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Cake day: May 31st, 2023

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  • Im not pretending to be an expert in city planning but lowering the default limit seems like a good place to start.

    People still driving crazy? Advocate for a camera(both replies i got said it was the only way it’s enforced and I agree, and lets not bring a cop with a gun into every speeding violation), or for traffic calming devices(speed bumps, narrowing streets with bollards, etc) . If you make it harder to speed on side streets people are going to go back to the thoroughfares as it should be and enforcing those lower limits elsewhere becomes less of an issue.

    I’m just spitballing.



  • Ive been thinking about the city speed limit since that report came out in June. 30 absolutely too high, it should really be 25 or even 20, especially on residential streets.

    Chicago ranked 161st out of 163 big cities and scored a seven out of 100. Speed limits tanked the city’s bikeability. The report’s analysis considers streets with a 30 mph speed limit — a standard for most Chicago streets — or higher as unsafe for cycling.

    “The person who wrote the People For Bikes report told Streetsblog last year that if Chicago had a 25 mph speed limit, we would shoot up to being the 15th best city in the U.S. in their rankings.”

    The Federal Highway Administration has found that a car traveling 30 mph that hits a pedestrian has a 45% chance of killing or seriously injuring them, while at 20 mph, the likelihood of death drops to 5%


  • I’ve been thinking about this comment a lot recently. I appreciate the perspective, the “leftist” affiliation hadn’t initially bothered me (my people) but I can see why folks might be hesitant about it, and I think this conversation could be important if we want to keep growing.

    One of the best parts about the fediverse is we can host this community anywhere, and you don’t necessarily need to create an account on midwest.social to interact and participate so folks have the option to ignore the rest of the server.

    I appreciate the fact that both /c/Chicago and /c/Chibike are on a regional server catering to the Midwest but I’d go where the community is.















  • I couldn’t have agreed more so I reached out to Seahorse and asked them add me as a mod so I could make some changes despite Simsym being absent. I opted to use the municipal device for the icon as DownHomeChunk suggested (its niche and different) and used the theater sign for the banner like r/chicago has (open to alternatives though!)





  • Au Cheval is nice but damn do they make you wait! I’ll be adding Rubi’s and Monster to my list.

    I finally tried Phodega on Ashland. I got the Beef Pho, my partner got the chicken Bahn Mi, and we shared an order of fried pork dumplings. To close out the meal we got some of their house-made Ube cookies and those were tasty and a lot of fun, ube seems to be having a moment.

    Everything was pretty good but the dumplings stole the show, almost wish I had just gotten 2 orders of those. I got the beef Pho because it’s their signature dish but I’m not sure id get it again, it was a little boring and flat and those meat balls were FIRM. It wasn’t bad, just not exciting, there were definitely better things on the menu.

    Next visit I’ll be trying their chicken fried rice.