Michael McLean
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Michael McLean
@cornoisseur
Advocate for city building. Hyping up nuclear energy ⚛️, transit 🚇, bicycles 🚲, and housing 🏘️. Mostly on bluesky: https://t.co/wu0Lset8OY




The Old vs New Logan Square Park. Biggest change is routing Milwaukee Ave around Logan Square Park instead of through it. That same space will also be the new home of the Farmer's Market #Chicago @ChicagoDOT





reminds me of these buildings in Paris

Now that the Logan Square construction has begun in earnest, I've been studying the design again. One of the oddest choices they made was to expand the existing traffic island at Kedzie/Logan, instead of getting rid of it. Left is their design. Right is how I would rework it.


These things are an absolute god send for NYC I love them so much







“If driving is made difficult enough, this thinking goes, more people will abandon their cars.” Today’s bike lane movement is driven by irrational car hatred more than rider safety. It is led by fringe ideological zealots and must be completely dismantled.

Chicago Illinois, USA


From the Editorial Board: Bike activists need to stop demonizing Chicago drivers. chicagotribune.com/2026/05/01/edi…







“The Torch” at 740 Eighth Avenue is being slept on a bit. It will become more noticeable as it starts fill out at the top. Sure to get a lot of attention




I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge You open the window and you wake up from a 6am garbage truck or barking dogs and sunlight You close it, you suffocate in 1200 ppl at 5am I guess you really need some mini tube in your wall with a vent that opens and closed based on internal CO2 but how do I build that?















