Video where Kathy S notes in an interview that we were promised 25 miles of protected bike lanes the first year and we only have 6

I came across the above somewhere or ither about a week ago searching for something else (probably ROS coverage) and it kind of slipped away.

Anyone got a link?

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on May 23, 2012 at 7:19am

Do you mean Kathy Schubert?

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 23, 2012 at 9:08am

They promise a lot of things.  Welcome to the city of broad shrugging shoulders.  

We'll be lucky if we get 25 miles total at the rate we are going.  And they'll just pull out all the bollards when they are done anyhow.

Permalink Reply by Duppie on May 23, 2012 at 9:22am

A bunch of negative Nellys here...

CDOT just released their Streets for Cycling draft plan. That is good enough, isn't it? ;)

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 23, 2012 at 9:38am

Nice Graphic Duppie!

Notice the huge dead-zone/no-man's-land within Logan Square/Avondale at the Kennedy and the River.  It's like the Berlin Wall almost with no way across East/West.

If only there was an East-West corridor at around, hmmm, Roscoe maybe...

Permalink Reply by S on May 23, 2012 at 10:02am

What graphic are you referring to?  There doesn't seem to be major dead spaces when looking at the graphics on page 23 except for the one on the far south side.

James BlackHeron said:

Nice Graphic Duppie!

Notice the huge dead-zone/no-man's-land within Logan Square/Avondale at the Kennedy and the River.  It's like the Berlin Wall almost with no way across East/West.

If only there was an East-West corridor at around, hmmm, Roscoe maybe...

Permalink Reply by Duppie on May 23, 2012 at 10:09am

I did see an East-West corridor ("A Crosstown Bike Route") on what looks like Addison....


James BlackHeron said:

Nice Graphic Duppie!

Notice the huge dead-zone/no-man's-land within Logan Square/Avondale at the Kennedy and the River.  It's like the Berlin Wall almost with no way across East/West.

If only there was an East-West corridor at around, hmmm, Roscoe maybe...

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 23, 2012 at 10:34am

What's the next East/West Corridor to the South of Addison?

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 23, 2012 at 11:19am

If Diversey was made into a safe crossing I would just about cream myself. 

Permalink Reply by Gin on May 23, 2012 at 1:31pm

The Diversey/Logan crossing is on the map for improvement. Please keep emailing comments and suggestions  and/or posting to Chainlink and I can help get them to the team working on the plan. (disclosure--I am part of the team.) I hope the north and nothwest siders who could not make yesterday's meeting go to the downtown one. streetsforcycling2020@gmail.com

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on May 23, 2012 at 1:38pm

I'm dizzy with excitement.   I think I'm having a hot flash.  Best I sit down before I faint...


Gin said:

The Diversey/Logan crossing is on the map for improvement. Please keep emailing comments and suggestions  and/or posting to Chainlink and I can help get them to the team working on the plan. (disclosure--I am part of the team.) I hope the north and nothwest siders who could not make yesterday's meeting go to the downtown one. streetsforcycling2020@gmail.com

Permalink Reply by Gin on May 23, 2012 at 1:55pm

Also, emailing positive comments would be nice too. That will give the team a sense of what routes people are really excited about. Also, any support that can be documented always helps the cause in general. :)

Sorry to have been so quiet on this project. I feel very lucky to have been able to participate  to some extent in this project in an "official" capacity. I have not wanted to jeopardize my relationship with the project by talking out of turn as it were.

Permalink Reply by David on May 23, 2012 at 3:16pm

I see this thread has already been hijacked by the usual suspects, but on the original point, I never thought Rahm promised 25 miles each and every 12 month period, but rather 100 miles over the four years for an average of 25 a year.  

There wasn't much time last summer to get anything done, and not much serious street work gets done over the winter for obvious reasons, so I'd really say we should wait and see what happens over the summer before declaring the promise broken.  I think the promise will be broken, I suspect they're going to start calling the buffered lanes "protected".  But we'll see.  Either way, I certainly never thought they'd get 25 miles of protected lanes end before the end of this summer, there just wasn't time.

BTW, what's the six miles?  Does that include Elston and Lake?

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