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Protected bike lane for Elston Ave - Carry forward Project from Cycle 4
Elston Avenue is a main diagonal artery that bicyclists take everyday to get to work. It provides easy access for residents to bike to neighborhoods like Logan Quare, Wicker Park, Irving Park, etc..
Converting Elston's bike lanes in both directiosn into protected one-way bike lanes will save lives and encourage more people to use the bike lanes. The vast majority of Chicago's bicycle crow does not use these lanes, because it is just too dangerous to bike on them today.
It would mean, we move the bike lanes right next to the sidewalk and move the car parking into the street. Today, it is set up in the opposite manner.
This has already been done on Milwaukee Avenue - another diagonal street that a lot of bikers use - https://chicagocompletestreets.org/streets/bikeways/barrier-protected-bike-lanes/
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I think that this is extremely important especially on a road such as Elston which I use every day to get to work. At the end of the day bicycles should be less treated as "vehicles" and more as pedestrians on wheels. If someone proposed having pedestrians walk in the street it would be considered ludicrous, therefore bicycles should be separated from vehicular traffic as much as possible as well.
Secondly, Elston is extremely important for cycling in the city of Chicago becuase it is a diagonal street with connections to many other popular bike routes (notably: Milwaukee, Dickens Greenway, and the 606 trail). Increasing the connectivity of protected bike infrastructure enables more people, of all ages and abilities to comfortably and safely access more of the city. We should judge cycling infrastructure by whether or not you would feel safe enough letting your child or elderly parent ride on a given stretch of road alone, and should always be striving for that to be a larger area.
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