 6:22am

18 cyclists per rush hour period per day?  Does that mean 36 rush hour cyclists per day after a year?  Sounds like the cost of the bike lane outweighs the benefit in this case.  There's got to be a better way to slow down traffic in key areas near schools.

Well, I'm not a resident, and have never ridden in the neighborhood.  Gonna get off the internets and find this lane and ride it today.  It's beautiful outside.

Dan Korn said:

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One guy complained about part of CDOT's plan to open up more parking spaces by converting some spaces that are currently permit-only.  Multiple folks talked about how they never see very many cyclists riding in the bike lanes (though CDOT had posted a slide with bike counts, something like 18 cyclists in each rush hour period for a day last month)

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