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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
How Can Chicago Fix the “Weak Links” That Mar Bike Access Downtown?
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Haha, this is on my commute home. The problem with the bike lane is it's on the wrong side. It should be on the right. What you see in the photo is the bike lane aligned besides one of the busiest turn areas in River North. Making a left will take you to a freeway. The cars bunch up so the lane to right of the bicycle lane gets used as left also. Drivers are normally courteous to cyclists here, but it's just too congested and I can't think of anything that will solve it unless they signal it special or something.
I've talked to many people on this and we think that maybe the city put it on the left side of Dearborn entirely by accident, as there is not a single rational reason why it's there, and many reasons why it should be on the right. But the damage is done. They put the cycle track on the left side of Dearborn (oops) so a crossover would be impossible to correct the bike lane north of the river.