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Traffic calming on neighborhood streets

In a recent post about the benefits of a gridiron street system, Beth Akeson left some supporting comments and said:

Let’s explore how other communities are handling these issues and learn from their successes and failures. We can always tweak the ideas to accommodate the “uniqueness” of Peoria. I have learned so much from reading, attending [...]

Trib and Chronicle readers agree: Recall Blago …and others

The Chicago Tribune ran a follow-up to their Sunday editorial where they asked readers if Illinois should amend its constitution to allow the governor to be recalled. I found it interesting that the responses the Tribune got were remarkably similar to the responses Chronicle readers left here, showing that upstate, downstate, Republicans and Democrats [...]

How do you grade Peoria’s traffic signals?

A couple of weeks ago, the City of Peoria released this information about the city’s traffic signals:

The American Public Works Association (APWA), as part of the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC), participated in the release of the 2007 Traffic Signal Report Card during a press conference on October 9, 2007 in Washington D.C. Nationwide, the [...]