Chicago streets with their odd width are actually quite good for bicycling unless some dumbbutt paints a line on them.
When I used to participate in the bicycle NG. I am not well liked there since I am for 85th percentile speed limits and proper road-signal design while I am against bike lanes and street parallel bike paths.
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I see a turn out, a shoulder, two lanes, a yellow line and two more lanes. Oh and a yellow corvette. I see an off road bike path to the left side of the picture.
I see a shoulder.
If there is any kind of cross traffic I do not want to be on that shoulder. It's a great way to be right hooked and makes left turns difficult in any sort of traffic.
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Now that I have a speedo on my cannondale I know how fast I am going. On that road I would be averaging 25mph. That stretch in the direction the vette is pointed in looks downhill, without cross streets. I would probably being 30mph on it. Bicycle brakes aren't the best things in the world, the last thing I want is someone right hooking me when I am doing 30mph.
Drivers tend to think that all bicycles are moving at a walking pace. I rutinely have drivers go wide to pbutt me, but cut back in to the right when the are along side of me. It doesn't even register in their brains they nearly ran me off the road. This is why I also part of the reason I don't ride on the line if the road is shoulderless.
Being on the shoulder encourages being right hooked. If this highway was some sort of effective limited access where I *knew* that shoulder did not vanish and was not pressed with rumble strips, then it would be a special case and I would ride just to the right of the line.
