Transportation Advisory Board - Regular Meeting

I would like to call the transportation advisory board meeting for 05/07/2026 to order. Staff, may you please conduct the roll call?

Mister Hurley? Here. Mister Krasinski? Here. Miss Nier?

Here.

Mister Neibel? Mister Strom? Here. Mister Olger? Here. Miss Rose?

Here.

Mister Webb? Here. Councilman McBroom? Here. Student member Sokolowski?

Here.

We have a quorum.

Wonderful. Thank you. So we have a quorum, and the meeting is officially called to order. I'd like to start by thanking everyone for coming out this evening, staff, members of the board, well as the public. I am sitting in the seat where the former chair Brian Laird was.

Unfortunately, since the last meeting, he had a job opportunity in California and has moved away. So I am temporarily in this seat as this and board member Webb is intended to be our last meeting as we were terming out after six great years of serving on the board. It's been our pleasure. However, there may be an opportunity to extend that pending availability of other board members. So we'll say maybe goodbye tonight.

Also, I would like to say goodbye to board member Nigel, who has decided no longer to participate, and our student member Alexander Sokolowski. So thank you very much for your service. K. The first order of business tonight is the public forum. During the public forum, members of the public have the opportunity to address the transportation advisory board on issues which are not part of tonight's agenda. Please keep your comments limited to three minutes. Staff, we do or staff, do we have any speakers signed up to speak as part of the public forum?

We have one speaker, Robbie King.

Just by show of hands, is is everyone okay with him passing out? Alright. Please do. You may provide staff as well.

All right. Well, thank you and good evening. My name is Robbie King. I am a resident of Chicago, but I happen to live I happen to work in Naperville. So I work a little bit off of Naperville Road and Warrenville Road at a company, an outdoor power equipment company.

So I commute from Chicago to Naperville using Pace bus routes 714 and 722 to and from Naperville Metro Station. Both routes drop off riders at the intersection of Naperville Road and Warrenville Road, but unfortunately there is no safe way to access or leave this bus stop. Whatever I I've noticed that there's no sidewalks, curb cuts that lead to the stop as well as no crosswalks at or near the intersection. The bus stop is located on a grass island in the middle of two busy roads and traffic rarely provides a safe gap to cross. While this is based on my experience, I believe that this issue likely exists elsewhere actually around the corner as well in another instance in Naperville and maybe a broader safety concern.

So I believe that this puts pedestrian safety at risk unnecessary risk might I add where they could be stranded or at worst hit by a vehicle so the implications of this and really you can you can see some diagrams that I've kind of put together to access relieve this bus stop pedestrians are forced into one of three unsafe options either cross a busy multi lane intersection of two roads with fast moving traffic jaywalk across the roadway which is such as what I do where there's no crosswalk at a place that is safe but also wait in the median and then walk a long distance is the third option to find an intersection that may or may not actually allow access to said bus stop. Since there's no safe option for people who are not able-bodied or children or for anybody being dropped off or picked up, I see at worst this situation unnecessarily puts lives at risk. At best, it adds unavoidable time and distance to a daily commute despite the presence of a nearby bus stop. And so you can see a few diagrams as well such as the Google Maps route. I've also highlighted the typical route where I cross to get to the bus stop.

And on the main page, I have some callouts for the bus stop. No sidewalk or curb cuts, then no crosswalks. Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much, Mr. King. While we have time, can the staff since I know that these roads are not the jurisdiction of the city of Naperville, but are within the limits of the city of Naperville, do you have any guidance for how this can be communicated to the jurisdictions that are responsible?

Yeah, so both Warrenville Road and Naperville Road are DuPage County highways. So the city doesn't have any jurisdiction at that intersection. But what we can do is forward this along to DuPage County. They are actually doing a road resurfacing project, which includes intersection improvements on Naperville Road this summer from I-eighty 8 to Ridgeland, Naper, Weeden. So they will be in that area. So there could be an opportunity potentially to sneak this in this year, but we will let them know tomorrow about this. And we have your email and contact information.

We'll take that

to you as well.

All right.

Thank you so much. And there's also around that same corner is another kind of bus stop where you can get stranded at. So I believe that's the 714 or the 722. Thank you.

Thank you. And, mister Percep, there's also the Naperville pedestrian and and bicycle plan that's being developed that would be inclusive of this as well. Correct? Yeah.

So the Napril or the bicycle and pedestrian project update or plan update is only dealing with roads that are in Naperville jurisdiction. That being said, we've had a lot of conversations with other jurisdictions that are adjacent to Naperville, including DuPage County. And they have made it very clear that they want to, in the future, develop Warrenville Road to have a little bit more bike friendly access. And that would include Naperville Road and Mill Street and Washington Street on our end just to ensure that Naperville residents have access to Danada and Herrick Lake. So I imagine in the future there will be improvements on this segment of road.

Thank you very much. Do you have any other public speakers? Public forum speakers?

There are no more public speakers.

Okay. We have no more public forum speakers. The public forum is now closed. Let the record state that we did not have written comments that were given to the board in advance of the meeting on on this topic. I we do have written statements that are were given on a different topic, though. When should we acknowledge those? Now or during whole business?

So any written comments? You can use this time now as a board if there are any discussion on any either written comments or any public forum that has occurred today. Okay.

So there were submitted written statements from Barbara Vetter of Naperville, Jintas Siddres of Naperville, Joseph McGarry of Naperville, Joseph Jurassi of Naperville, all regarding on street parking and some pro, some against. Was also a position statement for, the approval to recommend establish a two way stop control at the intersection of of we'll be talking about this evening, position of support for by Kevin Flynn. Our next order of business are the reports and recommendations. First up is agenda item two six dash zero five eight nine to approve the minutes of the 02/05/2026 Transportation Advisory Board meeting. I will entertain a motion to have a discussion on this item.

Do we have a motion and a second?

So moved.

Moved by mister Webb. Second. Second by mister Strom. Okay. Approved. Do we have any revisions or comments regarding the minutes? No? Okay. Staff, can we please have your roll call? All those favor and signifying by saying aye, and those opposed saying nay.

Mister Hurley? Aye. Mister Kruszwinski? Aye. Miss Niere?

Aye.

Mister Strom? Here. Aye. Pardon me. Mister Olger? Aye. Miss Rose?

Aye. Mister

Webb? Aye.

Motion passes, and we approve the minutes of the February as submitted. Next, we have the police department report from sergeant Muska.

Thank you. That's good seeing you. It's been I think last time I saw you all was December. So hope everyone's doing well. So since then, we've had three step grant activities, Christmas, New Year, St.

Pat's, and last month's April distracted driving awareness month. Combined with those three step grants, officers worked two forty one total hours, stopped three nineteen vehicles, issuing three twenty eight citations. During the April, distracted driving alone, 166 citations for distracted driving. We have 59, five nine on Route 59 enforcement day that's coming up, obviously, May 9, shockingly enough, this coming Saturday. So that is a partnership we work with.

Most jurisdictions who work along Route 59 will be participating in in their jurisdictions on Saturday. So you will see an increased enforcement efforts out there on that day. Another item of note that has kind of come to the forefront since January was obviously the implementation of the e bike ordinance. Slow start, obviously, beginning of the year with that, with the colder weather. We did have a couple random, really warm days in February.

So we had a couple of complaints come in and one crash involving an e scooter that did result in some non life threatening injuries to the scooter rider. March, we got one crash, no injuries, 16 complaints total that were trackable and that came in. Last month, we started to see a bit of an increase, up to 37 combined with, again, just one crash so far that month. I know we have one already in May. But I do seeing this trend and with the warmer weather and school getting out soon, we do expect an uptick in e bike, e scooter, e moto.

They're all different things, but same category kind of when it comes to our enforcement and the complaints we receive on them. So we are adding directed downtown enforcement on weekends that started a few weeks ago and will run through the summer. Additional officers will be down there handling directed complaints, parking garages, loud exhaust, e bikes. Our school resource officers are also posted down there in the summer when they're when, obviously, school's not in session. So there will be an increased police presence in the downtown area to help address complaints and keep everybody who's downtown and dining and enjoying their night out safe.

So that is it.

Thank you, sergeant Muska, and for you and the entire police department service of the city. Does Does anyone have any questions or

comments for sergeant Muska? Mister Webb? The crashes with the East Bicini scooters, I mean, age are we looking at with those?

So far, they're early to mid teens. One of the crashes was a hit and run where the offender was on one of these eMotos, like electric motorcycle, more or less. So we don't know that person's age. They were they were a part of a group, but I would assume same mid mid teenage age is is what we're seeing the most of. When they stop for us, when we try to stop them.

Any additional questions? Alright. Hearing none, we will close the police department report. Next, we have 260572 to approve a recommendation to establish two way stop control at the intersection of Bigfoot Lane, Bel Air Court, and Zaninger Avenue. And I believe, miss Smith, you have the floor.

Staff received a request from a resident to evaluate the right of way control at the intersect section of Bigfoot Lane slash Bellaire Court and Zaninger Avenue. This is a four leg intersection which currently has two way yield control with Bigfoot Lane and Bellingair Court yielding to Zaninger Ave. Staff conducted an investigation sorry, an intersection sight distance study at the intersection and determined that a two way stop is warranted due to line of sight obstructions on all approaches caused by residential buildings. The site obstructions require driver on Bigfoot Lane or Bel Air Court to come to a complete stop to adequately observe conflicting traffic on Zaninger. Staff is asking TAB to remove to approve a recommendation to establish two way stop control at the intersection of Bigfoot Lane, Bellinger Court, and Zaninger Ave.

And then so this is southbound, and then also have the site distance northbound.

Thank you very much, miss Smith. I will entertain a motion to have a discussion on this item. Do we have a motion and a second to approve the recommendation to establish two way stop control at the intersection of Bigfoot Lane, Delaware Court, and Zinger Avenue? So moved. A motion from mister Olger. Second. And second from mister Grudzinski. I apologize. Okay. At this time, do we have so motion approved. Do we have anyone from the public signed up to speak on this item?

We have one speaker, Kevin Flynn.

Welcome.

Thank you. Good evening, Transportation Advisory Board. I'm Kevin Flynn. I live at 987 Creekside Circle, twenty years at that residence, fifty year plus in Naperville. About three months ago, my son was involved in a serious accident at this intersection, which is why I'm here to petition it. I requested stop signs. Thank you for your approval. I have a video just to one of the neighbors actually has a camera pointed toward the intersection because there's been so many accidents there. So he actually gave me the video after the accident. So I have that to show if that's I'm a computer person.

So is it I'm assuming is it here? Yep. And here we go. It's very quick. We're actually going to get my car serviced. So I'm in the first car right there going by, and that's my son. He's got get there. I can't I don't if you can see it or not on your screen. I can play it again here. It was it happens pretty quick in, like, the ten seconds here, but the person southbound on Bigfoot did not yield at all.

He just when they hit my son. So he's okay. I brought pictures of damage of my car too in my flash drive. So we had toggle to that. Alright.

So bearing very narrowly avoided a very serious accident with the driver's side door just being missed there. I was pastor and sergeant Muska on how to get this approved. So let's see if I can is it way to usually, there's arrows over here. No. I'll show you a couple more pictures, and then they'll so that's the damage to my my beautiful Lincoln that's totaled $25,000 in damage.

And I thought it was interesting with the perspective that other that person's car was also severely damaged. I have perspective on the yield sign. It's not, like, significant, so thank you for your approval. Is my car being towed away? More damage. Sorry. I've got the wrong one here. Me get the right one. So the yield sign is it's it's there, but it's not, like, super apparent. So a much more robust stop sign is much appreciated. This is the southbound view from Bigfoot right where the other person hit my side. Thank you.

Thank you. And for the record, mister Flynn also has a written statement of support for this as well. Does the board have any questions or comments for staff on this matter? Okay. I I have one. Due diligence was done to confirm that the from an engineering standard standpoint that this it's appropriate for a stop sign. Yeah.

Yeah. So we evaluate several things when looking at stop control, one of them being intersection, sight distance. So this location wouldn't meet warrants based on volumes or crash history, which are some of the other criteria looked at, but it does meet warrants based on the intersection site distance. So a southbound driver on Bigfoot would not be able to adequately see an oncoming vehicle to be able to slow in time to avoid a collision.

Mr Hurley? Aye. Mr. Krasvinsky? Aye. Ms. Niher?

Aye.

Mr. Strom? Aye. Mr. Olger? Aye. Ms. Rose?

Aye.

Mister Webb? Aye.

Motion passes, and we approve a recommendation to establish two way stop control at the intersection of Bigfoot Lane, Beller Court, and Zeninger Avenue. Next, have 26Dash0590 approve a recommendation to update the speed limits traffic schedule within title 11 of the municipal code. Mister Pruce, it's your floor.

Thank you, chairman. Naperville categorizes our speed limits in the traffic schedule section of the municipal code. Over the past year, the transportation team has begun reviewing the traffic schedules to ensure accuracy in the code and the field. No speed limits were modified when updating no speed limits in the field were modified when updating this code, and the modifications that are being made are in the effort of data quality. Staff is asking TAD to approve a recommendation to update the speed limits traffic schedule within title 11 of the municipal code.

Do we have any questions from the board?

I have just one question. When I went through these, it makes sense, but there are some streets that you completely took it out. I'll just give you an example. Some of them I can see, like Aurora Avenue, you took took out River Road to West Street because you included the whole the entire thing under the same speed limit. But there are some streets that there are taken. And I'm just curious any taken out, just the reason, that's all.

That's a great question. So in the effort, there's about 1,500 entries in our speed limit code and in an effort to not include all the code items that we are keeping in the code. I did not include those in this item. It's just the ones that we are modifying or taking out. So even though there are, you'll notice like Washington Street, there's a few that are taken out. There's still Washington Street in our traffic schedule code. We're just taking out duplicates. So throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s as speed limit got updated, unfortunately,

all

right, I apologize. Unfortunately, staff in the past were not removing those code sections when adding in new ones. And then along with that, there are a few sections that are being removed that are either state highways or county highways, and there's no need for those to be in our municipal code.

Thank you. I apologize. I missed. We need to have a a motion to have this discussion. So do we have a motion and a second to approve, a discussion on this item?

So moved.

Moved by mister Webb.

Second.

Second by miss Rose. Okay. Any additional questions from the board regarding this? Okay. Hearing no more discussion, staff, can we please call the roll? All those in favor signify by saying aye. And those opposed, nay.

Mister Hurley?

I apologize. Is there public comments?

There are no public speakers.

Okay. Thank you.

Mister Hurley? Aye. Mister Kraswinski? Aye. Miss Nier?

Aye.

Mister Strom? Aye. Mister Olger? Aye. Miss Rose?

Aye.

Mister Webb? Aye.

Motion passes, and we approve a recommendation to update the speed limits, traffic schedule within title 11 of the municipal code. Moving on to old business. Does anyone have any, items regarding old business?

I have an update on the bicycle and pedestrian plan.

Please proceed.

The project team hosted an open house for the bicycle and pedestrian plan update on April 23 here at the municipal center. The purpose of the event was to share the project vision, goals, draft recommendations, as well as to gauge preferences for different trade offs. There were display tools presented, display boards presented at the event, which prompted conversation between attendees and the project team. And attendees also received a survey to provide feedback. All these materials can be viewed on the website for those unable to attend.

It is estimated that about 90 people attended the event and 69 attendees submitted the survey. The reception to draft recommendations was mostly positive with 80% of survey responses answering yes that recommendations met their expectations for improving walking and biking in Naperville. The project team will use feedback gathered at the event to finalize project recommendations and finish drafting the plan documents, which will be presented at the August tab for public forum.

Thank you, miss Smith. Any additional old business? Hearing none, we will close old business. Next up is new business. Before we ask if there's any additional new business, I want to provide time to any exiting board members for an opportunity to to speak if they'd like. So mister Webb?

Thank you, mister Hurley. I remember our first, what, three or four meetings were on Zoom because we started on the board and smack dab in the middle of COVID. So the we amazingly got a lot of stuff done in those Zoom meetings, including the the sidewalk program. We walked through, like, 40 of those at an online meeting, which is pretty amazing. So it was great once we actually got here in person.

I've greatly enjoyed my six years on the board. It's just it's been great just to see how things go through the process with the city, the work we do. The staff is absolutely amazing. Whenever we ask them a question at the very next meeting, you mean, half the time, I don't remember what we talked about. The staff then brings it up to the next meeting. It's like, oh, yeah. We did ask them about that, and they have the answer. And so just very greatly enjoyed my time on the board. I'd to, you know, thank both mayor Trico and mayor Worley for the appointments. And who knows?

Then maybe we'll see where this goes as far as further service to the the city. But I would just like to thank my fellow board members and the city staff for making this a very enjoyable experience.

Thank you, mister Webb. Student member Sokolowski, would you like to make any statements?

This was a really good opportunity for me, and I'm really happy I was able to experience it. I've learned a lot about, like, civil engineering as a whole and something I'm on want to pursue.

And that's great that you participated. Thank you so much for doing so. And again, this may be my last meeting as well. I echo Jim's comments. It's really been a privilege, and I think I probably got more out of it than than anyone else, but really being able to participate in the whole process of what it means to be a citizen in the civic duty to do so. So I I love the fact that this board these boards exist, and I cherish the opportunity I've had to serve on Thank you, everyone. Okay. Any additional new business at this time?

Alright. We do have one item. So in the 2025, city council asked staff to review the overnight parking ordinance and provide potential alternatives to the current code. Ted's staff along with DPW PD and fire reviewed the overnight parking ordinance along with the pros and cons of different alternatives. The the recommendations from this review process were on the April 21 City Council agenda.

At that meeting and after discussion, city council requested that staff bring the agenda item to a future tab date for discussion through this board. Staff is now in the process of collecting additional residential feedback via community via a community survey that will be made public or that will be made available to the public in the summer. After that data collection, staff will bring an overnight parking agenda item to the tab in the fall.

Thank you very much, mister Persa. Miss Nair, did you have

It was about overnight parking.

Okay. Thank you. Any additional new business? K. Hearing none, we will close new business. I will now entertain a motion and a second for adjournment. Do we have a motion? So moved. So moved by miss Waldger.

Second.

Second by miss Nair. K. Staff, can we please call the roll? All those in favor signify by saying aye, and those, nay.

Mister Hurley? Aye. Mister Krasinski? Aye. Miss Nair? Aye. Mister Schrum? Mister Olker? Aye. Miss Rose?

Aye.

Mister Webb? Aye. And this concludes the 05/07/2026 Transportation Advisory Board meeting.