PB 1st Ward 2021
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Wood St (Ellen - Grand)
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$325,000
67 votes
Reference: -PROJ-2021-11-17
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Wood St is a designated bike route in Chicago's bike plan. This proposal would upgrade bike infrastructure from Chicago Ave. to Ellen St. by adding protected two-way bike lanes for a full mile on this street. Wood would be changed from two-way to one-way (northbound) to accommodate these bike lanes and preserve residential parking.
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Wood is the only street that allows traffic in both directions besides Paulina to the East and the only viable alternative to Ashland and Damen. Closing one lane is shortsighted and ignores the fact the this road provides two way traffic to the businesses on both ends from Milwaukee to Grand.
I have lived at Erie and Wood, and have not seen enough bicycle traffic to warrant spending this type of money on a problem that doesn’t exist. We also own a business on Hubbard that Wood feeds into from Wicker park.
If you are looking to make a dedicated one way street more accessible to two way bicycle traffic, Wolcott is a better alternative.
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