Traffic @ Central Street & Central Park, Evanston IL

In this clip you see how extra width of Central Street in Evanston, a state road, is used by drivers as a 4-lane road west of Central Park. The width allows one vehicle to stop and wait to turn left, while others bypass. This happens hundreds of times a day at this intersection. The extra width also creates safety for bikes and is why the street has been designated for a bike path under the Evanston Bicycle Plan. Plans to narrow Central Street or add bumpouts, with conditions already very congested at peak hours, need to be re-examined with an eye to how the extra width operates as a safety valve. If there is no bypass, vehicles will stack up at intersections.

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News & Politics

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• Evanston
• Central
• Street
• traffic
• left
• turn
• road
• width
• bicycle

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Watch the cars going around the car that stops to turn left.