Chicago and wayfinding systems

Surprisingly, unlike cities like DC and Baltimore and Philadelphia and Downtown Los Angeles and Downtown Seattle, Chicago doesn't have a comprehensive citywide wayfinding signage system serving walkers and bicyclists and drivers, provide assistance for people:

1. Coming to the city;
2. Getting around the city and within neighborhoods once you have arrived;
3. Coming to but going through the city without stopping (but providing information that might lead them to stop, given the provision of the information).

Again, the 2016 Olympics are the opportunity to initiate, develop, and implement such a system.
Cities like Baltimore do a much better job than DC of providing detailed information at the neighborhood level in a manner that complements broader systems.

I will "clean" (take out specific city references) of the wayfinding section of a plan I wrote about this within a couple of revitalization plans I've worked on and post it, once I get back to DC (tomorrow), as an example. (I might augment it with a couple of things/images I forgot to put in one or the other of the plans.)

I joke that the recommendations I make elsewhere are a form of "gap analysis" of what is done in DC.