Illinois State Police have a message out for anyone trying to ride their bicycle on an expressway after a photo captured a person biking on I-90 in Chicago.
Uhh… yeah? Is there not another road that travels the same direction as the expressway with a lower speed limit? This can’t possibly be the only road traveling that direction.
So they choose the fastest road possible that they can’t keep up with? Lots of other roads are far safer for them to be on since traffic isn’t going 2x their speed…
Sure it’s unsafe, so let’s just make it more unsafe by doing it illegally instead of legally on another road that’s safer……… smart idea……
All too often there isn’t another road as everything else is blocked, or at least leads to the expressway not in the direction you want to go. This pushes cars to the expressway (which is faster anyway), and away from places where people live. However it means you can’t get very far via non-car.
There’s always secondary roads, can you provide a city that only has one highway/expressway traveling a direction for reference please? Theres multiple “expressways” that travel the same direction with different speeds.
This person picked the fastest, instead of one of the others.
I don’t know for sure what this person’s situation and riding on the highway is obviously dangerous as fuck, but there are certainly places that you practically cannot get to without a car in the US with any reasonable measure of safety because of how car-centric our infrastructure is.
Uhh… yeah? Is there not another road that travels the same direction as the expressway with a lower speed limit? This can’t possibly be the only road traveling that direction.
So they choose the fastest road possible that they can’t keep up with? Lots of other roads are far safer for them to be on since traffic isn’t going 2x their speed…
Sure it’s unsafe, so let’s just make it more unsafe by doing it illegally instead of legally on another road that’s safer……… smart idea……
All too often there isn’t another road as everything else is blocked, or at least leads to the expressway not in the direction you want to go. This pushes cars to the expressway (which is faster anyway), and away from places where people live. However it means you can’t get very far via non-car.
There’s always secondary roads, can you provide a city that only has one highway/expressway traveling a direction for reference please? Theres multiple “expressways” that travel the same direction with different speeds.
This person picked the fastest, instead of one of the others.
I don’t know for sure what this person’s situation and riding on the highway is obviously dangerous as fuck, but there are certainly places that you practically cannot get to without a car in the US with any reasonable measure of safety because of how car-centric our infrastructure is.