Plastic Posts Installed To Block Drivers Using Elston Bike Lane To Skirt Traffic

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/28/plastic-posts-installed-to-block-drivers-from-using-elston-bike-lane-to-skirt-traffic/

Rush-hour backups near Goose Island have led some drivers to illegally use a partially protected bike lane on Elston Avenue near Division Street to beat traffic.

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errer@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 87d (2 replies)

Put real bollards in you cowards

inari@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 87d

Can't threaten the mighty automobile

Wahots@pawb.social · 3 pts · 86d

My favorite are the ones here, which look like plastic, but are actually reinforced steel and concrete. Someone's in for a surprise, just like the people who park in the rush hour bus lane (their brand new Mach E was destroyed)

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 84d

You must build additional pylons.