Re: Antipersonnel infrastructure

On 6/9/2024 8:55 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 14:26:58 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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Latest boondoggle on North Clark Street Chicago:
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https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/06/06/raised-expectations-some-curb-protected-bike-lanes-often-flood-could-switching-to-raised-lanes-solve-the-problem
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My daughter sent snapshots much like the above (and a long
harangue) taken on the way to work this morning.
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City of Chicago has a compulsion to waste money making
cyclists miserable and raising risk for cyclists.

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They're not just wasting money on bike lanes. GOvernments waste money,
after all, it's not the bureaucrats money and they know they can
always get more from the dumb shits who keep re-electing them.
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https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/waste-watch-nearly-100m-of-waste-in-illinois-state-and-local-government/
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 Locally they are “upgrading” the A3 major a motorway in all but name road
at its junction with the M25 london’s orbital motorway.
 Project page
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/m25-junction-10-project-profile/
 https://www.roads.org.uk/blog/we-need-talk-about-wisley
 And good appraisal of it, ie waste of 400 million on what is god awful mess
and a largely for short stretch of an extra lane! At best case the junction
will be overcapacity in under 10 years! A good use of money this is not!
 That would pay for a lot of bike lanes! And frankly hospitals! Both of
which would be much better investment of public money!
 Roger Merriman
 

I don't doubt it.
But your scale there is small.  One freeway interchange in Chicago, sadly named for Jane Byrne*, took 9 years and $793 million.  Careers were made on the excess. By a great many people...
*I say sadly because Saint Jane was probably among the least corrupt to ever climb the greasy pole in Illinois politics.
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Andrew Muzi
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