1975 Schwinn Continental

1975 Schwinn Continental
This is the bike before most of the restoration work - click to view full-size

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

75 Schwinn Continental: Out Exploring The Bicycle Way Again...

I rode out to the little park on Macarthur Drive, and took the other fork in the gravel path. It leads to another small neighborhood park and dead-ends there.

I wound my way around through the suburb, and found that Macarthur goes through to 22nd, which gives access to the sidewalk along 22nd, and a lot of strip mall action - including the big & tall men's store. That suits me just fine, I'm 6'6".

There just isn't a pedestrian crossing for HWY 83 to get to Oak Brook Center mall. The safest way is to go up the shoulder a bit from Hodges, where 83 is divided with a wide meridian. Then you can wait for one side to get stopped at the light, cross to the meridian, and wait for the other direction to get light-blocked.

The most logical place for a ped-crossing is at Hodges. The other two intersections are too dangerous.
Time for an IDOT petition.

Ride on,

Dan

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