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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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Last Updated - January 20, 2005
Editorial : City Manager Admits Loss of Traffic Control Whatever Will Be, Will Be... Que Sera, Sera
Coming just 2 weeks after unanimously approving the sale of Park Ridge property to PRC and approving
a special use permit, the Park Ridge City Council
officially acknowledged and stated they are no longer in control of Uptown
Traffic with PRC or IDOT, despite numerous promises made to the contrary by them
and the Planning and
Zoning Commission.
Park Ridge officials seem to believe that we live in Walgreen’s “Town of Perfect”,
where there is no downside costs or risk. For instance no additional money
is allocated to provide police because none will be needed in the new 200 households
and assorted retail businesses, that the city has. Of course, we
don’t yet live in “Perfect” and having a patrolman available 24 hours
costs about $220,000 a year. Just one wrongful death or injury suit could
cost us millions and the reconfiguration chosen will probably cause many
injuries or deaths. There have already been 2 killed in that area, two
lost a leg and one both her legs. In Fontana, CA one accident alone cost
the city
$28.1 million because "Karen Medina, a student at A.B. Miller High
School, was killed on Cypress Avenue in December 2001 when a car driven by
a 15-year-old unlicensed driver veered out of control." and the
city did not
provide safe sidewalks near the schools.
CORRECTS believes that progress mean improving the whole picture,
including pedestrian walkways and easy access on our roads. This is being
significantly hindered rather than fostered by the Park Ridge City Council
and is a breach of their oath to serve the citizens of Park Ridge. Contact us anytime by email at
George Kirkland STAY INFORMED... KEEP IN TOUCH WITH NEW TRAFFIC ISSUES! |
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