Middleton Crosswalk Petition Raises Bigger Safety Questions
Residents are also asking the Village to revisit every Skokie school zone and increase signage and other traffic slowing techniques.
Following the death of Carter Vo, Skokie residents have again taken up a petition to make crosswalks around Middleton School safer. The initiative has been started by Melina Kelson, who managed a similar petition in the fall. After Kelson and several others collected 200 signatures by going door-to-door around October, they presented the document to the mayor. Within 48-hours of the newer petition, Kelson said they've received 100 signatures. "In the fall they ended up doing a traffic study—the village was thorough and responsive; however they didn't give us everyting we requested," Kelson told Patch. Authorities put in signage that was smaller and less distinctive, according to Kelson. "We had wanted these huge white signs that say 'stop …
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Earl Weiss
12:02 pm on Friday, June 8, 2012
Anybody have a link to a report on the bus accident describing how it happened? Which vehicles traveling which way on which streets? How many accidents at this intersection in the last 30 years? Conclusions from coincidences and statistics are problematic. There is a town in England where the number of mesting storks coincides with the number of births. - true. more ›