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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on November 10, 2011 at 7:56am

Nope. I asked, no one's answered yet. That might be because CDOT's spokesperson, Brian Steele, left CDOT last week and moved to CTA, where he started yesterday. 

 

I wonder what's going on with Elston - resurfacing finished there on Monday. 

h' said:

Hooray on 18th street!!!!!

Jackson has looked just like that for a month now. Any idea when the "protection" starts getting installed?

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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on November 10, 2011 at 8:12am

Thank you for the tip. It saves me a trip there.

Cameron Puetz said:

I rode it this morning and I they haven't even started roughing in the lane lines yet, so my guess is that it will be awhile.

Steven Vance said: 

I wonder what's going on with Elston - resurfacing finished there on Monday. 

 

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Permalink Reply by Juan 2-3 or more mi. on November 10, 2011 at 12:57pm

So nice to see the seperation and safe feeling of Kinzie.

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Permalink Reply by Meg Matthews on November 16, 2011 at 3:04am

Funny, that's where I literally almost was struck on Saturday evening--because some douche tried to go around me and had to swerve back so he wouldn't take out a construction worker. Gotta love it...

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Permalink Reply by Gopher Biker on November 16, 2011 at 3:07am

Re: Elston - as of this morning, still no lane lines - the surface is nice and smooth.

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on December 12, 2011 at 3:09am

Assuming the second picture is west of Oakley, I doubt they will put up bollards there. It is not a protected bike lane, but rather a buffered bike lane.

Otherwise, how would that parked car be able to pull out?

h' said:

[...] but not on the other side or west of Oakley.

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Permalink Reply by Steven Vance on December 12, 2011 at 4:35am

Sort of?

They did a "slightly" buffered bike lane on 18th Street between Clark and State Streets. It's kind of dumb as they could have made a protected bike lane on that short stretch. See photo below. 

h' said:

Thanks, D., makes sense. I've only briefly experienced these things so far.

Is the more elaborate striping scheme pictured above going to be the new standard for new non-protected lanes?

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on December 12, 2011 at 8:21am

+1 Howard.  

Personally, and not being at either of the ends of the 8-80 spectrum, the most-needed infrastructure is at the bridges and under/over-passes of the expressways where the road width  is usually pinched down but inexplicably there are EXTRA lanes and almost zero safe area to bike across.  Such areas are in a gross need for road diets.   This is made even worse by the fact that because of the geographical limitations of the river and expressways these are the ONLY places to cross these landmarks.   There are no other routes to avoid these dangerous spots and still get to the other side of them.

Nearly every bridge and over/underpass in the city should be subject to a road diet to contain no more than the number of lanes than that which the road generally has in that area, and the rest of the space over the bridge devoted to a protected bike lane.  

While 8-80 long-route protected bike lanes are a very worthy long-term goal -fixing the pinch-points which present the greatest danger and barriers to most riders should be just as high of a priority -as should maintenance of the existing line-markings of bike lanes and sharrows already built. 

h' said:

As long as we get the protected lane over the bridge, the only place I feel unsafe on 18th between the lakefront and Western, I'll be happy.

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