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Citizens Organized for Reasonable Routes Enhancing Community Traffic & Safety non-non-partisan, nonprofit, member-supported public interest organization that promotes Traffic and Safety issues by influencing public policy decisions: legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral. A community organization dedicated to providing a central place to review Park Ridge Traffic and Safety issues with its citizens and their elected Representatives and City's management. To practice and promote the responsible use of our roads, traffic systems and resources. To educate and enlist citizens to protect and restore the quality of our auto and pedestrian traffic as one of our cherished human environments in Park Ridge. CORRECTS - Citizens Organized for Reasonable Routes Enhancing Community Traffic & Safety believes that citizen's pedestrian safety, auto safety and reasonable routes comes first in city traffic. That before adding a traffic signal or traffic signals which generates slow traffic, bumper-to-bumper traffic, traffic gridlock, traffic complaints, traffic crashes, traffic signs, traffic bottleneck, automobile traffic, traffic congestion, rush hour traffic, bumper to bumper traffic, traffic congestion, rush hour traffic and automobile traffic, that a Park Ridge Alderman and/or Park Ridge Aldermen, should require a traffic study to avoid this auto traffic scenario in Park Ridge, Illinois. Only reasonable auto traffic should be permitted to provide reasonable routes with traffic safety and avoid traffic accidents, traffic injuries, pedestrian injuries, auto accidents, traffic problems, which will also decrease pedestrian traffic in Park Ridge and thus negatively affect retail sales and our quality of life. We encourage Park Ridge citizens to register and for all voters to vote only for a Park Ridge Alderman / Park Ridge Aldermen Park Ridge Mayor that promises to ensure Reasonable Routes and City Traffic Safety. Today’s Park Ridge City Policy of waiting for citizens to first be injured, maimed and dead, while creating a serious crisis of traffic congestion, in traffic routes and hurting existing retail businesses, is unacceptable. CORRECTS holds itself out as an Open Forum to provide an opportunity for citizens and organizations to inform the public of events, issues or projects. This will allow you to report anything you wish to see addressed or answered regarding traffic anywhere in Park Ridge. Your input on this issue if vital to all of us. Please review and advise us of what you think of the concepts and what you prefer. We need your input to inform and advise. Check out our Park Ridge Traffic and Safety series of forums and speak out.

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Issued to City Council - December, 2004

This is a follow-up to tonight’s Council meeting which I did speak at some length to. Oddly a stranger next to me had a copy of my web page map and introduced himself when I sat down. He said he had told his son in New York about his concerns and his son read about me and CORRECTS in the Chicago Tribune Metro section and referred him to the site, what are the odds of that?

I reviewed with the traffic consultants the “Magical Mystery Tour” cars that simply disappear and reappear and they told the council that they are permitted to modify the flow up to 20% to fit their “program” and they have …blah… blah.. (they weren’t pleased). However the city traffic consultant conceded several points I raised, including the fact that the city was not holding a permit letter from IDOT, but merely the go ahead to put together a much more detailed report…

The sale was approved unanimously, which I can live with as the left turn east under the viaduct was just reinstated for Busse and the sale does not carry any requirements for the street light to be at Summit and Touhy which is the desire of the Interim Mayor and being parroted by some of the Alderman for “connectivity” (an opinion neither I nor any uptown businessman share). Since IDOT will not approve this without proof now, the traffic planners will perform a more detailed sturdy to at least get it past IDOT.

However, I asked the council to take up a proposal for taking personal ownership of this beyond the minimum IDOT places on Touhy and N.W. Hwy. as we are all in this town together and it is not really acceptable to have Summit and Prospect collapse, which it currently surely will. Hopefully, in the future they will realize the light at Summit is not worth the price as the timing is set for walk 4 feet a second and not many of the seniors at Summit can make that rate. Also, IDOT was not aware of a Senior Residence being on that corner.

So in summary, we all would be better served by keeping the traffic flowing and the kids and seniors safe. I feel sure, I would rather cross Touhy without any light at all than have to keep my eye on all those cars turning and driving through, as there is not a “No Turn on Red” in the plan... yet!

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George Kirkland


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