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Permalink Reply by Marc A. Irwin on October 16, 2014 at 11:16am

notoriousDUG said:

I dunno, I think it would become pretty obviously pretty quickly that you are not headed where a bike should be.

Common sense and all that...

There's your mistake.  Common Sense has become so rare it's been reclassified a superpower. Buy yourself a cape and mask.

rwein5 said:

Thank you Haddon for that insightful word diarrhea.

I think it's perfectly reasonable that any random tourist who's never been here before to accidentally end up on a place like LSD. Think of an intersection like Roosevelt and LSD where there's a bike lane that runs east virtually right up to the drive. It'd be rather simple to be following Roosevelt east and get spit out onto LSD without ever recognizing the ped/bike underpass system - especially if you've spent mere days or hours here. The same example could be applied to a vast host of E/W streets that have on ramps to LSD.

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on October 16, 2014 at 11:30am

The thing I like most about Newbie cyclists like Divvy riders is it makes drivers even more aware of bicycle riders as road users.

It is that they ride in places I would hardly ever attempt to traverse having been conditioned to what roads to take due to the aggression displayed by motorists.

It's like they are pure cycling souls taking whatever path seems fit.

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Permalink Reply by Fran Kondorf on October 16, 2014 at 11:49am

I like to believe that I'm still in touch with my "pure cycling soul", as you put it.

But I also think that anyone found riding on any XPWAY around here must be a few links short of their chain.

Juan 2-8 mi. said:

The thing I like most about Newbie cyclists like Divvy riders is it makes drivers even more aware of bicycle riders as road users.

It is that they ride in places I would hardly ever attempt to traverse having been conditioned to what roads to take due to the aggression displayed by motorists.

It's like they are pure cycling souls taking whatever path seems fit.

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Permalink Reply by David of the North (David606xx) on October 17, 2014 at 6:21am

How's the saying go? "god looks out for drunks and little kids" and now Divvy riders are on the list.

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on October 18, 2014 at 8:35am

Yes! the Mass did enter that parking lot before the days when we had fellow copsicles monitoring our need to fill every ridable piece of asphalt :)

clp said:

If the Dan Ryan Expressway is a "parking lot," and the Divvy rider can move through the traffic jam, then the stationary drivers become even MORE aware of the benefits of biking and Divvy.

Didn't the entire Chicago Critical Mass pack enter and bike along a section of the Dan Ryan one month?

Juan 2-8 mi. said:   ...it makes drivers even more aware of bicycle riders as road users...they ride in places I would hardly ever attempt...It's like they are pure cycling souls...

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