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Originally Posted by gandalf612
Lmao sorry but narrow streets are awesome and much much safer for everyone. Why would you need to go faster on a two block long road? Not to mention that the road circles a park extensively used by children, slow speeds should be encouraged and the single most effective way of doing that is by making the street narrow. And because the road encourages such low speeds, it's safe for cyclists to share the road without widening it, which makes it easier for pedestrians to cross. We should have more streets like it, all the streets through Millennium/grant park would benefit from such a design, route all the traffic onto Roosevelt and lower Columbus
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Adding a bike lane/parking lane would make these roads unsafe? I never said I wanted traffic to go faster on these roads, I simply said that these very narrow streets without parking lanes did not resemble typical Chicago residential side streets. I also said it was not a major problem, more of an observation. If safety is such a concern, by all means add speed humps every 15 feet. Not that it matters, since the roadways will not be getting a redesign anytime soon.
And I am all for reducing, if not outright removing all the streets in Grant Park. I could see why removing Columbus would be difficult since it is such a large traffic distributor, which in that case tunneling under the park would be great, although fiscally impractical. Monroe, Jackson, Balbo and Ida B Wells Dr. (west of Congress Plaza Drive) should be entirely removed (except for short sections of Monroe and Jackson that would be needed for access/service drives to the Art Institute).