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Chicago’s ‘bikeability’ is behind the curve in recent cycling studies (chicago.suntimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I enjoy biking here and encourage anybody interested to start biking as a form of transportation but hopefully these studies push us to resolve the issues that still exist!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What would that even do? The only places where speed is even remotely enforced is where speed cameras are setup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Im not pretending to be an expert in city planning but lowering the default limit seems like a good place to start.

People still driving crazy? Advocate for a camera(both replies i got said it was the only way it’s enforced and I agree, and lets not bring a cop with a gun into every speeding violation), or for traffic calming devices(speed bumps, narrowing streets with bollards, etc) . If you make it harder to speed on side streets people are going to go back to the thoroughfares as it should be and enforcing those lower limits elsewhere becomes less of an issue.

I’m just spitballing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it looks good on paper for this report but would likely not have any material difference.