I saw Santa Claus riding a bicycle in the new bike lane on Wells Street. Yesterday the final line defining the bicycle lane were painted and the temporary No Parking signs on Wells Street were removed. The newly reconstructed Wells street was finally completed after years of planning, much deliberation by the neighbors, three months of construction and the hard work of our alderman. Today we were driving west on Wells street, coming home from a Christmas craft fair, we saw Santa Clause driving east on Wells on a bicycle. We beeped our horn and Santa replied by waving at us as we drove by.

Seeing Santa driving in the bike lane on Wells Street brought a smile to our faces and for me a confirmation that all the hard work by neighbors and alderman to narrow the driving lanes and make parking and bike lanes was the right thing. Maybe the street was Santa’s gift to Wells street neighbors.

It is too early to tell but is seems like with the “traffic calmers”, curb outs, narrow driving lanes and bike and parking lanes the cars driving by from the suburbs on way to and from work are slowing down. If not, we can always ask Santa to put all the speedy drivers on Wells on the “naughty list”.

Comments

Please send any comments on this post to . Let us know which day’s post your comments pertain to. If the comments are appropriate we will post them here for you.