There needs to be enormous curb extensions here, and they need to close off the slip lane. Also they need pedestrian islands all over the place and they need to reduce the number of driving lanes. People can cross one lane at a time but any more than that and it gets really dangerous.
Just wait till you see 55th st and South Shore Drive. 114 feet. Just got hit there a couple months ago. It used to be an entrance onto DLSD but now it's a pedestrian crossing to promontory point
That “slip lane” isn’t going away, because it actually takes Clark traffic directly onto the southbound lanes of La Salle. Because of the angle of Clark Street and La Salle where they meet the right hand turn there would be a very sharp right turn. I think you are probably correct that Chicago has not “renewed” that crosswalk painting, because they want it to go away. Notwithstanding there is the way we want people to do things and the way people actually do things, it’s very easy, and preferred safety wise, to walk to the end of the sidewalk on the west side of the street where it meets La Salle and then cross east over to the crosswalk that takes you across Clark into Lincoln Park. There’s really no way to make a crosswalk at that spot safe, because there’s no reasonable way to make traffic stop there for a signaled crosswalk. I don’t think you’re going to get cooperation from CDOT on this. I don’t come to this intersection from the north very often, but I do come to it from the south frequently. Even though it’s human nature to try to save a few steps, it’s really easy to just walk all the way to the end of the sidewalk where there is an actual intersection with a marked and signaled crosswalk.
The word "park" is doing some heavy lifting here
There needs to be enormous curb extensions here, and they need to close off the slip lane. Also they need pedestrian islands all over the place and they need to reduce the number of driving lanes. People can cross one lane at a time but any more than that and it gets really dangerous.
Great video. I’ve crossed here before, it sucks
Agree
Yes I concur
Just wait till you see 55th st and South Shore Drive. 114 feet. Just got hit there a couple months ago. It used to be an entrance onto DLSD but now it's a pedestrian crossing to promontory point
This intersection is not good for walking or being a pedestrian.
That “slip lane” isn’t going away, because it actually takes Clark traffic directly onto the southbound lanes of La Salle. Because of the angle of Clark Street and La Salle where they meet the right hand turn there would be a very sharp right turn. I think you are probably correct that Chicago has not “renewed” that crosswalk painting, because they want it to go away. Notwithstanding there is the way we want people to do things and the way people actually do things, it’s very easy, and preferred safety wise, to walk to the end of the sidewalk on the west side of the street where it meets La Salle and then cross east over to the crosswalk that takes you across Clark into Lincoln Park. There’s really no way to make a crosswalk at that spot safe, because there’s no reasonable way to make traffic stop there for a signaled crosswalk. I don’t think you’re going to get cooperation from CDOT on this. I don’t come to this intersection from the north very often, but I do come to it from the south frequently. Even though it’s human nature to try to save a few steps, it’s really easy to just walk all the way to the end of the sidewalk where there is an actual intersection with a marked and signaled crosswalk.
The adjacent neighborhoods pay enough in property taxes to have a solution to this problem.