Village of Lombard Legistar System

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.

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.