Safest route into Hyde Park

JHS
Mon, 03 Jun 2019 13:46:24 +0000

It’s not east of the park you are worried about, it’s west of the park, the part you go through while driving east on Garfield towards the park. East of the park is where fun comes to die; if you’re worried about that, I can’t help you.

That said – the proposed journey through a less-than-spiffy urban environment is all of half a mile. It’s really no big deal. The sketchiness of that area consists mainly of properties being boarded up and unoccupied, and there being relatively few people around. It’s not like driving through some gang-controlled slum teeming with humanity in Port-au-Prince or Calcutta.

But kaukauna and others are right – there’s probably no meaningful time difference between that route or the Lake Shore Drive route, unless your final destination is, say, the North Campus dorm (vice versa for South Campus/BJ or International House). And LSD will be a more pleasant trip.

There’s no advantage whatsoever to taking the Stony Island exit. She will drive three times as far through a neighborhood that is no less challenging, and it will be meaningfully slower than either of the other two exit options.