Heart Shaped Routes

Brainstorming on heart shaped routes for Chicago social rides.

Inspired by Valentine's Day and one done in San Francisco.

I've thrown together two based on the northside and downtown critical mass launch points.

http://goo.gl/maps/SVnHh

Feedback, refinements, overhaul, interested parties welcome.

Tags: chicago, heart, social, valentine

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Permalink Reply by Julie Hochstadter on February 14, 2013 at 10:31pm

that's so awesome.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on February 15, 2013 at 9:42am

Good NPR article on the San Francisco one. Looks like a big production with camera crew (was turned it into a Android commercial). His had many stair-steps, 27 miles. I'm thinking shorter, using diagonals, and of course broadcast on MassUp.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/02/13/171902975/guy-pumps-ou...

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Permalink Reply by dan brown on February 15, 2013 at 11:46am

love it

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on March 9, 2013 at 4:25pm

I think I've done what can be done with Northside options.
There are 8, 14 and 19 miles variations. The smallest looses form, and the large one requires some big non-bike streets. Leaving the middle one (blue), which still one might not recognize unless told. This took hours, due to one-ways, and trying to imply the angles and curves. I also reviewed other orientation options. I'm going to call this done, for a future northside mass.

Use the live Google Maps version at http://goo.gl/maps/sSp7Z