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The Lake St. Repaving Project, overall, will theoretically last 50 years. However, putting the Sears Building on-line will, over the course of those years, change the configurations at Lake and Chicago and surrounding blocks several times. You only need look at University and Snelling's progression over the last 20 or so years to see some of the possible configurations. I did, on a trip to city hall about Lake St. Make sure the mayor heard that. The people surrounding him, engineers, city staff, and who all else I can't remember, all noded their heads.Forwarded with permission of the author:
I just had a meeting with Dan Niziolek, and it sounds like a bit mistake is about to made on Lake Street. ... This project will affect Lake Street for 50 years, and deserves further discussion about what is best for everyone, not just impatient motorists. Jay Waljasper
The street's motorists may be impatient, but when cars are sitting at the lights at Chicago-Lake, it's hard for everyone in the intersection to breathe. When cars sit at Chicago-Lake they are also bcked up at Portland, Park, Eliot, and Tenth. You should have been at Chicago-Lake the day an unloading semi blocked Lake St. at 4th. Av. We were coughing, eyes tearing and itching, and the smell was something else. Pedestrians want to keep the traffic moving as much as motorists do--for our health. Traffic backs up especially on Friday afternoons. I cannot come out on my porch at Oakland and Lake without my oxygen tank.
If you will, take a walk through the Lake and Chicago intersection some time and tell me afterwards what kind of street life Niziolek, Lilligren, and Zimmerman, and you are trying to preserve. The police and the neighbors have been working for years to disrupt the pedestrian life around Chicago-Lake.
WizardMarks, Central Rep. to the Lake St. PAC One of the "they"
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