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CORRECTS |
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.
.Our Mission: Reduce Vehicle Congestion, Prevent Injuries, Save Lives |
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Issued to Park Ridge Public Works Commission - February 2, 2005 Subject: CORRECTS Present New Design Plan to City New Traffic Routing Proposal Cover Letter
Click to See CORRECT'S Newest Design Plan Details Assumptions: 2. Park Ridge would like to
create a safe and effective pedestrian crossing of Touhy Avenue to
facilitate the connectivity of Uptown. The best place to accomplish this
is at the Summit and Touhy intersection. 3. Traffic, Parking and
Pedestrian Safety should be considered from the stand point of Park Ridge
Citizens and businesses and Uptown as a whole. These items should also be
considered as regards future plans for development of surrounding areas
and our Park Ridge identity as spoken of in previous Task Force and Master
Plans. 4. Issuance of an IDOT permit
for this traffic signal currently as defined is not acceptable as they
lack critical morning traffic data, because, unlike standard grid
patterns, Uptown traffic in the evening is simply not reliable or adequate
to predict what morning traffic patterns will be like and needs to be
studied. The safety and the future of Park Ridge are at stake and most
come first. • Widen by one lane southbound
Summit where the merge occurs before the Meera station and exiting on
Prospect, with routing signage. This would also alleviate traffic stacking
on Summit, at the Summit - Prospect - Metra intersection (a concern of
IDOT). • Adding a 2 lane connecting
road at the North border of Summit Square Retirement Residence, along with
the appropriate no turn signs at Busse and Touhy and at Summit and Touhy
will alleviate traffic at the Summit and Touhy intersection by bringing it
to the Meacham / Busse and Touhy intersection. This road would also allow
traffic within the site to maneuver without the necessity of crossing or
accessing N.W. Hwy. or Touhy, thereby also alleviating traffic at Touhy
and Summit. • CORRECTS believes that even
with Meacham open at Touhy, with the increased and efficient access to and
through the site and the reduced turning availability at specific
intersections, it will allow safe, efficient and effective signalization
on Touhy Avenue, IDOTS main concern. • CORRECTS firmly believes that
negotiations with IDOT over the future of the City of Park Ridge will be
detailed, but we firmly believe that through reasoned discussions all
parties to these issues will be satisfied. • Other concerns that CORRECTS
would like discussed are the widening of Touhy Avenue with appropriate
turning lanes, the possibility of moving Touhy to the South to provide
safe pedestrian access on the North side of Touhy though Uptown and access
to the underground parking garage from Meacham Ave. ** We fully expect and
in fact desire that this proposal be discussed in detail from all traffic
and safety issues, the connectivity issues and the cost issues. We
respectfully request that when considering the cost side that it be
remembered that the return on investment be taken over the appropriate
number of years and that traffic safety and the value of a viable and
workable Uptown be considered. We must think of our future and a quality
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