Monday, September 10, 2001
7:30 PM
Village of Lombard
Village Hall
Transportation & Safety Committee
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 |
Meeting Minutes
Transportation & Safety Committee
Meeting Minutes
September 10, 2001
1.0
Call to Order and Roll Call
Chairperson Soderstrom called the meeting to order at 7:31 pm. Introduced member Art |
Kuehl. Lt. Jim Glennon in attendance for Dane Cuny. |
Chairperson Trustee Rick Soderstrom, Greg Gron, Ed Bedard, John Schwarz, |
Arthur Kuehl and William Lepins |
Present:
Vice Chairperson Trustee Steven D. Sebby and William Pool
Absent:
2.0
Public Participation
3.0
Approval of Minutes
Minutes from the August 6, 2001 meeting.
It was moved by Schwarz, seconded by Bedard, to approve. The motion carried |
by a voice vote |
4.0
Unfinished Business
Soderstrom: Main Street study will only be partially completed. It will be done along |
with the construction on Main. |
5.0
New Business
010637
Johnson: Ran traffic counts out there for 24 hours. Also, ran Washington close to Grace |
St. Passed out counts for E/B & W/B Washington east of Edgewood (posted 30 mph). |
E/B average is 26 mph. W/B average is 28 mph. Washington west of Grace Street |
(posted 25 mph) E/B average is 26 mph. W/B average is 26 mph. People will travel at |
the speed that they feel comfortable and safe. Unfortunately, sometimes we take a safe |
driver and make him an unsafe driver by lowering a speed limit unnecessarily. Lepins: I |
drive this street at 5 AM and people seem to be going 50 mph compared to my 25 mph. |
Possibly putting the electronic police speed board out there with occasional speed |
enforcement would make the drivers more aware. Schwarz: This study is from 10 AM |
to 10 AM next day, so that period would be included. Johnson: Some people are going |
to drive the way they want no matter what. Lowering a speed limit is not the answer. |
Do you lower speed limit on 30 mph stretch or raise speed limit on 25mph stretch? |
Schwarz: Once you have an established speed limit for a long period of time, you would |
only cause problems by raising that speed limit. I think we should just address the issue |
here of Washington from Addison to Edgewood. |
It was moved by Gron, seconded by Schwarz, that this matter be recommended |
to the Board of Trustees for denial. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye:
Gron, Schwarz, Kuehl and Lepins
4 -
Nay:
Bedard
1 -
Absent:
Sebby and Pool
2 -
Enactment No: Ordinance 5018 Washi |
010638
Johnson: Cannot put a crosswalk in to a place where there is no sidewalk. Sidewalk |
extensions need to be put in before I can go in and stripe them. Lepins: Busses drop off |
there, and this could be a potentially dangerous situation for a child out there. Johnson: |
There are a lot of lead ins to the street but no actual sidewalks. Engineering staff said it |
will be tricky but it could be done. Possible for this year, definite for next year. Need |
recommendations from the committee. Soderstrom asked Officer Glennon for his |
suggestions as to where to put in the crosswalks. Gron: As a pedestrian I would |
suggest east side of Edgewood to West side of Washington. Far North and far South |
leg of intersection. |
It was moved by Gron, seconded by Lepins, that this matter be recommended to |
the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye:
Gron, Bedard, Schwarz, Kuehl and Lepins
5 -
Absent:
Sebby and Pool
2 -
010639
Johnson: Request came from resident to LPD and LPD has been out to this area. |
Occasionally, when there have been football games, etc. out here, parking on east side |
of road and on cut outs, creates a very narrow roadway for emergency vehicles. Gron: |
What is the width of this road? Johnson: This is not a village street. Lepins: Where |
parking lanes stop and you bottleneck, that is very narrow. I parked there with my van |
and there is not enough room for this type of parking. Gron: Is this park district |
property? Johnson: Yes, but we own part of this as an easement. Also, we do help out |
park district with signage at times. Glennon: This started from one of the CSO's and |
there is no way you can get an emergency vehicle through this area. Johnson: Both |
curves are included in this on Lilac Way and Chase Lane to the corner. Kuehl: Clarified |
area to be posted "No Parking". Driveway at 603 or 604 will not be inconvenienced by |
this will they? Johnson: It will start at that area. Schwarz: Will the police department |
be able to enforce this "No Parking"? Glennon: Yes. Soderstrom: Asked John |
Johnson to notify the Park District of this intent. |
It was moved by Kuehl, seconded by Lepins, that this matter be recommended |
to the Board of Trustees for approval. The motion carried by the following vote: |
Aye:
Gron, Bedard, Schwarz, Kuehl and Lepins
5 -
Absent:
Sebby and Pool
2 -
Enactment No: Ordinance 5020 "No P |
6.0
Other Business
Johnson: Edson & Harrison and 17th & LaLonde - 2 traffic studies that I am working on. |
17th & LaLonde requested by Trustee Koenig. |
Kuehl: What is the ordinance for side streets for speed limit 25 or 30 mph? Glennon: |
30 mph unless otherwise posted. That is regulated by State. |
Glennon: I would like the committee to look at the situation at Cruise Nights. Very |
dangerous situation out there. Would like to investigate possibly going with one way |
posting out there. Bedard: Which way would it be best? Glennon: majority feel it needs |
to flow east. Lepins: Best thing to do would be to look at the situation when it is at it's |
busiest. Need to look at this while Cruise Nights is going on. |
7.0
Information Only
8.0
Adjournment
It was moved by Gron, seconded by Bedard, to adjourn meeting at 8:24 pm.. The |
motion carried by a voice vote |