How the Lakefront Trail should be...

 

This is Virginia Beach. It's how the LFP should be, only with wider bike lanes. The LFP is a victim of it's own success and We, The People, of Chicago, need to get our heads around the idea of a radical remodel. Such a remodel would be necessarily expensive, but hey the LFP is that popular the remodel would surely be worth it, huh? Yes, it surely would!

I originally posted this as a reply to the 'Death of a Cyclist' discussion, but on reflection, I think the Virginia Beach model deserves a discussion of it's own.

 

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Permalink Reply by Austin Goodman on August 19, 2011 at 11:14am
That's is how it should be for sure!
Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on August 19, 2011 at 11:32am

Daniel G said:

 May as well toss a few horses in the mix. Why the hell not, really.

 

Here's Lake Shore Drive in 1910.  Looks pretty nice to me.

 

 

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on August 19, 2011 at 11:33am
Horses are delicious.
Permalink Reply by Carter O'Brien on August 19, 2011 at 2:17pm

Here's a pretty good reason.  Explains why automobile use skyrocketed as well.

 

http://www.fathom.com/feature/121636/

 

Horse-driven infrastructure

At the turn of the nineteenth century, New York City's infrastructure relied upon disease-creating entities such as the horse. Between 100,000 and 200,000 horses lived in the city at any given time. Each one of those horses gave off 24 pounds of manure and several quarts of urine a day.

The vast majority of city horses were not elegant animals who pulled carriages and lived in stables near the homes of the wealthy; most were big workhorses who did all the hauling--pulling wagons loaded with goods from the shore. Big teams of workhorses powered the city's horse-driven street trolley system. The limited range and speed of these trolleys were one reason everyone lived below 57th Street. Horses are very inefficient in terms of moving people--especially atop big, heavy trolleys. Horses get tired, hungry and thirsty. They also drop dead. The average life span of a horse in New York City in the 1860s and '70s was a meager two and a half years. They were literally worked to death.


Thunder Snow said:


Daniel G said:

 May as well toss a few horses in the mix. Why the hell not, really.

 

Here's Lake Shore Drive in 1910.  Looks pretty nice to me.

 

 

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