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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Take that lane!
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 10:38:38 -0500
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On 4/19/2024 10:05 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
> On 4/18/2024 11:35 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 4/18/2024 9:10 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/a-person-was-spotted-biking-on-i-90-in-chicago-police-have-a-message-for-them/3413507/
>>
>> I (ahem!) know a few people (ahem!) who did something 
>> similar for a short distance at a remote spot on one very 
>> long bike tour. They were advised to do it by a bunch of 
>> friendly retirees, who said it was really the only 
>> reasonable way to get where they were going by bike.
>>
>> It was technically illegal, but it was extremely safe and 
>> disturbed nobody. Your Chicago example seems different,
>>
>   I don't know, Traffic wasn't moving. The only real risk to 
> him would be someone using the breakdown lane (besides 
> another bike).
> 
> There's a stretch of elevated roadway in Cambridge MA called 
> the McGrath  highway. It's limited access, but didn't have 
> any posted usage restrictions (when I was using it in the 
> 90's). When I was working at the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, 
> the regular surface roads were dense with traffic lights and 
> stopped traffic during commuting hours. the highway went 
> over that part of cambridge and dropped off across the 
> charles river a few blocks from MEEI. It had a wide 
> shoulder, and during commuting hours traffic was ostensibly 
> stopped. One day at work, someone in my department commented 
> that I had passed him that morning, and commented on my 
> sanity and intelligence for riding on a roadway with a 50 
> MPH speed limit. I asked him 'how fast were you going when I 
> passed you on my bike?'.
> 
> If traffic was flowing in Andrews example at the speeds it 
> was designed to flow, sure, there would be a safety issue. 
> But safety of a competent cyclist isn't really the point 
> here, it's the safety of the incompetent types - those that 
> would infact ride on a limited use limited access highway 
> with traffic traveling at speed.
> 

OK, incompetent cyclists wandering across the lane stripe. 
Then again the breakdown lane is full of auto pilot carnage 
with some regularity:

https://cwbchicago.com/2024/04/chicago-drunk-driver-killed-former-marine-crash-stevenson-expressway.html
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971