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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"My thoughts: To be perfectly frank, when I first heard about this
proposal, it didn’t sound like a great use of resources to me. Even when
it had no bike way at all, this portion of Wood was a nice place to
bike, with relatively little car traffic, and stoplights or four-way
stop signs at every intersection. And back in 2014 the Chicago
Department of Transportation installed a Neighborhood Greenway treatment
on this stretch, including a contraflow (“wrong-way”) bike lane at the
north end of the corridor to allow for two-way riding on a one-way
block; bike-and-chevron markings; and bike boxes to give cyclists a
place to wait in front of stopped cars at stoplights. (That was almost
eight years ago? Time flies!) John Greenfield 01/21/2022 https://chi.streetsblog.org/2022/01/21/details-on-7-livable-streets-projects-that-won-funding-in-the-1st-ward-pb-election/
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