[thegoatman]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

ashland is definitely better than western for the most part.

but it has its stretches of crap too:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8351...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7854...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8658...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9059...7i16384!8i8192

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9360...7i16384!8i8192



and anytime any major chicago street gets near an expressway, man do they tend to get depressing and pedestrian-hostile.

stupid fucking traffic engineers.

All these are bad, but that Wicker Park Lowes is the worst offender because a couple hundred feet south you have a wonderful vibrant Brooklyn-esque urban street on Milwaukee, then you make a turn and see...that. Bulldoze that whole lot and store.