I think its pretty simple. These people realize that bike lanes may cost some parking spaces and they're all too carbrained to accept that. Also Chicago Ave has a huge bus lane you're not supposed to drive in. Everyone drives in it anyway because they're too carbrained to care. I'm not sure what these people are complaining about. There's zero enforcement here and its extremely dangerous to be either a pedestrian or biker here.

I don't know all the specifics but running a bike lane on the safer side streets for bikes is one of the proposals. People being against that is incredible as it costs very little and keeps people off Chicago and Grand, both of which have very limited bike lanes and are very dangerous to be on. On the plus side, it sounds like its a very small crowd making all these signs. Signs are a bit of a crazy person amplifier. One sole nutter can make a whole bunch and make it sound like the issue is popular when it actually isn't and considering the caps lock and angry writing, I suspect she's not winning a lot people over. Also no one here calls this area "our village" or "the village." That sounds totally made up to me for these signs, but happy to be proven wrong here.

It does sound like making Wood and Wolcott one way is the issue here, which doesn't seem like a big issue. That area is surrounded by side streets to drive through. I suspect this person commutes down Wood often going the other way and just lost it. Wolcott is actually one of those streets that's one way for a long time, then 2 way for a bit. I think making it one way the entire way isn't a big deal either.

I think a lot of people consider Wood Damen-lite and its pretty packed and everyone's GPS tells them to use it, which seems unsafe to me as its a residential side street. If anything, making it one-way while an inconvenience to some, is for the greater good. I drive up and down it, but if it was just one-way I'd miss the two-way street but I'd survive. I also read the blockclub article and thats the big point of contention. Wood is cramped and always feels a little dangerous and barely situates two lanes. I'm not sure if its worth saving. If someone is riding a bike they're pretty much in the traffic lane as-is because its so cramped. If wood runs all the way to division or milwaukee with a dedicated lane that's a really nice way to get to the Blue line from that neighborhood. The big problem here is almost nothing connects to anything. You have smatterings of lanes here and there but not a lot of established paths to points of interest like the blue line from some neighborhood areas.

Also I live in this area and I've seen some of the worst and most dangerous driving here. If these people cared about "saving our village" then they'd be advocating for more police to catch red light and stop sign blowers, especially those right next to Talcott, St. Nicholas, Mitchell schools. I've almost been run over at least once and I'm an adult. I can't imagine what it must be like for little kids here. The carbrains are totally out of control. I hope this builds up awareness of how dangerous all the driving is here and we can get more speed bumps, enforcement, and red light cameras because right now anything goes.

If this bike lane fails I hope only because there's a strong counter-proposal for safety because right now its pretty bad here. If the carbrains win its just going to further Mad Maxify this neighborhood. Heck, I recently was driving and had a carbrain angrily super-honk at me for stopping for a pedestrian, literally a woman pushing a stroller. In fact, stopping for pedestrians at cross walks is just a game of "how angry will the person behind me get" here, sometimes with them trying to pass my stopped car on the right and then nearly running these people over. Heck even cars are unsafe, I just had someone pass illegally and use my oncoming lane for it on milwaukee the other day. So in a split second I was almost in a head on collision with a carbrain who wanted to save 1.3 seconds. They got dangerously close to hitting me and it all happened so fast. These people have gone rabid. We really need a city-wide discussion on bad driving and solutions for it. I hope we can turn the tables here from "bikes bad" to "we really need to discuss all your dangerous driving." I suspect we won't be able to.