Give those moms at Lester Elementary School points for political savvy. PTA president Denise McCann asked the village council Tuesday for its help in resolving the school’s repeated concerns about safety on Lincoln Avenue, which runs along the north side of the school. The village earlier addressed similar concerns about Indianapolis Street on the school’s [...]
Seven miles per gallon sounds like every driver’s worst nightmare. But when it comes to the village’s new buses, 7 mpg is something to celebrate. Interim public works director Robin Weaver told the village council the 28-passenger buses, which run on ultra low emission diesel fuel, get more than double the mileage the old buses [...]
The village council Tuesday night confirmed the appointment of seven residents to the Transportation and Parking Committee. Larry Gress and John Wendt will co-chair the new committee. They were appointed to three-year terms along with Anthony Schiller. David Stuebner and Christopher Saricks were appointed to two-year terms, while Mark Cronin and Sheryl Van Anne will [...]
Look for the mayor to finally appoint members to the new Transportation and Parking Commission at tonight’s village council meeting. TAP replaces the Parking and Traffic Commission (PAT?), which ceased operations in December 2007. In the interim, the council has approved expenditures for traffic calming devices, recommendations for use of which will be made by [...]
Following a national trend, the village council will begin considering whether to install cameras on traffic lights in an attempt to persuade scofflaws of the disadvantages of gunning it through the red light. Council members agreed that the time has come to look into the controversial move, which uses cameras mounted above traffic lights to [...]
Six years of hard work paid off in the best possible way Thursday when the Illinois Department of Transportation agreed to cover the Belmont underpass project’s $8.3 million funding shortfall. DuPage County Board chairman Robert Schillerstrom was instrumental in bringing Downers Grove officials and state legislators together with IDOT secretary Milt Sees, who stunned the [...]
It’s a big flashing green light for the long-awaited Belmont Underpass project. After the failure of the Illinois Works capital bill, village officials were able to convince the Illinois Department of Transportation to ante up most of what is needed to get the project going. Mark Thoman broke the story on his blog after a [...]
I’ve always had my doubts about the Grove Shuttle, that perennial drain on tax dollars that carries maybe 150 riders to and from the train stations every day. But the circulator bus service described at last night’s Village Council workshop session? I like it, I really, really like it. True, “no transportation system in the [...]
Will someone explain for me why parents of high school kids find it necessary to drop off said children at the front door of the school? I know parents of second-graders who trust their kids to walk farther than that. We usually avoid the Forest Avenue cul de sac by North High for just this [...]
There were some pretty riled commuters earlier this week when a train stopped west of the Main Street station caused crossing gates to remain down, holding up foot traffic for interminable minutes. Many of those pedestrians chose to miss their train — and meetings, conference calls and face time at the office–rather than dodge the [...]
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