Record #: SO2018-6065   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 7/25/2018 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety
Final action: 7/25/2018
Title: Traffic warning sign(s)/(signals) – establish
Sponsors: Harris, Michelle A., Burke, Edward M., Lopez, Raymond A., Tabares, Silvana, Ervin, Jason C., Reboyras, Ariel, Austin, Carrie M., Laurino, Margaret, O'Connor, Patrick, Napolitano, Anthony V., Tunney, Thomas
Attachments: 1. SO2018-6065.pdf
Related files: Or2014-470, Or2017-609, Or2018-154, Or2018-255, Or2018-259, Or2018-263, Or2018-272, O2018-4923, Or2018-317, Or2018-328, Or2018-329, Or2018-330, Or2018-331, Or2018-332, Or2018-333, O2018-5972

TRAFFIC WARNING SIGN AND/OR SIGNALS

 

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

 

 

SECTION 1. , Pursuant to Title 9, Chapter 64, ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago, that the Commissioner of Transportation is hereby authorized and directed to erect and/or amend Traffic Warning Signs and Signals, for the following.locations are hereby designated:

 

 

WARD                     TRAFFIC WARNING SIGNS AND/OR SIGNALS:

8                     East 78th Street and South Maryland Avenue; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All

Approaches -- (1.8-01729418) [Or2018-263]

West 48th Street and South Campbell Avenue; All Way Stop Sign Stopping All Approaches -- (18-01731543) [Or2018-259]

South Wolcott Avenue and West 43rd Street; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All Approaches [Or2018-328]

15                     South Hoyne Avenue and West 49th Place; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All

Approaches [Or2018-329]

15                     West 48th Street and South Campbell Avenue; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All

Approaches [Or2018-330]

15                     West Pope John Paul II Drive and South Fairfield Avenue; All Way Stop Sign,

Stopping All Approaches [Or2018-331]

15                     West Pope John Paul II Drive and South Washtenaw Avenue; All Way Stop Sign,

Stopping All Approaches [Or2018-332]

 

15                     South Francisco Avenue and West 42nd Street; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping

All Approaches [Or2018-333]

23                     South Homan Avenue and West 61st Street; Two Way Stop Sign, Stopping

north and southbound traffic [Or2018-317]

 

28                     West 5th Avenue and South Whipple Street; All Way Stop, Stopping All Approaches.

Not Recommended. CDOT does not recommend stop signs on the main line of T-intersections due to low stop compliance. Additionally, due to the intersection's proximity to the traffic signal at West 5th Avenue and South Sacramento Boulevard, motorists will likely speed to catch the green light and disregard the stop sign (18-01131889) [Or2018-154]

30                     North Lamon Avenue and West Warwick Avenue; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All

Approaches - (18-01728925) [Or2014-470]

 

34

South Laflin Avenue and West 122nd Street; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All !    Approaches -- (18-01738166) [Or2018-272]

 

 

WARD

TRAFFIC WARNING SIGNS AND/OR SIGNALS CONT'D:

 

North Rodgers Avenue and North Kenneth Avenue; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All Approaches [02018-5972]

North Ravenswood Avenue and West Highland Avenue; Stop Sign, Stopping northbound traffic on North Ravenswood Avenue at West Highland Avenue. Not Recommended. CDOT does not recommend stop signs on the main line of T-intersections due to low stop compliance - (17-08067949)'[Or2017-609]

West Jarvis Avenue and North Oconto Avenue; All Way Stop Sign, Stopping All Approaches - (18-01738362) [Or2018-255]

44                     West Grace Street at North Bosworth Avenue; Stop Sign, Stopping Eastbound traffic

on West Grace Street at North Bosworth Avenue. Not Recommended. CDOT does not recommend stop signs on the main line of T-intersections due to low stop compliance. Stopping eastbound traffic would result in confusing traffic operations at this intersection - (18-01831542) [02018-4923]

 

 

 

SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force here in after its passage and publication.

 

CHICAGO, JULY 25, 2018

 

 

To the President and Members of the City Council:

 

Your Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety, to which were referred proposed ordinance(s) and/or order(s) to erect and/or amend Traffic Warning Signs and Signals, begs leave to recommend that Your Honorable Body DO PASS the proposed substitute ordinance(s) and/or order(s) submitted herewith.

 

 

This recommendation was concurred in by all members of the Committee present, with no dissenting votes.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Walter Burnett, Jr. Chairman,

Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety