Your city: road bridges with bike lane

[shootingstar]

Lovely outdoor cam shot that is refreshable: http://www.katkam.ca/
Different experience at ground level on bike. http://qik.com/video/2185920

bmcc: Unfortunately there is not 1 route for a bike to go across that named area.
Geoz: which region of Illinois did your roads have car diet?

I agree with you --in line with the old mantra, if you build the roads, they (the cars) will come. So 6-lane highway/road to relieve congestion, but just gets built up with traffic over the years....especially when there is no effort to add more public transit to reduce car traffic volume.

The big bridge logjams are out in the suburbs, not downtown..I saw the traffic jams every day on the edge of the suburbs streaming into downtown Vancouver, for past 3 years, as I sat in the transit bus whipping by, heading OUT to the suburbs.

I am not sure how Seattle compares in number of major aerterial road bridges over rivers, inlets, straits, lakes, etc. But Metro Vancouver has more road bridges (that I haven't named in this thread), that cyclists either must avoid or grit their teeth, ride on them or latter, have a reasonably 'safe' ride. Certainly can be planning consideration for a long trip across multiple municipalties or on days with high winds (any time of year) or ice.

We may have the balmiest climate in Canada which allows cyclists to cycle into the winter, but what prevents more cycling frequency in winter are the bridges...