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