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TheFAPnetwork t1_jb3g2ut wrote

Reply to comment by ScottishCalvin in Washington Ave hanging on for dear life by ActionJawnson

It's still winter. The project was done late Fall.

Let's cook with your idea of a trolley on Washington Avenue. Should i fold my shopping cart after shopping at the tile store when I get on the trolley, or do you think the operator will open the back doors so that I can pull my cart on from there? Will your magical trolley be in the center lanes like Girard Avenue? Or will they ride along the sidewalls where trucks load and unload and where people double park?

So in your mind this trolley is installed. Where does it loop around and come back? Or does it go into infinity a place where you can't be bothered; until you need it for where you want to go?

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southwest40x4 t1_jb30a60 wrote

Reply to Washington Ave hanging on for dear life by ActionJawnson

I saw a dude in an eighties headband and short shorts jogging in place waiting for the light DIRECTLY under this today. The motion of the sign at the time could best be described as a jerking wobble. I felt as if I were witnessing a “crispin glover gets his arm chopped off” bit from Hot Tub Time Machine in real life.

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ScottishCalvin t1_jb2siwe wrote

Reply to Washington Ave hanging on for dear life by ActionJawnson

So blocking the cycle lane

Has anyone ever actually seen these bike lanes being used? I'm serious, half of a major arterial connection shut down for a bike lane. I live next to it and I think I've seen 3 bicycles in the last however months it's been since they did that work.

Nobody shopping at the tile+brick places uses a bike. Nobody buying produce for their restaurant is doing it via bike. Nobody travelling from 22nd street to Target is buying groceries on a bike

A trolley would have at least made sense, as would have a safe bike lane on Christian

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