Plowing Problems
Someone mentioned this in the comments:
- How are the speed bumps, bike lanes, curb bump-outs and those plastic lane markers affecting plowing operations?
And how many hundreds of thousands of dollars are going to be spent on....:
- concrete repair
- new plastic lane markers
- straightening out plow blades
....after everything that was already spent on f#$%ing up traffic?
We warned years ago that the bike lanes were only usable seven months a year and eliminated how much street parking? Dealing another blow to businesses who relied on customers being able to....you know....actually park near their storefronts.
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posted by SCC at 12:09 AM
71 Comments:
I wonder what the learning curve would have been on efficiently clearing all the sidewalks too.
And now the Uber Eats/Door Dash drivers clog the remaining lane.
The bike lanes are really wasteful. I am out at different times of the day on streets like Milwaukee, Elston, Grand et al. And even in the warm months you don’t see that many using them. The City caters to that voting block of bicyclists. What I do see is a lot of knocked down barriers and broken concrete. And it has slowed down some streets that were 2 lanes. Operating a plow has to be a nightmare.
Below is an AI clip describing costs, just took one paragraph as it really gets into detail:
“ ...
The cost to construct bike lanes in Chicago per mile varies widely depending on the type, from around $170,000 for a basic painted lane to potentially over $1 million for a protected lane with physical barriers. Other factors like the specific street, existing infrastructure, and project scope contribute to the final cost, so there is no single price. “
Plow blades could care less about a plastic bump in the road... Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping! Ping!
Buh bye bullshit bike lane! Ping!
Plowing fallen snow off the main avenues from curb to curb, unimpeded by any parked vehicles, was the entire purpose as proposed by city at the time.
Some time after, the side street speed bumps were touted as for the safety of the children. Thus, other than private contracts using much narrower plow blades to push snow from outer edge of those speed bumps all the way onto the curbside frontage between curb and sidewalks, no plowing of sidestreets has ever been practical. Other then for plowing in any vehicles parked upon same.
So, even before those idiotic bike lanes bordered by concrete curbage were installed, upon those major and minor avenues, nothing about these schemes is effectively beneficial other than for revenue.
Fancy that.
This can never fully be a bicycle city being we have a winter, spring and fall rain. How many nice days to ride your bike? Ridiculous!
How about the crap job of removing the snow and ice in and around the 24th district?
Most bike lanes are perpetually empty. South and West Side bike lanes like the ones on Vincennes Ave and around Garfield Park are virtually deserted year round. Even the lanes on Jackson in the West Loop during the summer months rarely have more than a handful of cyclists throughout the day. Elston Ave, once a convenient alternative to sitting on the Kennedy, has become a massive one lane caravan of bumper to bumper drivers moving at a snail's pace. Rush hour drivers sit in traffic and stare at the vacant bike lanes that once made a painful commute a little more tolerable in one of the worst traffic cities in the country. Rahm topped Daley's city hall rooftop garden by adding unused bike lanes to nowhere citywide, wasting millions of taxpayer $ to pander to the rotten libs that gentrified once normal Northside neighborhoods. Democrats!
I whenever possible shop in the suburbs that has those "big parking lots" and NO fear of getting a stupid city ticket of some kind!
Once again Chicago loses out on tax revenues for their business killing ideas like bike lanes!
It’s about advancing the one worlders agenda, make it impossible to get around in cities by car and force people to use bicycles like Chy-nah. Everyone will be living in 15 minute cities, no need to travel, everything will be accessible by bike or walking. They can’t have the rabble traversing the country freely in their automobiles, we vill not own anything, and we vill eat ze bugs und be happy. What the heck’s going on, I’m starting to sound like a Nah-zee.
Bike riders are the absolute biggest assholes you encounter on a daily basis
Word has it that Mayor BITCH is going to crack any day now.
He has been scene yelling, screaming and actually crying like some lunatic.
Get the popcorn ready.
Alll these traffic tools etc don’t mean a thing. Bikers don’t follow rules. Save the money for great patrol cops to stop lighting people on fire.
Don’t forget about the shitty parking meter deal that says if the city removes parking spots that are metered, they must compensate the conglomerate that owns them now
The city hires seasonal drivers that come from a pool of people that never drove big trucks!!!
Don’t worry about speed bumps or plastic sticks Stay far far away from these trucks if you value your life!!!
Hmmm reminds me of when State street was closed except to buses!!!
Can we exactly get some photos of all the damaged snow blades? It would be great to embarrass Mayor Low IQ with all the destroyed equipment.
yep,,, that's called job security,,, make and build something with taxpayer money that will be destroyed in less than 1 year, so you get to go back and fix it the next year with more taxpayer money and then start the cycle over again and again
Bike lanes came in at Reason Number #7 when I decided to leave Shitcago when I retired. They destroyed thoroughfares and made traffic impossible. Fortunately all remaining family in Illinois now lives in distant burbs and I don’t have to deal with them at all when I return to visit.
The bike lanes, the plastic marker and don't forget the concrete median pots in the middle of the big streets that was a part of the "beautification project" was not designed to beautify. It was designed to further reduce traffic lanes and congestion traffic in order to push more people to use public transportation and or bikes. Now Chiraq got a contract with some connected people to rent out the Divvy bikes and the electric scooter program as well.
It's by design. Nothing is accidental. Just like the SAFE-T Act. It wasn't designed to protect Illinoians. It was designed to keep criminals out of jail and bankrupt small businesses. Same when a CCW shoots and armed assailant, Chiraq will blame the law abiding person who wasn't committing crime but, simply CCW to defend themselves.
Same with CPS and the Common Core Curriculum. It was designed to keep students dumbed down and now it is only an indoctrination center brain washing these kids to be libs, whatever sex they imagine, everything is racist, fascist and all the other topics to dilute the American dream and way of life.
Keep your heads up and on a swivel.
DBEL
I don't know if they bought special narrow snow plows for the idiotic bike lanes, but I did watch a special narrow street sweeper clean one a few months ago.
OT. Just read a CWB Chicago article about a CPS teacher taking part in a 2 million dollar scam of Southwest Airlines vouchers. These teachers need a COPA like organization to oversee the bull shit that they’re a part of.
Hey, Ive seen these dumb ass yuppies and climate freaks riding their bikes in snowstorms and snow covered streets...they dont care.
OOPS. I saw the words "biggest assholes" and I got all excited. I have to lie down now. I think I am getting a case of the vapors.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Suckers.
Equity Optics = a feelgood frame from the city.
My town has awesome trails, bike paths, and off road bike parks. The “seat pole and fruity outfits club” still prefers to ride our narrow, two lane roads. How else’s would they “cruise for dudes”?
The UAE doesn’t need the money, but they will take it. Suckers!
That is what the pro trans crap is all about. To see how much you will submit to. If you allow a freak in a dress near your kids, you are fully indoctrinated.
just vote democrat for more....
1631 gets hardly any snow service. Side streets still a mess.
Rick is this you
Gotta keep those Teamsters working!!
These aren't you father's snowplow driver's nowadays. The idiot DEI plow people are idiot's.
truth
Not to mention roving bands of armed thugs that will knock you out and take your bike.
They've added these bike lanes and plastic "cones" all over Nashville now. By them adding these things is a sign about who is getting elected there. They also look terrible too. It's like you're driving around in Tokyo.
There isn't the infrastructure to accommodate the vast migration to that city as it is. There is always congestion and car accidents every time I go there compared to 10yrs ago. Now they have gone and made it even worse.
Dems ruin every city they move into, just like...
Exactly. And it's not just a pro-bike mentality, it's an anti-automobile mindset. They want to make driving in the city as difficult as possible for as many people as possible. They don't care how much it cost tax payers or how much it negatively affects business in the city. Green eco-politics is a recipe for higher costs, higher taxes, and less commerce and jobs.
This means he actually cares for Chicongo. Too stupid to realize this city is trash. I personally would not give a single F. Pay me, give me an unlimited credit card(Jcat style), drive me around and provide protection. F if I care what happens to this city after I’m gone. My Elite masters would take care of me.
Bike lanes are a waste of money. The money spent by vehicle owners is crazy gas tax, plates, and city stickers and we don't get to use half the FKN street. What do bikes pay $0, they cause accidents and when they hit you they have no insurance!
They have their own Inspector General. They take complaints.
https://cpsoig.org/index.html
All things considered, bicycling is among the least wasteful ideologies the people who run our government subscribe to. Don't get me wrong, it's a dead loss and every dollar wasted, but at least the numbers are smaller than buying votes from people who can't vote.
Just like any other wasteful tree-hugger project, a guaranteed failure.
Pretty much! And the vast majority have absolutely ZERO respect for the Rules of the Road. To these folks Green means go and Red means go around!
Construction on north side, Ashland Ave almost done. North of Hollywood is now a cluster fuck. The city has systematically ruined the streets block by block. This isn't "street-scaping", more like activism to me...
Exactly! Police will not respond to traffic accidents unless there is an injury. To get a police report you have to goto the nearest station. If a bicyclist hits me and dents my car, what to do? Give them a ride? What if they don't want to go?
13B is fast approaching. Usually 5-7 guys take the parking lot fall and come back around Easter.
It's the tail wagging the dog. Ever see a bike stop? Signal for turns?
How many thousands of parking spaces and CA$H from meters have been affected? The bike lanes, bump outs, etc makes it HELL to go into any American city!
I got elbowed by a rogue cyclist on Randolph. I stepped into a bike lane to make room for a mom with a stroller. If I had an umbrella I'd have stuck it in his spokes and hope he got run over by a truck. Screw the bike lanes.
Will the Rainbow Crosswalks survive?
Nothing is more important than this.
Look at this guy saying it’s a racist system screaming that he inherited they are pushing out anybody that has any kind of brains in their head no matter what skin color you are. This guy is a piece of shit
https://www.city-journal.org/article/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-national-alliance-against-racist-political-repression
Traffic sucks in this city because of all the bike lanes and stupid curbs. This was once an efficient city. Not any more.
Please stop demonizing the thugs.
no we don’t don’t , your thinking of IDOT
What really, REALLY pisses me off are the hipsters towing their toddler in a cheap-ass aluminum frame two wheeled death trap behind their three-grand bicycle! How the fuck much protection with that provide in a car crash? How is it even allowed?? You gotta have a kid in a car seat up to a certain age, but in a nod to the politically correct assholes, THIS is OK???? Scumbag parents!
I removed my bike seat years ago during the naked ride fest on the lakefront it was quite liberating.
Special = $4 million...
Forgetting the bike lanes for a minute - what about those moronic "Stop for Pedestrians" signs hotglued in the middle of the street? Every fucking moron thinks they need to stop at every crosswalk even if no one's there...
Biggest pile of crap... Hope the snowplows shear them off this winter too... PING!
You should see the photo of the man in a woman's bathroom with a purse. He's in a skirt and he has an erection. It's so vile and disgusting. It's outrageous that politicians allow these perverts into women's bathrooms to satisfy their sick fetish.
And most importantly
Control
Climate change is bullshit. “Man made climate change”
It’s man made alright. If you know anything about Vietnam, then you already know what 60 years of technology can do for
CONTROL
I always found it funny that you never saw the building maintenance/engineers during snowstorms. Instead you saw the minumum wage 5 foot tall cleaning ladies shoveling the snow from the sidewalks around 011. They made sure they had their designated parking spaces though.
Now, now, bandito, you know you prefer them tight and winking at you.
Or are you hung like an elephant?
What's with this delusion that the cover coatings of labeled groups, designed and intended to misdirect the attentions of the less than rigorous observers, are the cause of these more than wasteful, literally fraudulent, schemes?
Take your simple minded, devolved to simpleton, 'thinking' and fart it out of the place it perculated from.
The fraudsters could not exploit the useful idiots without the assistance of the lazy brained critics verifying the idiot' idiotic perceptions of same.
Cyclists do not pay for city stickers, plate stickers or gas tax. All of these fees go towards the road way. Bike lanes with concrete barriers are wasting taxpayer money, stealing from motorist fees and clogging traffic. Not to mention, they block emergency vehicles and slow response times. Now plows cannot clear concrete bike lanes and cyclists are forced to travel with extremely narrowed traffic. This is stupid and dangerous. Who the heck is in charge?
wow,,,, how did I survive all those years when I was riding my bike all over the city with not 1 bike lane??
It’s all about spending huge tax payer money called the “ green deal” during the biden era- they were throwing money at anyone who would build these bike lanes. Also they had huge money for electric charging stations that flopped too.
By there being not one bike lane designated along any main avenue where motor vehicles are known to occupy in motion.
Now, bike paths are located nowhere near motor vehicle traffic. Side streets are not main avenues and, thus, not used by motor vehicles as such. Plus, one cannot but recognize, when riding on side streets, the nature of the neighborhoods and so notice where not to ride.
As abundant variations of the paths chosen freely by the cyclist, side streets are it. And, the architectures are fascinatingly varied.
Just pay attention.
Or a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, leather gloves, dressed up like an NFL lineman. Times have changed.
Saw the bike lane on Cermak being used 5:30am today as I was on my way to work. No problem with that - more issues with streets being clogged about 90 minutes later with the cars of CPS parents dropping their kids off at school since Lightfoot cancelled school bus service. Each yellow bus takes something like 40 cars off the streets during rush hours.
No drivers had a smart phone to distract them back then
The distraction from driving is more from the idiots on bicycles between your passenger side and parked vehicles, which you can only see in your passenger side door mirror, until they slide past you, then again only from that mirror as you slide past them.
These main avenue bike lanes are a hazard to even the most attentive driver.
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