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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 want to agree with other commenters that the main concerns of cyclists not being visible in the current protected bike lanes is not because cyclists are separated from traffic but because other parked cars are blocking other drivers view. The solution is not to make the bike lanes more dangerous, but to make intersections safer for bikes and pedestrians by reducing parking and other obstructions around intersections (ex: https://nacto.org/publication/dont-give-up-at-the-intersection/protected-intersections/). This solution above is obvious to anyone thinking critically about the problem of road safety, and arguing for reducing cycling infrastructure (instead of how to actually make our roads safer) is not arguing in good faith for safer roads.
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