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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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Published - December 13, 2004 There are several problem results in the Developer’s Traffic Study which I do not understand how the Traffic Consultant hired by the City could have overlooked and given glowing reviews to its wisdom and credibility. The most significantly glaring errors are:
However, the most significant impact will come from the areas either outside the plan entirely such as Touhy and Greenwood and the rerouted traffic within the plan which will occur and which will cause a system wide breakdown of the planned timing from stops and most from turns and changed light signals extended to allow traffic to access Touhy and Northwest Highway. This traffic not planned for which will reduce the car-carrying capacity of Touhy and Northwest Highway as a whole starting at involving Elm Street and two intersection on Washington and those delays will travel upstream Eastward on all of Touhy and both North and Southbound Northwest highway. After the crossing pedestrian of Touhy at Meacham, perhaps the most dangerous pedestrian crossing will be those school children crossing Northwest Highway to attend St Paul of the Cross Elementary School at 140 S Northwest Hwy. where there are two stop lights located a few yards apart where Washington jogs to the East South side of Northwest Hwy. and where the students will be walking parallel to the traffic on both streets. Because of the "No Turn on Left at Six Corners during peak hours there will be considerable added traffic both onto Washington at Northwest Hwy., which should become bumper-to-bumper from at least that point through Touhy and Washington. Most likely the traffic lights will need to be adjusted, but the bottleneck will cause a lot of frustration and uncertainty of pedestrians attempting to read what drivers are about to do. Since children can not read these patterns, they will be uniquely unable to perceive them and at grave risk of serious or fatal injury especially during the morning. Reconfiguration bottleneck theory establishes an interesting paradox about the flow of vehicular traffic, which even when “adding a new road segment to an existing network of roadways can under certain circumstances reduce the car-carrying capacity of the network as a whole.” (and we are taking away multiple access points and streets.. See Physic of Gridlock, which is now being taught by colleges training future Traffic Planners by Stephen Budiansky). In summary what will happen is that as traffic slows down to make their turns other behind the begin to brake and this cause a flow of breaks upstream, while others will swerve around to change into faster lanes which as they brake, will even more rapidly cause a braking flow back upstream. Correct now has up a web site that is open to all explaining what the result of each change has in significant detail, specifically in the Park Ridge forum of drivers where they may enter question, reply to others and post comments and polls. CORRECTS will meet with IDOT as well as our other Illinois Sate Representative to ensure that safety and traffic flow will be preserved. However, the current traffic plan supposedly has been approved based on a desire by the City of Park Ridge to proceed with the reconfiguration, based upon a faulty and misleading Traffic Study and the seconded opinion of the City's hired Traffic Consultant, but was challenged as a whole by Summit Retirement's Consultant who applied the "Physic of Gridlock". CORRECTS has been told of some questionable of some City Officials and Employees and the various Developers. While we make no claim of impropriety we are asking web visitors or others to report any relationship which mat be used to overturn any authorized sale as per The Illinois Supreme Court opinion asserting that “The objectionable interest could consist of any one of numerous interests which would be inconsistent with and repugnant to the duty of the officer to render to the public faithful and impartial service." While we support the uptown Development, if it is not part of a master plan to improve the ambience and integrate the whole of uptown, the loss of this project would simply permit a more favorable solution. The loss of innocent school children lives or other injuries is simply to great a price to pay for what at best is projected to add $100,000 a year to city coffers on their investment and which will create 30 defined and affected intersection and become a disservice to our community.
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