A little more than two decades after a horrific accident at the Grand Avenue railway crossing, the Village of Elmwood Park presented its plan for an underpass and pedestrian overpass
I have lived on 76 Ave for 33 years, the underpass will solve the issue of cars getting stopped on the tracks. The problem has always been the amount of traffic going east on Grand Ave into Chicago getting backed up because of all the traffic lights to get to Harlem Ave after the crossing. Because of all the traffic now turning left on north 76 Ave to Diversey Ave then goes into Chicago happens. The left turn lane to north 76Ave should have been eliminated along time ago. Now with all the foot traffic at the intersection with Culver’s and the Metra crosswalk to the trains and the occasional back up from the car wash.. slows turning traffic even more. Marwood Ave and that open land along side of the tracks west of the crossing all the way to First Ave should have been used as by-passes during stopped trains. These 3 sets of tracks cut our town in half and traffic during stopped train become extremely more dangerous on our side streets.
Yeah , my neighbor told me as we were headed out for the day. We have the app for USPS that puts out the mail you are supposed to receive the next day. It’s about as reliable as a weather forecast….
How it looks like is not relevant as long as it is functionally built correctly. Also what does the addition of retail to the area have to do with this project? This is to improve traffic and make it a less dangerous crossing. All that is just going to muddy the water on the project.
When form becomes the driving concern you end up with the issues we see on the walkways on LSD which are already in rough shape and only a decade or two old. They look pretty but choose form over what in the past was a flat walk way with chain link that lasted decades and did not cost the tax pays maintenance money to keep up.
As long as it functions as it should and keeps the flow of traffic going and reduces the chance of some idiot stopping in the tracks because they are impatient that is the goal.
As a resident of this town for nearly 40 years now this will be such a improvement to the traffic issues. This has been talked about since the 80's it is great to see it moving forward.
For the teens on the north side you do have my condolences. For now that free pass of being late because of a train will no longer be a option. I used that so many times in my EPHS and Elm years.
Diaz is 100% spot on. What is EP Village’s professionally designed plan to create a space that benefits the community and encourages walkability and retail. Not another eyesore that isn’t thought out. Let the community share ideas.
This is basically a cd1 project. Once they move past that a set of engineering plans will come out. Usually accompanyied by some renderings of what they plan on it looking like.
I have lived on 76 Ave for 33 years, the underpass will solve the issue of cars getting stopped on the tracks. The problem has always been the amount of traffic going east on Grand Ave into Chicago getting backed up because of all the traffic lights to get to Harlem Ave after the crossing. Because of all the traffic now turning left on north 76 Ave to Diversey Ave then goes into Chicago happens. The left turn lane to north 76Ave should have been eliminated along time ago. Now with all the foot traffic at the intersection with Culver’s and the Metra crosswalk to the trains and the occasional back up from the car wash.. slows turning traffic even more. Marwood Ave and that open land along side of the tracks west of the crossing all the way to First Ave should have been used as by-passes during stopped trains. These 3 sets of tracks cut our town in half and traffic during stopped train become extremely more dangerous on our side streets.
We just got the post card in the mail “ today “ about the meeting for the underpass update last week….
That could explain why less than 100 people in the village showed up for the open house —Kevin Gosztola
My neighbor at the end of our block got hers today.
Yeah , my neighbor told me as we were headed out for the day. We have the app for USPS that puts out the mail you are supposed to receive the next day. It’s about as reliable as a weather forecast….
How it looks like is not relevant as long as it is functionally built correctly. Also what does the addition of retail to the area have to do with this project? This is to improve traffic and make it a less dangerous crossing. All that is just going to muddy the water on the project.
When form becomes the driving concern you end up with the issues we see on the walkways on LSD which are already in rough shape and only a decade or two old. They look pretty but choose form over what in the past was a flat walk way with chain link that lasted decades and did not cost the tax pays maintenance money to keep up.
As long as it functions as it should and keeps the flow of traffic going and reduces the chance of some idiot stopping in the tracks because they are impatient that is the goal.
As a resident of this town for nearly 40 years now this will be such a improvement to the traffic issues. This has been talked about since the 80's it is great to see it moving forward.
For the teens on the north side you do have my condolences. For now that free pass of being late because of a train will no longer be a option. I used that so many times in my EPHS and Elm years.
Diaz is 100% spot on. What is EP Village’s professionally designed plan to create a space that benefits the community and encourages walkability and retail. Not another eyesore that isn’t thought out. Let the community share ideas.
This is basically a cd1 project. Once they move past that a set of engineering plans will come out. Usually accompanyied by some renderings of what they plan on it looking like.
These are pretty standard CD1 level cartoons