If you want to be unpopular in today’s Chicago, argue that the city should do anything whatsoever to smooth the way for automobile drivers.
A lot of car drivers, including those of us on the editorial board, support separate bike lanes, which clearly are much safer. Most of us also love to take public transportation wherever and whenever we can, assuming we can get where we want to go when we need to be there. For those reasons and others, you don’t hear much blowback when driving in the city becomes markedly more difficult. And if you do hear even a timid complaint, the anti-car lobby comes down with all the force it can muster.
They might also be wondering how all of this would be enforced.
We think Chicagoans would likely feel the same. By all means, let’s have a comprehensive review of speed limits and accident rates involving cars with pedestrians and cyclists across the different wards of the city and see if there are locations where reasonable people can agree that 30 mph is too fast for such places. Aldermanic offices are the obvious places to issue an opinion. And we’re all for enforcing the existing speed limits with rigor.
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