Photo documentation of poor condition of new bike lanes from unexpected source...

Courtesy of Second City Cop:

http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/

(courtesy of Joe F on BCHI list)

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on February 13, 2013 at 12:06am

I'll take safe passage over rivers and expressways, reasonably rideable pavement, and protected bike lanes, please.

James BlackHeron said:

I second the need for safe-passage across the rivers and expressways. These tend to be awfully daunting to many riders and act like barriers to bike travel outside of isolated neighborhoods

To make things worse these bridges and over/underpasses tend to fall on Aldermanic boundaries which turns them into turf disputes or just ignored in general by said Aldermen. Add in the fact that many of these routes across the barriers are IDOT roads, which suffers from their famous anti-bike/pro-car bias, and we have a recipe for a lot more ghost bikes at each of these crossings, such as the the one at the meat-grinder intersection of Logan & Western and many more like it.

David P. said:

Oh, and safe bridge and river crossings. Sure, I like riding downtown from my office on Elston and Kinzie, but if I had those two things everywhere I'd give up all the other stuff. This is, to a degree, settling for 'good enough' but we're not Amsterdam and I'd love just the basics being right, please. Kthx.

Kevin C 4.1 mi said:

Me too.

David P. said:

I think I'd rather have good pavement everywhere than all the new bike lanes, PBLs, etc. I might just settle for non-shitty pavement.