- LAKE SHORE DRIVE CHICAGO TRAFFIC DRIVERS
- LAKE SHORE DRIVE CHICAGO TRAFFIC DRIVER
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Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Dozens of cars used the trail to avoid backups on northbound DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Point visitor Eric Allix Rogers said. Credit: Eric Allix Rogers A line of cars turns off the Lakefront Trail at Promontory Point as pedestrians and cyclists enter the trail Wednesday evening.
“The city is convening people to talk about safe, alternative modes of transportation, and I certainly hope that will be part of this conversation,” Rogers said. Seventeen pedestrians and five cyclists have been killed this year alone, including 2-year-old Raphael “Rafi” Cardenas, 3-year-old Elizabeth “Lily” Grace Shambrook, 11-year-old J’alon James and 15-year-old Joshua Avina in the past month. The department is also l aunching public forums to address pedestrian and bicyclist safety as Chicago faces the highest number of traffic-related deaths and injuries in years.
LAKE SHORE DRIVE CHICAGO TRAFFIC DRIVERS
Just hours before drivers took over the Lakefront Trail, CDOT announced all protected bike lanes will get concrete barriers by the end of 2023. The Illinois Department of Transportation directed questions to city agencies. “Obviously, this is a major failure of that.”ĬDOT and the Park District did not immediately respond to Block Club’s questions about how they would prevent drivers from using the trail in the future. “It’s a symptom of the broader problem in this city, which is that we need safe physical infrastructure that prevents cars from accessing places where they shouldn’t be,” Rogers said. He wants the Chicago Department of Transportation and the Park District to gate and lock the curb cuts, so only city employees can access them in an emergency. Without barriers, the driveways provide easy trail access to any car heading northbound - whether they’re allowed to be there or not, Rogers said. But the unsafe situation could happen again if local agencies don’t secure the trail, he said.Įmergency vehicles and Park District service cars sometimes access the trail using curb cuts near 51st Street and at the south end of Promontory Point.
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Rogers said he didn’t witness any close calls where a driver almost hit pedestrians or cyclists on the Lakefront Trail.
LAKE SHORE DRIVE CHICAGO TRAFFIC WINDOWS
Several drivers on the trail rolled down their windows to holler at trail users, saying there was an accident on DuSable Lake Shore Drive “as if that justified what they were doing,” Rogers said. “They were just in a line trying to get off the trail.” “They couldn’t speed or drive erratically,” Rogers said. All cars were off the trail about 15 minutes after Rogers first noticed them, he said. With the exception of one driver - who Rogers estimated went about 30 mph on the trail - the car traffic moved slowly, he said.
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