Cyclists Cheer Bike Proposals In North Branch Plan

GOOSE ISLAND — Cyclists are rolling with the proposals for a riverwalk bike path and for extending the 606 trail found in the latest draft of the North Branch Industrial Corridor Modernization Plan.

Among the proposals mentioned in the guidelines released over the weekend are connecting the popular 606 trail to the Lakefront Trail via Dickens Avenue, and perhaps extending it Downtown to Union Station and Metra's Ogilvie Center via the Cherry Avenue rail and foot bridge and Goose Island.

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Permalink Reply by Deni Mayer on March 30, 2017 at 7:31am

Has anyone seen a map of the proposed extensions? I'd love to see how the routing is planned (I'm a visual person and a map geek) for each one. I'm curious how they route it to get to Dickens.

Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on March 30, 2017 at 7:36am

There are plenty of maps here, starting on page 7: http://activetrans.org/sites/files/ChicagoRiverTrailActionPlan.pdf

Permalink Reply by Deni Mayer on March 30, 2017 at 1:21pm

I've seen that doc before, none of them give the detail I'm looking for.

Permalink Reply by Shawn Evans on March 30, 2017 at 8:44pm

It's in Zone 4. They want to 'improve' Cortland by adding a grade-separated bike path (so forget the 606 extension) which would go to Racine, then add a bike lane on Dickens. They obscure it with their yellow stickies, but there is a proposed 'on-street bikeway' on Dickens. There's also a proposed path on Belden. I guess these are supposed to be the east-west connections to the lakefront. These streets already exist. They're low traffic, one way streets with stop signs at Halsted. Why some people can't figure how to use them for biking without special paint on the street, I'll never know.

Permalink Reply by Alex Z on March 31, 2017 at 6:12am

What is the best route for this? I always just take Armitage.

Permalink Reply by Deni Mayer on March 31, 2017 at 7:02am

OK, so not really an extension. My daughter goes to school at Oscar Mayer (Belden & Clifton) and I often bike her there from the Gold Coast-ish area so I know Belden and Dickens well and take them to get to/from Lincoln Park. But from the 606 I hate Cortland so I'm hoping there is some design in the works for a solution to that leg of getting from the Bloomingdale Trail to the lakefront.

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