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| Elbowing for more room // Folks tired of taking congested trails in strid | |
| Aug 16, 1998 | |
| Della De LaFuente | |
| Chicago Sun-Times | |
| Pertains to Lakefront Path, Chicago | |
| On any sunny day - especially on weekends - the Chicago area's jogging and biking trails can turn into congested speedways as freewheeling bikers and inline skaters jostle for position with slower-moving joggers and walkers. In Chicago, the 18-mile Lake Front Path jams with bikers and skaters, sometimes dangerously. "Speed and a skinny path for too many people are the big problems out here," said Ryan Boudreau, 18, a Chicago bicyclist who collided head-on with a speeding bicyclist last month on the path. "There are people riding around out there like they've never ridden a bike." And ... |
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