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Permalink Reply by MagMileMarauder on January 15, 2019 at 5:47pm

I ride on the street side when it's congested, but yeah, useless design and the typical zero awareness of pedestrians are the norm.

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Permalink Reply by Gage B. on January 15, 2019 at 6:36pm

Is anyone aware if CDOT reads thechainlink?

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Permalink Reply by Phillip Hutchinson on January 17, 2019 at 4:22am

Agree that this current bike-lane-on-sidewalk configuration doesn't work. I don't ride through here often, but every time I do I see cyclists just riding in the street, and pedestrians standing in the bike lane on the sidewalk. Some motorists get super aggressive towards cyclists when they have their "own lane" and aren't using it. 

I do see how the designers were kind of boxed in on this one. The viaduct structure prevents any widening or reconfiguration of the roadway. The right lane could be converted into a bike-only lane, but I'm sure IDOT (which has jurisdiction on Randolph) probably dismissed that idea since it would only leave 2 thru-lanes. 

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on January 17, 2019 at 6:08am

Lately made more challenging to navigate with the homeless person camped out at the end on the sidewalk near Clinton.

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Permalink Reply by V W on January 17, 2019 at 11:08am

The canal/randolph intersection gets all the (well deserved) hate but can we give a little attention to the clusterf*ck where it spits you out at clinton and randolph? Good luck getting through the spot where the bike lane ends and merges into the street, without some difficulty. Bikers on the clinton bike lane who are waiting at the light pull all the way up past the line where they're supposed to queu up, blocking your path where the bike lane on randolph ends. Also blocking your path- pedestrians walking down clinton (waiting to cross randolph), congregating right on top of the bike lane, who always seem surprised to see bikes being spit out of the dark tunnel. You also have a homeless individual who set up camp, blocking the entire sidewalk so that pedestrians have to walk around him and into the bike lane. Also once you navigate around all of that you're now veering to avoid the parked cars and squeeze into fast moving traffic with drivers aggressively trying to zoom their way onto the highway.

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