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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.
.Our Mission: Reduce Vehicle Congestion, Prevent Injuries, Save Lives |
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Last Updated - March 14, 2005 Parking Unavailable for Library, Pickwick & Prospect PRC Parking Shortage Overflow to Library & North of N.W. Hwy. creates CRISIS!
Click to See Map of CORRECT'S Where the Cars Park NO PARKING for patrons of Library, Pickwick & Prospect patrons and another 113 unavailable parking space shortfall Uptown in two years just from TA2
Assumptions:
2. That an additional 264 parking spots will not become available from some other source.
3. That the
official "experts" traffic plan is reasonably accurate.
The
requirement for traffic and the unsafe traffic signal, unsafe pedestrian
crossing, is to make up for the parking shortfall by creating a crisis,
which will have to be addressed when half the current Aldermen are gone as
an immediate crisis to be solved by the new Council. The only solution
will be to tear down the existing library and put in a similar PRC project
with a new Library. However, with Northwest Highway and Touhy at maximum capacity with the needed signal light and the closure of Meacham, no developer will enter without the City picking up more of the tab, as traffic cannot support it and thus a new development will bring only more town homes and condominiums and little retail. The traffic jams and parking problems will be further exacerbated by this added redevelopment and will require several high-multi-million dollar traffic and parking infrastructure changes to rectify, at the expense of the taxpayer. All because the Interim Mayor, Council, and Planning and Zoning Commission would not permit time for real studies by experts in these fields focused on protecting us from this, even though they were given the chance after the sale was completed. CORRECTS will record all current or ex-aldermen, ex-mayor and City Manager who pushed this horrendous debacle onto to us dishonestly, portraying “profit”, and merely playing a shell game with us to hide the hidden losses. More on this will come out as the numbers become real. (For example PRC quoted a number for their townhomes that was low and required the City to pick up more of the total cost. But PRC has sold all the units already for a profit above expectations amounting to $2,500,000, of which the park Ridge gets nothing!) The outgoing Interim Mayor should be honest about the real costs to Park Ridge that are currently be shuffled around and will pop up as cures -- like the Summit Mall Parking and its cost, which should be reflected against their partnership with PRC and all other infrastructure cost that will be needed “to solve the problem later” as mayoral candidate Tinaglia put it. As configured, what could have been great will probably cost us close to $100,000,000 to fix… Note the 100 city bought underground parking spaces at nearly $30,000 a year for trivial permit parking income! Official PRC projected net shortfall 77 parking spaces CORRECTS study of existing parking taken and the subsequent loss of yields: 0 NO PARKING for patrons of Library, Pickwick & Prospect patrons and 113 unavailable parking spaces leaving 34 Library Lot to employee 29 & Permit. [Click here to see breakout of parking details and how 264 parking spots needed] This deal needs to be renegotiated to provide adequate parking and traffic Fair Use Notice This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner
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