Woman spotted riding Divvy Rental Bike on Dan Ryan

Seriously. How does one end up on the Dan Ryan?

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/woman-spotted-riding-divvy-r...

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Permalink Reply by BootsyC on October 15, 2014 at 8:50am

I passed her heading SB on Saturday, but she had given up riding and was standing on the small left shoulder holding her bike.  She looked like she was relaxing to be perfectly honest.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 15, 2014 at 9:17am

Wow! Hard to imagine how one could end up there. A few times I've seen Divvy riders WB on Congress near the start of the Ike, but they've always turned off at the last minute.

Permalink Reply by Haddon on October 15, 2014 at 1:08pm

I don't understand how people take bikes onto the highway. There is a video around of a woman from a year or two ago and that's the only one I have heard of (though both were Divvy so we have to presume far less experienced riders).  So its incredibly rare.  And I don't understand how one, accidentally ends up there.  It's not like there are many places where it looks like the logical thing to do.  Well, now that I think about it just north of Navy Pier you could make a wrong turn but other than that it escapes me.

Permalink Reply by Haddon on October 15, 2014 at 3:25pm

I forgot to add as I intended to put it on all my posts and responses, my apologies:

For responders with nothing but snark: If your life is so sad you derive pleasure from being insulting I feel sorry for you as do most other people. Rather than being a detractor find something interesting and post it, you'll feel better about yourself and other people will like you more. Thanks, Haddon.

Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on October 15, 2014 at 4:42pm
Very classy rwein5 ! Very! http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20140710/bucktown/cyclist-escorted-f...

A similar situation happened in July.
Permalink Reply by Doug Haynes on October 15, 2014 at 4:50pm

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...


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.

Permalink Reply by Haddon on October 15, 2014 at 5:03pm

I'm sure this was posted before but it's of the moment, if this was me I'd be terrified.

Permalink Reply by Thomas Bruzan on October 16, 2014 at 4:14am

Riding in the suburbs is often much more dangerous than the Dan Ryan with its nice shoulder.

Permalink Reply by JMinHP on October 16, 2014 at 4:25am

Is there a petition I can sign somewhere to get rid of the highway names? I can never keep them straight! Dan Ryan, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Stevenson, Bishop Ford, Jane Adams, Ronald Reagan, Tri-State, Veterans Memorial, Kingery.... Did I miss any? Ugh.

Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 16, 2014 at 4:36am

And in parts of the city with heavy truck traffic where there are no bike friendly alternatives.

Thomas Bruzan said:

Riding in the suburbs is often much more dangerous than the Dan Ryan with its nice shoulder.

Permalink Reply by Rich S on October 16, 2014 at 4:37am

It looks like the section she's on has a really narrow shoulder. 2-3 feet from what I can tell in the pic. It would be really scary to have a semi pass on that shoulder. I believe a cyclist was killed riding on the Dan Ryan a couple years ago but it was at night. 

Thomas Bruzan said:

Riding in the suburbs is often much more dangerous than the Dan Ryan with its nice shoulder.

Don't forget about the Edens!  :)

JM 6.5 said:

Is there a petition I can sign somewhere to get rid of the highway names? I can never keep them straight! Dan Ryan, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Stevenson, Bishop Ford, Jane Adams, Ronald Reagan, Tri-State, Veterans Memorial, Kingery.... Did I miss any? Ugh.

Permalink Reply by Haddon on October 16, 2014 at 10:00am

I'll second this.  Living downtown and in the south burbs there were plenty of times when it got unnerving out in suburbia. Partly it's because city drivers are usually on high alert, there is no telling when people/bike/baby  carriages will come out of nowhere.  In the burbs people just floor it and there were plenty of roads I had to constantly take where there wasn't any sidewalk and no shoulder at all. Whole routes had to be planned to take into account the miles of roads with no bike accommodation at all.

And not decent sight-line straight lines like down town but plenty of curves that would obscure the cyclist.  Biking on Halstead downtown is a bit white knuckled , in the burbs it's basically the same as driving on the highway or worse.

Thomas Bruzan said:

Riding in the suburbs is often much more dangerous than the Dan Ryan with its nice shoulder.

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