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You know the intersections, you try to stay away, but sometimes it's on your route and you have to go that way. I present an example: Going west on Logan Blvd, passing under the highway (at Western) you have a blind turn and two narrow lanes. You also have motorists that tend to move too quickly. This is an important bike corridor that has this one area that can make a trip unsafe. I ask the chainlink community for suggestions about the best way to implement change. I admit my current choice is to usually wimp out and ride on the sidewalk by the skatepark until I hit the outer boulevard. Maybe this forum could also serve as a voicing for what those options/improvements could be. 

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I'll take-the-lane when heading west, with one eye looking behind me and both ears open.

I ride through this dangerous pinch-point under the kennedy and then the metra tracks nearly ever day.

Like thepuppies said it isn't too bad going Eastbound but I refuse to ride on the road going Westbound.  With the curve, the narrow lanes and the metal guardrail it isn't safe.  It's beyond unsafe and is a veritable death-trap.  

I don't feel safe in that righthand lane going Westbound in my CAR and stay out of it.  It's not much safer in the left-hand lane as often a car in the right-hand lane looses their sense of where the lane is and pushes into the left.  I've been pushed over the center-lane into the oncoming lane on more than one occasion and luckily there wasn't anyone using it so there wan't a collision.  I've also been in the right-hand lane when a car lost their bearings and came over and I don't know why there wasn't metal to metal contact as there couldn't have been more than a mm or two between both our two cars and the guardrail.

Hell no am I going to ride along that guardrail on my bike.  Car drivers are just not skilled enough and my legs and my life mean too damn much to me to risk them to some stupid texing idiot

I take the sidewalk going Westbound from the Western intersection all the way until Logan becomes a proper bouulevard again.  It's just no worth it.  The sdewalk is wide and open and if there are any peds they can literally be gven a 6-foot berth when they are passed slowly.  The only bad spot is where the painted "LOOK" sign is where the sidewalk is only 3-feet wide going by the column that holds up the metra bridge.  I go at litererallly 1MPH and am ready to stop and get off if there are any peds.

I think that the city should just make this a bike path off the road or cut down Logan to 2 lanes under the bridges before it goes to 4 lanes.  It is 1 lane further East so it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference if it was 1 lane under the bridges too. 

Why does Logan need two driving lanes in each direction between Western and Milwaukee?  Diversey is a much busier street and it only has one driving lane in each direction.

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