Village Hall |
255 East Wilson Ave. |
Lombard, IL 60148 |
villageoflombard.org |
Trustee Rick Soderstrom, Chairperson |
Trustee Steven D.Sebby, Vice Chairperson |
Greg Gron, Thomas Gibbons, John Schwarz |
Arthur Kuehl and William Lepins,Thomas Murphy |
Staff Liaisons: Deputy Chief Dane Cuny, Patrol Division, Police, |
Justine Gembala, Civil Engineer, Public Works |
Trustee John M. Jaugilas, Trustee Paul Kufrin Jr, resigned William Bergeron, |
resigned Dolores Kempa Cassidy, Greg Gron and William Pool |
Harry Gilmore Civiltech Engineering |
Gary Rothbart Rothbart Realty |
R. Tremunde 1003 S. Edson, Lombard |
It was moved by Pool, seconded by resigned Bergeron, to approve. The motion |
carried by a voice vote |
Johnson: Addison has been looking at possibility of adding train station for years; |
nothing solid in the works right now. Rothbart: Need the traffic light at Lombard Rd. |
Also, has had showings of property in North Industrial Park (promoted in Lombard Pride |
articles) but is losing prospects due to traffic being so bad at Main and North Ave. |
Mainly truck ingress and egress. Committee has kept promises with new striping and |
signs but the nightmare still exists. This intersection needs to be squared off/either |
assess businesses or find another way to get financing to perform this. Short term |
solutions have helped/need a long term solution. More people are looking at property in |
this industrial area/Village is promoting Industrial Park. Johnson: Main and North Ave. |
needs to be addressed. Kufrin: Could this wait for North Ave. resurfacing? Pool: |
Possibly a 3-way light at this intersection would help? Have Frontage Rd. traffic |
proceed, then have other streets go. Johnson: putting a light at Frontage Rd. and then |
having lights at Main and North/too close together. Kufrin: Public Works needs to |
become involved. Burg: This would involve a wide scope of work/nothing funded in the |
CIP for this. Cassidy: Will Main Street be improved with North Ave. resurfacing project? |
Johnson: Frontage Rd. will be gone completely with this project. But Main St. is still our |
problem. This intersection needs to be redesigned for semi-truck traffic. Could be |
redesigned in house or by a consulting firm. Cassidy: IDOT won't pay for any of these |
improvements? Johnson: No. Could handle as a Special Service Area/have |
businesses fund the improvements. Kufrin: Should we bring this to the Board for |
funding feasibility? Johnson: That should be the next step. Kufrin: John Johnson, John |
Jaugilas and myself will get together as to what we want to present to the Board. |
Depends on what measures we can take vs. cost. We know there is a problem there! |
Pool: Let's just send this item to the Board without any recommendation. Let's give this |
man (Gary Rothbart) a chance for action or consideration. Gilmore: I thought that the |
Connector Rd. was to replace Frontage Rd. Rothbart: No. Tried that, didn't work. |
Kufrin: After we talk, will send copies of proposal to committee members, and have on |
our agenda for January. Rothbart: copies of any studies re: widening costs, etc. |
Johnson: I saw a preliminary drawing from IDOT's plans/there is a lot involved with this. |
Gron: Concerned with the feasibility of this study/could go on to 2000. Then a year to |
complete with large amounts of money involved. Then IDOT does the North Ave. |
project and tears up all of our work. Kufrin: the feasibility study will be for temporary |
relief. If not economically expedient, we cannot go ahead. Possibly our staff could do |
the study. Cassidy: North Ave. improvement is a plan/physical plan does exist. Can |
we adapt the relief to the new plans for North Ave.? Kufrin: will consider in our |
feasibility study. Rothbart: Thanks for a possible temporary solution. |
Enactment No: Ordinance 4534 Yield |
Johnson: Performed traffic studies on eastbound Wilson/east of Elizabeth. Ran on |
weekdays and week-ends. Volume counts are 96% accurate. Need to take in to |
account that this a route used by police cars when responding to calls. Gron: having |
that many cars going that fast is ridiculous. Should install speed bumps every 10 feet. |
Johnson: some cars realized counters were out there and went around them. That is |
why we ran the study on weekdays and week-ends. Majority of cars were traveling 33 |
miles per hour/tracks all the way thru all traffic counters. Jaugilas: Speed could be |
police responding to calls...Dane, how many do you think you have in this time frame? |
Cuny: It's difficult to say. Wilson is a main feeder for police cars responding to |
emergency calls. Jaugilas: just an estimate? Cuny: 60,000 calls per year/50-60 calls |
per day total. Jaugilas: would account for 20-40 cars per day over speed limit. |
Cassidy: Seems most of the fast moving vehicles are between 11-3 and then around 6 |
am. Kufrin: we have a major problem here. Majority are moving 35 miles per hour or |
so. Maybe we need to lower the speed. Cuny: average vehicle is traveling 33 m/p/h. |
Any major street will have these spikes. Cannot get absolute compliance to speed laws. |
Jaugilas: between 12-2 is when the majority of spiked speeds occur. Kufrin: both |
eastbound and westbound. Pool: around 500 cars are breaking the law at 10 m/p/h and |
over in a 72 hour period. Jaugilas: could be resolved as an enforcement issue between |
12-2. Cuny: we did enforcement, decoy cars, etc. Gave citations, but not always same |
people speeding. Jaugilas: is it the high school kids? Termunde: No, the kids are |
great. It's the adults that are speeding. When the PD had the speed sign up, it slowed |
them down. It stops them from speeding. Kufrin: sounds like we need more police |
enforcement. Cassidy: asked Mr. Termunde what he thought would correct this |
problem. Termunde: More police cars or a stop signs on Wilson. Cassidy: is a stop |
sign warranted? Johnson: not really. Pool: put in speed bumps. Bergeron: this is like |
a 3rd rush hour/people putting in time on their lunch hours. Cassidy: what is the criteria |
for a stop sign? Johnson: gave criteria. Would slow down traffic right before and after |
stop sign. Statistics show that unwarranted stop signs cause people to accelerate their |
speeds. Cassidy: would a 2-way stop sign work? Johnson: need to stop everyone or |
stop no one. Pool: make Wilson a one way street. Jaugilas: what about speed |
bumps? Johnson: speed bumps are out. With a speed hump a car traveling 30 m/p/h |
would be ok; at 35 m/p/h would feel something. Must constantly be maintained/signed |
and marked and also well engineered. Some states are starting to put in islands in the |
middle of the street to slow down traffic. Kufrin: Does the study show any way to go? |
Am inclined to go with Bunni's suggestion for a stop sign. Cuny: traffic safety/accidents |
are just not there. Would create a potential for further accidents by installing |
unwarranted stop signs. Don't like speeding any better than anyone but a stop sign |
could cause rear end accidents to increase/create a safety hazard. Cassidy: Dane did |
a good job on Westmore towards Eastgate when we had problems out there. Solution |
does not happen over night. Let's give it a length of time for increase enforcement. |
Jaugilas: Advise PD to increase enforcement/keep up publicity on profile of this area. |
Traffic tickets tend to slow people down. Kufrin: Our next media challenge is the |
"speeders". Dane to talk to Chief Kutzke about that. Jaugilas: let people know about |
the intersections the police are watching. Pool: if you are going to use unmanned |
cars/should purchase some mannequins. Jaugilas: works with a mannequin. |
Termunde: when a car was there on Saturday, it really slowed them down. Jaugilas: a |
media campaign of speeding throughout the Village. Cuny: speeding is a constant |
problem; we try to put our resources where we are best served. Cassidy: it takes time. |
Termunde: I wish the officers could be less visible. Cassidy: let's give Dane a time |
limit. Committee directed Cuny and staff to do further traffic enforcement, media |
campaign and then perform a new traffic study. |
Enactment No: Ordinance 4574 "No B |
Kufrin: Village Board directed no further action on this issue. Johnson: Civiltech's |
presentation addresses the safety issue at this location, not the capacity issue. |
Bergeron: wasn't the contractor working on new subdivision supposed to put some work |
in to this? Johnson: no. Jaugilas: let's at least listen to Civiltech's presentation. Harry |
Gilmore from Civiltech went over presentation that was enclosed with agenda packets. |
Jaugilas: we should wait and see what happens once the "No Left Turn" signs are |
installed here. If there is a high violation rate of people turning anyway, etc. this could |
cause even more accidents. Pool: people not familiar with this area could also miss the |
signs. Kufrin: suggested to John Johnson that this matter be tabled and addressed |
again in 3-4 months. The Board seemed to be in agreement that we are trying to avoid |
traffic going through these neighborhoods. Let's look at this again in April or May. |
Bergeron: we would like to see copies of the survey results. |
It was moved by Pool, seconded by resigned Bergeron, that this matter be tabled. |
The motion carried by a voice vote |
Enactment No: Oridinance 4575 Rout |
ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LOMBARD TRAFFIC CODE |
It was moved by Pool, seconded by Gron, that this matter be recommended to |
the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by a voice vote |
Enactment No: Ordinance 4581"No Pa |
Bill Pool informed the committee that he will be on vacation for the next 3 months. Bunni |
Cassidy addressed the committee about the pedestrian crossing lights for Prairie Path |
at Main and at Westmore. Jaugilas responded that the long and short of it was the |
Village Board policy is now "no lights at any pedestrian path". The concenses of the |
committee was to readress this issue in the summer time; put on the June or July |
agenda. |
It was moved by Pool, seconded by Gron, to adjourn the meeting at 9:12 pm. |
Next meeting is scheduled for 1/4/99. The motion carried by a voice vote |