Not really the thread for this discussion, but the best thing I can say about Red Line Extension is that maybe it creates an appetite for more transit expansions after 3 decades of nothing. And seeing the big gantry putting up the new Red Line viaduct in Edgewater has created some genuine excitement too - people are happy to see big things being done for transit instead of just more highways. If only our leaders would take note and put forward a big transit package like LA/Seattle/Denver, or what SF is gearing up for.
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Originally Posted by west-town-brad
never never never never never would I just look one way before crossing a one way street. the way people driver here.... no chance.
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Obviously you glance the other way, but you don't have to actively monitor two directions of traffic like a Frogger game.
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Originally Posted by gandalf612
Except drivers are without exception idiots
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I'm with you so far. I travel a lot for work and Chicago drivers seem uniquely aggressive and impatient compared to drivers on both coasts. The Midwest and South are really the worst car culture.
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and they cannot be trusted to know which way the one way cross streets go, and end up turning from middle lanes, stopping awkwardly in the middle of the intersection, running red light because there space in an adjacent lane past the intersection. There's a quite popular Twitter account that's almost entirely videos from a one way street intersection downtown that a guy takes out his window while WFH. I'll try and remember the username, when you see the videos you'll very quickly take back your claim of less chaos.
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All of these things happen at regular 4-way intersections too. Shitty aggro drivers don't magically get better in the presence of oncoming traffic.