The goal of the project is create a Home Zone on the 2400 block of Albany Avenue in Chicago, IL
Please read more about the project and read our blog posts below. If you live on the block (or even if you don't), please join in on the conversation! We're trying to make our neighborhood better and every voice counts.
By Chris McNamara Special to the Tribune
January 13, 2010
From the porch of Julie Dworkin's Logan Square home, Albany Avenue looks cozy and inviting.
The final approved design is now on the Design page. We were lucky to have an alderman who was already primed to be supportive of this kind of initiative because of other bicycle and pedestrian activism in the ward. Ultimately, though it was the support of so many neighbors on the block that made it happen.
The Time Out Article has come out. See the story on Time Out's site here.
Bicycle advocates transform their block into a no-danger zone.
By John Greenfield Photograph by Marina Makropoulos
Everyone should be thinking about getting out and collecting signatures for the block redesign. The goal is to have them all in by June 1st.
Time Out Chicago will be doing a story about the Home Zone for an upcoming issue. They want to get a picture of our street and the people living here.
Please come on out on Thursday, May 14th at 6pm to get your picture taken.
After much back and forth with CDOT we think we have a design (see last blog entry) that addresses a lot of the concerns that have been raised. This design only loses two parking spots, it will slow down traffic significantly, it has the pull-in parking, it creates some new green space, and it breaks up the diagonal parking so it is not all in one solid line. At this point CDOT has provided a cost estimate of $100,000-$150,000.
We talked to Rick Plenge of CDOT today and he said he did a redesign where the diagonal parking was flipped to the other side of the street. The new design looses two additional parking spots. Nothing is finalized, of course.
The two versions are attached below. 'Option 1' is the version with the parking on the same side; 'Option 2' has the flipped parking.
Note that this new version has pull-in parking rather than the back-in of the previous design.
The meeting on 2/11/2009 was sparsely attended.
We discussed the latest plan from CDOT (see last blog posting).
Attached is Rick Plenge's redo of the design for the street. He did not get approval for the narrower stalls, so we do lose some of the green space which was already pretty minimal. For comparison, here is his original design.
