A More "Complete" Madison Street?
Consultants lay out vision for less traffic and more bike lanes on one of Oak Park's busiest thoroughfares.
How do you use Madison Street? Before you answer that, consider some stats: The east-west corridor is four lanes of traffic between Harlem Avenue and Austin Boulevard, interrupted by eight stoplights. An average of about 17,000 vehicles travel the road everyday, and an estimated 25 to 30 percent of that traffic won't stop while passing through Oak Park. “It’s turning into a standard strip,” said Josephine Bellalta, cofounder of Altmanu, Inc., a design firm that's sketching out a redesign of Madison Street. “Is that what we want?” Well? Is it? That's a question pondered by the committee overseeing what could be a major overhaul to one of Oak Park's most heavily trafficked thoroughfares. Related: A Bike Route from Oak Park to Chicago? The …
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4:34 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
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