u/HaddonH

The more I thought about it the sketchier it seemed. Dodgy characters wanting me to stop. JUST KEEP GOING. Whatever someone might be asking, you are not obligated to stop. If someone is in danger that's one thing - someone with bad vibes and big pupils, keep going. Unless its a cop you ALWAYS have the option to JUST KEEP GOING. You don't have to stop for anyone for any reason, as soon as you come to a stop you are a much easier target. JUST KEEP GOING. Stay Safe.

They used to be a thing, little engine kits that could get put on a bike to motorize it with a small gas powered motor. I have not seen or heard one in a couple years. There are plenty of off the shelf Ebike options that run pretty great and for the cost and reliability it isn't worth the time / effort to motorize an old frame when you can get an ready to ride Ebike solution that you can roll into your apartment and that isn't going to smell the place up.

Just sayin'

Logan Square Park was among my least favorite obstacles. I genuinely did not like traversing it, my path is going north/south from the 606 on Kedzie. One day going north I saw a pair of cars in the roundabout have an accident and the same when I returned going south. After that I stayed on the sidewalks or the path that goes through the middle of the park itself or both.

I still use the right or left most side lanes on Kedzie, and I stick to the paths into and around the circle and what was always a bit of a concern has become EZPZ.

I understand that drivers hate the loss of a straight line Milwaukee avenue through there and the introduction of all sorts of pedestrian safety via cement protections. I get it, the redesign adds time to their commute. It might have pushed a bit more traffic onto the Kennedy. Personally though, I find going through there to be so much more safe and less stressful.

On market days the whole place is great and just north of the park on Kedzie, across from the bus/train station is a protected area that has outdoor seating and on the weekends often has a 'no license needed sell what you have market' that there should be more of.

The redesign has reduced the aspect of it being a 'park' by a bit - the amount of grass has been reduced by 5%? I also think the park has lost some if its residential 'lived-in' sort of vibe. It also gave off a more illicit, harder than THC, inject it or smoke it off tin foil quality that has mostly dissipated.

I get it, the drivers (edit: and some cyclists) hate it. Before it wasn't entirely a park, it felt like a mutated roundabout grafted onto an intersection with a bisected lump of grass growing through it. Before the space was ruled by cars moving at speed and now it has been much tamed and made civilized to bikers and pedestrians and the people living in the area.

Others feel different but I am a huge fan of the redesign. It will take a while but I do wonder how accident numbers and other stats compare before/after.

Redesign Diagram

PEEPS, you can always get off your bike and push it during events.

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