It's All an Illusion

This morning sees the first morning that Chicago's Lake Shore Drive sports new, finished ornamentation. There's a big S-curve at Oak Street, at the top end of the Magnificent Mile, and drivers generally drive through it at higher speeds than necessary. But Chicago Streets and Sanitation has a plan that will change all that! All this week, lane by lane, they've been painting stripes on the roadway to fool drivers into thinking they're driving faster than they actually are. The result, they hope, is that drivers will worry about their speed and slow down all by themselves. This technique has apparently been used to good effect in other parts of the world, but this will be the first time Chicago tries it.

So how's it working? I likely won't be on that part of the Drive until some time over the weekend (if then), but perhaps someone reading this had to take this route to go to work this morning. If anybody's driven through, let us know. Did it feel like you were driving too fast? Did you feel a need to break more frequently than you did in the past? Were the other drivers driving differently? We need to know!