Did You Ride Downtown Today with all the NATO Stuff?

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on May 18, 2012 at 3:45pm

I got downtown by ~8 AM. Nothing was happening at that point. I was able to park my bike easier than usual because, I'm guessing, less people are commuting.

The streets were pretty festive around 1:00 PM when I went to the Nurse Rally.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on May 18, 2012 at 3:47pm

Fine.

Not a ghost town, but when I walked the block to the Daley Center for a 10:30 am call, I passed more police officers than civilians.

I was able to park my bike as usual, in it's usual spot.

On a more tragic note, a package from Amazon was turned away at the lobby of my building at 10:23 am. My building management apparently made the decision not to allow suspicious packages from Amazon.com until next Tuesday.

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Permalink Reply by Brendan Kevenides on May 18, 2012 at 4:55pm

I rode and it was quiet.  I even went to the rally at the Daley Center to check it out.  It was  peaceful.  

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Permalink Reply by Sue Clark on May 18, 2012 at 5:45pm

Ditto.

> I rode and it was quiet. I even went to the rally at the Daley Center to check it out. It was peaceful.

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Permalink Reply by Carrie Smith on May 18, 2012 at 10:05pm

I think this might have been the first day my commute up the lakefront was more eventful than downtown. I wasn't quite prepared for the giant concrete barriers that had been installed under the pedestrian bridge all the way down by 31st this morning, but by the time I got to the obstacle course of iron fencing and barriers up by Museum Campus it was kind of fun. 

Downtown was pretty empty when I got to work. I work on LaSalle near the Board of Trade and usually the bike racks in front of my building are pretty full, but I was the only one this morning.  The best part of the day, by far, was getting in the elevator to head up to my office (still in my bike shorts and carrying my helmet under my arm) and having a short older businessman in ill-fitting jeans turn to me to say "Well, we sure look like the 99% today, don't we?" like I had come up with the best disguise ever. 

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 18, 2012 at 10:17pm

hilarious!!!
Carrie Smith said

The best part of the day, by far, was getting in the elevator to head up to my office (still in my bike shorts and carrying my helmet under my arm) and having a short older businessman in ill-fitting jeans turn to me to say "Well, we sure look like the 99% today, don't we?" like I had come up with the besdisguise ever. 

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Permalink Reply by John Wirtz on May 19, 2012 at 7:04am

I rode in.  I didn't notice any difference, but my office is west of the river, so less going on over there.  I did see a few cops standing around at Michigan & Oak on the way home.

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Permalink Reply by S on May 19, 2012 at 10:14pm

Rode through on the way back from the bike wash and it was pretty quiet although I was going down wells.    Based on the news reports I went through the loop just as things were heating up so things may be really different now.

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