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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Conversation with Yuriy Faktorovich
We already spend one of the highest amounts per capita on police. It isn't working. Let's get people out on the streets and out of their gas guzzlers. How many car jacking are going to happen in pedestrian friendly zones? Violent crime and armed robbery when you can't get away in a car, good luck.
None of the money would be spent on police, there was a suggestion on FB that over 1600 cameras and motion detection lighting could be purchased with the funds. But you are saying a one way street will be a deterrent to these type of robberies? The will still be two sides of parking on Wood, could be walking to the bus.
"A Chicago man is recuperating at a local hospital after he was shot during a robbery in the city’s West Town neighborhood early Sunday morning. According to Chicago police, the 35-year-old man was walking to his vehicle in the 700 block of North Wood Street at approximately 12:30 a.m. when he was approached by a white sedan. A man then got out of that vehicle, pointed a gun at the victim and demanded his backpack. The suspect then shot the victim in the arm, and fled the scene with the backpack, according to police. The man sustained a gunshot wound to his arm during the robbery, and was taken to an area hospital, where he was listed in good condition."
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