Roadway safety in the burbs with the expanding roads

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Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on February 25, 2012 at 2:09pm

I just used Google street view to look at the intersection mentioned in the flyer here, North & Bloomingdale (Glendale Heights).  Yikes!  What a disaster for pedestrians and cyclists!  Yeah, a little paint delineating the crosswalk is definitely needed here, as are pedestrian-friendly stoplights.  If I lived in the area, I'd be sorely tempted to do a little midnight street striping on my own, just to save a few lives.

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Permalink Reply by John Wirtz on February 26, 2012 at 1:25pm

That website makes me feel like I'm in 1997.

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Permalink Reply by globalguy on February 26, 2012 at 4:12pm

I'm gonna' take a look at this.  As a new denizen of Oak Park I've been exploring to the West and South - there are some really SCARY streets out there. Perhaps a support group for newly transplanted Chicagoans?

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Permalink Reply by Friends of the GWTs on February 26, 2012 at 5:43pm

The important issue (besides the website design) is that IDOT continues to plan for road expansions that has intersections up to 9 lanes wide because of multiple turn lanes and without crosswalks. Butterfield Rd/Rte 56 is getting that treatment now. Unless the local municipalities like Villa Park and Lombard in most cases in DuPage Cty step up (pun intended) and request crosswalks IDOT is not required to do so. As a result the 4 lane roads that were easy to get across even without crosswalks are now very dangerous for pedestrians and bicycle riders.

Please pass along the www.saferoadways.net web page to anyone and feel free to link it to any other web page.

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Permalink Reply by Friends of the GWTs on February 26, 2012 at 5:45pm

With 9 lanes across at that intersection and usually busy traffic around the clock striping it would be at least difficult and certainly dangerous.

Thunder Snow said:

I just used Google street view to look at the intersection mentioned in the flyer here, North & Bloomingdale (Glendale Heights).  Yikes!  What a disaster for pedestrians and cyclists!  Yeah, a little paint delineating the crosswalk is definitely needed here, as are pedestrian-friendly stoplights.  If I lived in the area, I'd be sorely tempted to do a little midnight street striping on my own, just to save a few lives.

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