cycling in Chicago

On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 9:44:53 AM UTC-6, AMuzi wrote:
On 3/5/2016 7:40 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/5/2016 10:53 AM, AMuzi wrote:
Three items of note today:

separate lanes
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...304-story.html


From the article: "... the Clybourn curb-protected lane, a
state project, pegged at roughly $700,000..." If that's
"between Division Street and North Avenue" as in the first
photo's caption, that's for just 0.8 miles of roadway.
Seems pretty expensive!



Governments just love that sort of thing. Everyone involved
walks out with a pile of cash, taxpayer be damned.

In today's paper, a 'homeless' housing project for
US$6,200,000 will house 20 bums. That doesn't count ongoing
staff, utilities, maintenance or forgone property tax
revenue on the parcel. Yep, that's $300K per bum to start!
How many of you working taxpaying chumps have a $300,000+
house? [1]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburb...303-story.html

And it wasn't the biggest boondoggle in the paper today, as
every day.

[1]
My curiosity led me to look at that. Your average home in La
Grange sells for $130K

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/La...market-trends/

Makes one wonder if they couldn't just give each pair of
bums a house to share and save $240,000 per bum.
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

In L. A., volunteers are building self contained tiny houses for the homeless to live in, and the police are destroying them instead of trying to find a place for them.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...224-story.html

Lots of empty lots near LAX in a former subdivision slowly converting to commercial. Many are owned by LAX. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct...quare-20131028

Good weather !

BEYOND category here yet lower at night than the bikers need.

I'm in ONF with the SR 19 park road. Cafe is up HD down across the board. A surprise ...