In the same edition with two editorials that mentioned the need for the city to help the CTA (“CTA needs to make a U-turn” and “Mayor Daley’s painless budget,” Oct. 9) is a Metro story about the city bringing back reversible lanes at the north end of Lake Shore Drive.
When will the city understand that the way to reduce automobile congestion on city roads is not to make our neighborhood streets quasi-expressways in order to pacify drivers (many of them, perhaps, suburbanites)? If the city took the money used for distributing traffic cones four times a day by city crews and channeled those funds to having safer, faster and more convenient trains, we all would be better off.
As a Rogers Park resident, I am angry at having Sheridan Road turned into an expressway twice a day so drivers can have a faster alternative to CTA trains, buses and Metra trains that already serve the area. That the city spends my tax money to encourage suburban drivers to forsake public transportation and to clog my neighborhood streets is infuriating–and something to remember at election time.
