It’s a good thing I put my car into storage. According to the Healthy Streets Campaign, my neighborhood is a scary place to drive or walk. Well, technically, the danger zone is a few blocks west of me. It’s kind of amazing, actually. Even though you can see a number of six-way intersections on the [...]

Healthy Streets Campaign

It's a good thing I put my car into storage. According to the Healthy Streets Campaign, my neighborhood is a scary place to drive or walk. Well, technically, the danger zone is a few blocks west of me. It's kind of amazing, actually. Even though you can see a number of six-way intersections on the map, they're all far better signalized than the Damen-Elston-Fullerton mess just off the map. And visibility is far worse at Kedzie and Belmont (underneath the expressway there) . So the drivers in the "Drive with Care Zone" are really without excuse. The worst intersections are completely ordinary, according to the 2005 accident totals:

  1. Pulaski and Irving Park: 248
  2. Cicero and Irving Park: 238
  3. Kimball and Belmont: 226
  4. Cicero and Belmont: 205
  5. Cicero and Fullerton: 172

(stats from the "pledge" that was mailed to my apartment)

This entry was written by adam, posted on 23 Oct 2007 at 9:23, filed under chicago and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

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    di
    Posted 23 Oct 2007 at 1:18 |
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    I hate those six-way intersections.

  2. avatar
    adam
    Posted 23 Oct 2007 at 8:36 |
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    yeah, they’re a complete pain. It’s shocking that the city leaves them so poorly signalized.

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