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I'm gonna go with them being assholes. They sure as hell sound like assholes.

Upon watching the video again it made me think of the old '70s Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah song. "from rags on down to riches...." It's sad that if she was indeed a tourist she will have the awful memory of how dangerous & heartless Chicago drivers are.

+1.  Needs fixing.

Eli said:

Last Sunday I was headed east on Monroe to the LFP and I saw a couple on Divvys right at the intersection of Monroe and LSD. They were clearly a little confused and were kind of going back and forth between some of the left lanes on Monroe, arguing about which lane to be in or which way to turn. My bike was loaded down with camping gear and the traffic was fast-moving so I ended up just getting off and walking it through the crosswalk to the path rather than trying to get into the middle (straight) lane on Monroe, and they ended up doing the same thing, but I can definitely see how you could get onto LSD there without realizing it. It doesn't look like an expressway; there are several traffic lights. There are no on/off ramps, just regular intersections. There are no concrete medians, guardrails, or grade separation. It looks busy, but no busier really than Michigan Avenue a block west, where plenty of people ride (and where, as far as I know, it's perfectly legal).

If you've driven in Chicago, you probably realize what you're getting into in this intersection, but if you're from out of town or a non-driver (both of which are surely more common among the Divvy ridership than the general population) I think it's an absolutely understandable mistake to make.

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