TELL GOV. QUINN: Don't put the brakes on protected bike lanes and safer streets!

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Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on February 11, 2013 at 2:54pm

I'd add a few more. 18th street bridge. Elston.

But am extremely frustrated with what's happened on the west side.

 

Kevin C 4.1 mi said:

My benchmark for progress is, on balance, "no less safe than it was before." In my subjective assessment, this has only been achieved once-with the Kinzie bike lane, and I still believe there are aspects of that project which have resulted in "less safe than it was before." If I were a proponent of protected bike lanes (and I most certainly am not), I would be more concerned with the powers that be getting them right. They are very high profile infrastructure projects which have polarized transportation factions. If these projects don't get used because they are poorly designed, constructed or maintained, they are going to be very public failures, and that will result in greater difficulty in constructing better ones in the future.

Thunder Snow said:

Done. Now Kevin, don't let the desire for perfection prevent any progress at all.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on February 11, 2013 at 6:12pm

Done.

Proud to be a cycling sheep ;)

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Permalink Reply by william on February 11, 2013 at 6:15pm

signed.

I support the construction of PBLs 100%.

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Permalink Reply by Agnieszka Z. on February 11, 2013 at 10:27pm

On it. 

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Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on February 12, 2013 at 9:49am

Bump

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Permalink Reply by Mike Zumwalt on February 12, 2013 at 10:26am

I agree in part that they don't maintain them so they are not usable and again the amount of salt they put down on Kinzie after the last round of minor snow made my bike rust as I rode on it.
Protected lanes are kind of saying we belong somewhere else because we're not really traffic but then have to abide by the same rules.?

With CTA fares going up, the city/state in a budget crisis just spend the money on painting the existing lanes.
Kevin C 4.1 mi said:

Shouldn't the form letter to Gov. Quinn contain at least some language to the effect that the Chicago Department of Transportation and Active Trans reserve the right to continue to recommend and install poorly designed, hastily constructed bike lanes over broken and irregular pavement, and maintain and/or plow it sporadically, secure in the knowledge that the Chicago cycling sheep community will uniformly embrace it as "progress?" 

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Permalink Reply by Michelle S on February 13, 2013 at 7:43am

Of course we want to do the bike lanes right, but isn't that what the NACTO people already did; study the best practices and come up with standards that we can follow? I don't know all the details about how these things work, but it seems unnecessary to only look at other Chicago streets when there are plenty of similar facilities already installed elsewhere in North America, like New York, Montreal, and Long Beach.

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