Chicago: Your Chipico Relish Has Gone Off, or Something
This may be the strangest cycling story of the year: In Chicago this weekend you as a cyclist will be allowed the great privilege of riding down I-355, the brand new 12-mile stretch of Interstate west of Downtown Windy City.
Riding your bike to celebrate the opening of yet another multi-lane, tollroad boondoggle and handout to cagers in tribute to the almighty automobile? What's to celebrate?
This seems to me rather like throwing a parade for the Colorado Rockies on Massachusetts Avenue.
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We poached our new freeway on our choppers before it opened. Right after that they opened it to the public for a bike ride, but now it proclaims "no bikes". The good thing is they built a bike path along it, so it's not a total loss. And eventually we may have a safer downtown to ride in.
A little further north, they are putting in a new section of freeway that should cut off "five minutes" of people's drive to the tune of several hundred million dollars. It's going to cross a canyon and a geothermal field. They plan to conveyor in 40,000 truckloads of dirt to complete this project! It's insane to see the construction and try to get into the minds of the people that think that cars are the future...
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