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Traffic Calming and Connected Bike Lanes on Montrose Ave -Carry Forward Project from Cycle 4
On Montrose Avenue from Kostner to Pulaski there have been multiple documented instances of traffic collisions, complaints of reckless driving, and a continued high risk to residents of all ages in the neighborhood. Neighbors have filed multiple grievances over this stretch of road, especially the ongoing risk to our youngest and most vulnerable crossing Montrose in either direction on the way to school each morning.
Although a traffic study has been slated, we'd like to allot a portion of the neighborhood's menu money to implementing traffic calming solutions to this section of Montrose to ensure when recommendations come back from the Chicago Department of Transportation that we have the budget to act on them. Our hope would be at the bare minimum to have bike lanes and parking spaces painted on the street to prevent this stretch being used as a two lane highway, especially during the slated construction on the Kennedy. Bump-outs and protected bike lanes would be ideal.
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New bike infrastructure would be welcome. However, I do not like the recent trend to put the bike lane on the curb with parking on the left of the bike lane. This separates the bike traffic from car traffic but makes the overall experience more dangerous. The cars can't see the bikes so any intersection the chance of a car turning into a bike it can't see increases. Then the cars tend to try parking farther away from moving cars and end up parking in the bike lane (I've observed this on the Belmont bike lane - cars drive between the plastic markers or park on them). This also increases the chances of pedestrians walking into or blocking the bike lane. The net result is a bike lane that is less usable and more dangerous.
Even worse is where bike lanes are routed onto sidewalks - this degrades the quality of bike travel and increases the chances of bike/pedestrian interactions.
It'd be great if the protections covered the bridge over the kennedy and continued through the nasty intersection with Elston as well.
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