[0:00] This conduct the roll call. Mr. Schrom,

[0:05] Mr.

[0:06] Mr. Older, Mr. Hurley, here, Mr. Nyer, Mr. Web, Mr. Kuzwinsky, here, Mr. Haley, here, Mr. Mr. Yang, Mr. Rose, Councilman McBrue.

[0:26] All right, we have a quorum, the meeting is officially called to order. The first order of business tonight is the public form.

[0:32] during the public forum members of the public have the opportunity to address the

[0:36] transportation advisory board on issues which are not part of tonight's agenda.

[0:42] Please keep your comments limited to three minutes.

[0:45] Staff, do we have anyone signed up to speak as part of the public forum?

[0:49] There are no speakers signed up.

[0:52] All right.

[0:53] With no speakers, is anyone...

[0:57] No comments to the public forum is now closed.

[0:59] So we do have the written comments.

[1:03] Those are already recorded.

[1:07] Yes, so there was one written comment sent in online that was printed out and sent to the tab members.

[1:17] Our next order of business are the reports and recommendations.

[1:23] So first up is agenda item 261041 to approve the minutes of the August 6,

[1:29] twenty twenty six transportation advisory board meeting. I will entertain a motion to have a discussion on the

[1:34] side. Do we have a motion and a second to approve the minutes of the August 6th,

[1:38] twenty twenty six August, uh, transportation advisory board meeting.

[1:44] So more.

[1:45] I'm a sterleder.

[1:46] Second.

[1:47] Excuse me.

[1:48] Excuse me.

[1:51] Do we have any revisions or comments regarding the minutes?

[1:59] All right. Staff, can we please call the roll? All those in favor signify by saying aye.

[2:03] Those opposed.

[2:05] Mr. Schrom, Mr. Olga, Mr. Hurley, Mr. Nire, Mr.

[2:12] Mr. Kurzwinski, Mr. Hantley, Mr. Yang.

[2:19] Motion passes. We approve the minutes of the August 6, 2026 transportation advisory board meeting

[2:26] a submit in. Next, we have 261018 to receive the presentation and provide input and propose

[2:36] update of the city's bicycle and pedestrian plan. Mr. Prusa, you have the floor.

[2:42] The city enabled out of the previous bicycle and pedestrian plan in 1997 and completed

[2:47] an interim update in 2006 to prioritize bicycle route implementation. These plans guided the development

[2:53] of Naples sidewalk in Phil program and the construction of the existing bicycle network.

[2:58] In recent years, the city identified mobility as a priority area with the goal of ensuring

[3:02] residents can move about the community with ease in a variety of transportation modes.

[3:10] Excuse me.

[3:11] The updated bicycle pedestrian plan evaluates existing conditions and public input to identify

[3:15] infrastructure improvements and programs that Naples can implement over the next

[3:19] 20 years to expand active transportation opportunities in enhanced user comfort.

[3:24] The recommendations included in this plan will be to incorporate into the City's capital improvement program as new projects to be evaluated in further detail.

[3:34] In 2025, the City hired abstinent sons international to develop and to develop and update to the bicycle and pedestrian plan.

[3:42] Over the past year, I've seen work with staff to evaluate the existing conditions of Naples Active Transportation Network and perform a level of stress analysis of roadways and intersections.

[3:51] Along with gathering public input, the results of the existing conditions analysis and public

[3:57] comments were utilized to develop project recommendations.

[4:01] A preliminary draft of recommendations was presented to the public at an open house in April

[4:05] 2020-26.

[4:08] Feedback from the event was incorporated to further refine project recommendations and proposed

[4:12] routes.

[4:14] At tonight's tab, FC Mobile Provider presentation is in findings from community engagement events

[4:19] and existing conditions evaluation, and we'll give an overview of the project recommendations.

[4:32] Thank you, Mr. Prusa. Council members. The elements of the presentation, we're going to, both of us are going to present on this.

[4:42] We're really excited to talk about what we've been doing over the last 12 months.

[4:48] You have a full draft of the bicycle plan in your agenda packet.

[4:55] So hopefully you've had an opportunity to look through it, but I won't, we will talk.

[5:00] I'll give you a little bit of a summary of what's in the plan.

[5:04] Let's go to the next slide.

[5:08] So first, I want to talk about the goals and the vision of this plan.

[5:13] And initially the goals and the vision were established through community surveys that we did,

[5:20] through stakeholder input, and through working with the Ted Group, the Naperville Ted Group staff.

[5:27] And also, there were comments that we reviewed from the roadway improvement plan that the City

[5:34] of Naperville did that talked a lot about vice-compression, so from all of that information

[5:40] and from coordinating with the Ted Group is how we develop these goals in this vision.

[5:46] Some of the main points of the vision is to create a network, that's what we've heard.

[5:51] people want to feel safe and comfortable when walking and biking around

[5:56] Naperville. And people wanted connections to destinations. Those were the main

[6:02] themes that we've heard. In general people in Naperville want to walk in

[6:07] bike in a lot of situations they just don't feel safe doing so. So that was one

[6:12] goal of this plan.

[6:17] Throughout the planning process the 12 month planning

[6:20] process. We started with online public engagement and in person events, which

[6:28] stuff will talk more about. And we studied existing conditions. What does

[6:32] need to look like today? And then we threw out the winter. Okay.

[6:39] Throughout winter of 2025, there was more public engagement. At that point, we

[6:44] did a needs analysis. So where are the gaps? Where are the barriers? We put

[6:49] together design guidance for the city to use when implementing some of these recommendations.

[6:57] And then by the spring of 26, we had an open house and through that open house, we took

[7:02] a lot of that input and kind of finalized our draft recommendations, which we then coordinated

[7:09] and collaborated with the city of Naperville to finalize those recommendations and put together

[7:14] a draft plan.

[7:15] And that's what you're looking at today.

[7:19] The process going forward is tab meeting today,

[7:24] and then final plan preparation,

[7:25] hopefully approval by the city council.

[7:31] So I'm going to let Steph talk more about

[7:33] the specifics around community engagement.

[7:36] Yeah, as with any good planning process,

[7:39] community engagement is really critical.

[7:40] Component to make sure that the recommendations

[7:42] that we're making are meeting the needs

[7:44] and the desires of renewable residents.

[7:46] So as Greg said, we had some in-person pop-up events throughout the fall and early winter.

[7:53] These are at various community events or locations where people were going to be gathering

[8:00] going with their day naturally, and we could kind of pull them aside to ask some questions about the preferences on infrastructure types

[8:07] and also what destinations are really important to them.

[8:09] And so based on that feedback and some of our evaluations of the existing conditions and the needs analysis,

[8:16] you know, drafted the recommendations and brought those to the open house in April that my phone mentioned.

[8:23] And that was really our gut check to say, did is this meeting the expectations of April residents,

[8:29] doesn't, you know, achieve the goals that they're looking for.

[8:32] It doesn't kind of fit the vision that they have for a bicycle network and pedestrian improvements.

[8:37] And overwhelmingly the response from that was yes, I think we had over 90 participants attend that open house and over 90% of them said that it was, you know, a really good recommendations that kind of met their expectations and their needs.

[8:53] So that was great to hear.

[8:55] In addition to those in person events we also kind of throughout the beginning of the process and sort of middle of the process had virtual online option and an interactive map for people to provide comments on locations

[9:06] that they want to see improvements or destinations that we're important to them, for

[9:10] adding people an opportunity to weigh in at a time that was convenient for them.

[9:15] And we got over 500 comments on that interactive map, which has a lot to go through, but very

[9:20] fun to read.

[9:21] We also gave people the opportunity to like comments that they agreed with.

[9:25] We had over 850 likes on the map too, so lots of engagement on that, that was great to

[9:30] see.

[9:30] Overall, we were really happy with the quality and quantity of comments that we got throughout

[9:35] process both in person and online and what we are from that?

[9:43] Yeah, so I'm going to talk a little bit about existing conditions and what we found when

[9:47] we were studying the existing conditions.

[9:50] Some of the key factors analyze community destinations and public amenities.

[9:58] What we were looking at.

[10:00] When we were looking at the existing conditions, was your bike, biking, walking, and transit amenities, and facilities that exist today.

[10:08] We did also review the 1997 plan, the Mr. Pursa made reference to, and what those recommendations were, and if any of those had been implemented, or if anything, changed based on those recommendations.

[10:21] We looked at your current facilities, we looked at roadway characteristics, like with and number of lanes and speed limit and the jurisdiction of the roadway.

[10:30] We also did a level of traffic stress analysis, which the methodology that we used is in the ash-doh-oh bicycle guide, which is a guide that is used by transportation professionals.

[10:45] So, it isn't something we just created, it's a methodology that is common in the industry.

[10:52] We looked at crashes and created a heat map of where the most amount of crashes are occurring.

[10:59] And then that led us to kind of determine where some of the challenges are in the city of Naperville.

[11:08] And through that analysis, we were able to come up with strengths and challenges.

[11:13] First, you have a lot of sidewalk, which is great.

[11:15] A lot of your roads have sidewalk on them, and you have a lot of intersections, but a lot of them are low stress.

[11:26] So that is great as well.

[11:29] You have a lot of low stress routes.

[11:30] The residential streets that are quiet and curvy and vending and have some parked cars on them, which kind of requires people to slow down and pay attention and be careful.

[11:41] Those are nice low-stress routes to walk and bike-on.

[11:48] A lot of most of the roads under the city jurisdiction are low-speed, local, and residential streets.

[11:53] You have control over those types of roads.

[11:56] And there's a lot of destinations in Naperville.

[11:58] A lot of places that people want to go to.

[12:01] All great things.

[12:03] We did find barriers which are pretty common in a lot of places that we go to.

[12:07] rivers, rivers, high stress, streets, wide streets,

[12:12] fast streets, things like that.

[12:14] Create barriers, they're difficult to cross,

[12:16] or there's limited crossings.

[12:20] And in April, it's difficult to access downtown

[12:23] as a bicyclist and as a pedestrian,

[12:26] because of all the busy streets.

[12:29] And the development pattern requires people

[12:32] to travel on or across busy roads, right?

[12:34] I mean, it's the nature of the call, the sack,

[12:36] is that now there's limited roads that connect to places,

[12:41] so you're funneling all of the traffic

[12:43] to a limited number of roads through Naperville.

[12:46] It's common.

[12:52] So, and then, so we kind of put together our key findings

[12:55] and what we found is we wanted to expand north-south connectivity.

[13:00] There are some barriers that are cutting off north and south.

[13:05] We wanted to reduce level of traffic stress throughout the network,

[13:08] So anything we're going to recommend should be a level level of traffic stress enhancing intersections.

[13:15] Again, those crossings trying to make them comfortable for people walking and biking.

[13:19] And if there is a busy route that is there an alternative or a parallel route that we can use as a bicycle route.

[13:26] So those were some of our key findings.

[13:31] And then Steph's going to talk about recommendations.

[13:34] Yeah, so all of that work culminates in over a hundred different infrastructure recommendations.

[13:40] A lot of them are bike facilities, like Greg said, you have a very pretty complete sidewalk network.

[13:47] So there's not a lot of sidewalk recommendations to make this a few gaps that we're recommending it filled or evaluated to be filled.

[13:54] And then as a lot of those bike projects get implemented, it's all so recommended to look at the crossings, especially those busy streets.

[14:02] because that's where you get the benefit for people walking and biking to fill gaps and

[14:08] connect, make more new connections. So overall, even when you're something looks like a

[14:14] bike project, it is also enhancing the pedestrian network by nature of some of the crossing

[14:19] improvements that happen naturally along with it. We have the recommendations broken into four

[14:26] quadrants just to make it easier to see and I'm not going to go through every single recommendation.

[14:29] And in these books we can kind of deep dive in them during the Q&A if needed.

[14:35] So I'm going to give an overview of each of these quadrants of what the goal we're trying

[14:39] to achieve for each of them was.

[14:41] And we have everything symbolized by the different bicycle facility type, so a bike boulevard

[14:48] in which are those low traffic volume, mostly residential streets, where you have, we recommend

[14:54] when you put pretty frequent pavement markings, signage, usually crossing it.

[15:00] We're going to prevent, especially at those busy intersections, just to traffic calming can be really common on those streets as well.

[15:07] Bike lane, I'm assuming it runs familiar. It's the, you know, striped designated space for cyclists on the roadway.

[15:12] Buffered bike lane makes that stripe wider, so there's more separation from vehicles.

[15:16] And the protected bike lane adds a physical barrier in that stripe space that physically separates the vehicle, the car vehicles from cyclists.

[15:27] And then of course, the Shirties Path, which Naperville has a really great network up already, a lot of the trails along the river.

[15:34] And through your towards-preserved space, our great representations of multi-use paths, wide enough for cyclists and pedestrians to use.

[15:44] So we're making some recommendations for more of those, filling in some gaps, adding some new connections.

[15:49] There are a couple of locations where we have targeted improvements that key intersections

[15:55] that were brought up as really big barriers right now through the public comment and through

[16:00] our evaluation process.

[16:02] So right now we're looking at the Northwest quadrant of Naperville, our primary goal here was

[16:08] to facilitate new connections across the river and improve north-south bicycle and pedestrian

[16:13] routes.

[16:15] Northeast, Aprilville is where a good portion of your destinations are.

[16:19] Downtown is here, the metro station, some really great parks here.

[16:23] We also heard during public engagement that can actually better connections up to

[16:28] Denona Forest Preserve is really important for people.

[16:31] So, overall in this quadrant, trying to facilitate movement to downtown from any direction

[16:35] and also connecting to some of those great recreational amenities.

[16:41] In the Southwest quadrant, again, similar trying to improve connections to the parks and trails

[16:47] that already exist.

[16:48] And then we did hear a couple of times during public engagement that people living in this

[16:52] part of town felt a little bit isolated from the rest of Naperville, so we tried to kind of boost connections

[16:57] for people to get out of this neighborhood kind of to the rest of town on the bike network.

[17:04] Lastly, the southeast quadrant.

[17:06] It's, again, similar story connecting to those great trails and parks and then just facilitating

[17:11] better north-sauce east-west movement throughout this area and to the rest of town.

[17:18] In addition to those infrastructure recommendations, we also have some policy and program recommendations,

[17:22] which we have kind of said whether or not it requires just some staff time or if it would be staff time plus materials to implement,

[17:28] whether or not it's like a one-time action or an ongoing program that would have reoccurring costs associated.

[17:34] And, most of these recommendations are not within neighbor village power or really doesn't

[17:41] make sense for them to implement alone, so a lot of them will be dependent on partnerships

[17:45] with the school district, the park's district, police department, local businesses, certainly

[17:49] trying to facilitate kind of everyone in the whole suite of jurisdictions and different agencies

[17:57] and community partners coming together to influence some things that will support walking

[18:02] by key more broadly on like a cultural level and to implement each other.

[18:11] Yeah, thank you, Steph. So the next step is to implement some of these recommendations,

[18:17] right? That's the purpose of this plan. We want to see some of these things get installed.

[18:22] We broke the recommendations down into short-term, medium, term, long-term.

[18:29] So you can start focusing on some of those short-term things right away.

[18:32] This is, these recommendations do go through 2050, this is kind of a long-term plan, we don't expect all of this to get implemented right away, it's not practical, it's not possible.

[18:45] And so the partnerships are going to be really important throughout this process because there are so many different agencies and organizations involved in order to implement some of these things.

[18:54] through some of our listed here, but also IDOT is an organization you're going to want to collaborate with and do page county and will county.

[19:03] You can see the price tag at the bottom, 54 million dollars of total recommendations.

[19:09] Now this doesn't, this isn't expected to be all neighbor bill money or all local money.

[19:15] And it's also not expected to be spent all at one time, right?

[19:19] We expect, and we, we talk about this in the plans, some, we give some ideas on how to get some funding to help with these, with these recommendations, federal grants, state grants, corporate grants, private grants, there's also an opportunity to create an annual fund dedicated to bicycle and pedestrian implementation,

[19:45] and the plan provides a more detailed list around some of those grant programs.

[19:50] So that's, let's, let's it, uh, can open up to questions.

[19:56] Thank you very much. Those are great presentations.

[19:58] Yeah.

[20:00] I will entertain a motion to have a discussion on this item. Do we have a motion and a second?

[20:07] I'll make a motion. Mr. Strom?

[20:10] Second.

[20:11] Mr. Hurley?

[20:15] Do we have anyone from the public signed up to speak on this item?

[20:20] We do. The first speaker is consummate hallsar.

[20:38] All right. Good evening, and thank you everybody. Thank you all for volunteering, like the Board's

[20:43] and Commission doesn't provide so much value to our council.

[20:45] It's really amazing and thank you for the wonderful presentation that you gave us and excited that our community is investing in bikes, which when you look at pure communities that we always compare ourselves to, whether it's overland park Kansas or Carmel Indian.

[21:02] This is one area where a lot of them have honestly gotten a decade or two ahead of us.

[21:06] And if we want to retain that status as best community in America, I think a lot of it is.

[21:11] going to be in the plan that you all formulate. So I look forward to seeing it. Very quick

[21:16] ask, I would hope that a note, a footnote, something like that, could be added to the report

[21:24] that eventually goes to City Council. And specifically what I would like it to look at is what

[21:31] I call kind of the missing mile. You know, we have this amazing bike connection to the Illinois

[21:40] the top left corner of the screen, just off the screen, and then you also have this amazing

[21:44] connection to the River Trail, which goes south, the South Naperville, but I've heard from

[21:49] a number of people and people in commentary have said that it's just not that safe getting

[21:54] between those two trails, so it does as it fragments the bike network of the city. A couple of weeks

[22:00] ago, a number of leaders in downtown Naperville, including the mayor, the head of DNA, the head

[22:08] partnership, the Downtown Advisory Committee. We took a walk and basically we went on the current

[22:15] bike path through downtown. And the part district was there too, I should say. And one of the

[22:21] main things we identified is there is city land that I'm sorry, not city land government land that

[22:29] could be available to potentially help cut out a good part or maybe even the most dangerous parts

[22:35] that missing mile that, you know, it's just really hard to navigate a bike through the

[22:39] area, just to highlight a couple. The mayor actually flag this, but right now, you know,

[22:44] perhaps the most harrowing part of the entire bike network is right there at Orbera and

[22:49] Eagle, just outside of City Hall, take a look at it if you haven't, you know, we have bikes

[22:53] that are expected across lanes of traffic in order to get through. One idea the mayor had

[22:59] was pushing traffic on Webster Street and on the sidewalk that runs right on the side of the

[23:02] building, doesn't intersect with a river walk, that's something I hope we can get done

[23:06] maybe even before your report gets through.

[23:09] Some of these other paths, you know, there's a very long segment of parking lot.

[23:14] It's an extended parking lot that's the overflow lot of Centennial Beach.

[23:18] That's existing concrete that's already there.

[23:21] It's way wider than it has to be for the existing purpose there.

[23:25] You know, and we won on that walk, like I said, with the head of the park district

[23:28] And he was certainly very open to the idea of considering, you know, including bikes through there.

[23:35] So, I am not a civil engineer. Can I solve this all in a day or a week?

[23:40] Can we all solve this in a couple of months? Probably not.

[23:42] But my one ass would be that it highlighted on the report that a lot of city leaders,

[23:46] a lot of city leaders were interested in this, including from the business community.

[23:50] And thank you. I really appreciate it.

[23:53] Thank you.

[23:56] Do we have anyone else signed up to speak?

[23:58] The next speaker is Rick Hitchcock.

[24:13] Do I need to do that again?

[24:17] Oh, good.

[24:19] Also, I want some property in downtown Naperville, retired urban designer.

[24:23] And I've been involved with the Riverwalk since its inception as a consultant, as a commissioner, and as the chair.

[24:31] And now, as a advocate, or some might say in Ducense, I don't know.

[24:37] It's the first of all, congratulations, Deppstein.

[24:41] Awesome, thorough, terrific document.

[24:46] A couple things I want to highlight in limited time.

[24:50] There's a quick reference to the Riverwalk 2031 plan.

[24:54] It's important if you don't already know this.

[24:57] That for the first time in the history of the Riverwalk.

[25:00] There's two new sections of the riverwalk that are planned for the 2031 by Centennial of the City, 50th Anniversary of the Riverwalk, that will include multi-use, in other words, bikes in addition to pets, bicycle access on the riverwalk.

[25:19] One is east of the DuPage River between Hillside and basically the old Cockroven property on the College of Side.

[25:28] And the other is along Washington between Hillside and Martin Avenue where the South Extension is going.

[25:36] There will be some bicycle or dedicated bicycle of multi-use path there in addition to the Riverwalk only path.

[25:45] So the report maybe should be tweaked to reference that because it says that bicycles are not allowed on the river walker, which is 100% accurate today, but in the future won't be entirely accurate.

[25:59] I agree with many, many, many of the recommendations, especially three, four, five, and six, are all totally solid, getting from the south to downtown intersection number two, which Councilman Holtzauer points out is just really nasty.

[26:17] and really encourage some creative thinking around city hall there to avoid or are I

[26:23] Avenue, which presently is just not set up at Eagle Street to accept, excuse me,

[26:31] cyclists, even a kind of modest capability, but certainly not families. I would

[26:37] also encourage the consultants and you all to have an open mind about opportunities as

[26:44] from Holtzauer points out between the river where an intersects Jefferson and downtown.

[26:52] There's lots of really intriguing opportunities, some of which are also on the riverwalk

[26:57] and the river, I'm not representing the Riverwalk Commission, I'm no longer a commissioner.

[27:01] But I can tell you that the Commission is contemplating how some dedicated bicycle facilities

[27:07] might be incorporated into some sections of the riverwalk, not across the board, but in

[27:13] sections that really makes sense and what's on the board around the screen certainly makes

[27:19] some sense.

[27:21] In summary, Purge Consultant discussed those opportunities that have been presented, encourage

[27:26] city, you all, and counsel to prioritize bicycle facilities that are really important.

[27:33] And make sure that the document references in addition to the other partnerships that are

[27:38] presently listed, Downtown Naperville Alliance, Downtown Advisory Committee, and Naperville Riverwalk Commission,

[27:47] because there are all great partners for some of these additional facilities. Thank you.

[27:54] Thank you.

[27:58] The next speaker is Katherine Clarkon.

[28:07] Good evening. I'm Katherine Clarkon, a Naperville resident founder of Accelerate Climate Solutions,

[28:12] and someone who regularly walks and bikes to work. During the summer of 2024,

[28:19] interns at my organization did a deep dive on how to make our city more

[28:23] bike friendly, culminating in a neighborhood bike, bike ability report.

[28:29] Regarding the plan being discussed tonight, I'd like to first comment on the

[28:34] costs. Average to over the period through 2050, this plan costs about $1.9 million

[28:41] And as we heard, some of that is not coming from our tax dollars.

[28:47] Compare this to the $12 million annually, the Naperville spends just to maintain roads for motor vehicles.

[28:55] And that doesn't even count, you know, unexpected contingencies or special projects.

[29:01] The Riverwalk 2031 master plan will cost over $16 million in capital expenses, so these plans are cheap by comparison.

[29:14] Sending, I mean the bike plan is cheap by comparison.

[29:18] Spending on safe and connected bike infrastructure has many obvious benefits.

[29:23] Imagine all the things that people love so much about the Riverwalk, extending city wide.

[29:29] but also with access for bicycles,

[29:33] wouldn't that make our city more livable?

[29:36] My main concern about the proposed plan

[29:38] is that it doesn't go far enough to protect cyclists.

[29:42] The safer it is to cycle, the more people will cycle

[29:45] improving public health, reducing air pollution and congestion

[29:49] and improving quality of life.

[29:52] So protected bike lanes are proven to save lives

[29:56] and promote cycling.

[29:58] Unprotected lanes.

[29:59] Do little...

[30:00] There is not just one way to create protected by glints, there are cheaper alternatives that

[30:07] Naperville could consider. The threshold in the report for the speed of roads were

[30:13] unprotected by glints are put is too high. Speed kills. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation,

[30:22] A person walking hit by a vehicle at 32 miles per hour has a one and four chance of dying and it goes up as speed goes up a 50% chance of dying at 42 miles per hour.

[30:38] So please consider alternatives to unprotected bike lanes on roads with speed limits above 25 miles per hour.

[30:46] for intersections, solutions such as bike boxes, all directions stop, and no right turn on

[30:54] red. We're underutilized in the report and would make biking and walking safer.

[31:00] These could be implemented throughout downtown, for example. Finally, I have a lot of positive

[31:09] to say about this report, too, there's a lot of good things in it, and I'm excited to see

[31:17] Naperville taking steps to create a safer, more connected community for people who are

[31:24] walking and biking.

[31:25] Thank you.

[31:27] Thank you.

[31:31] The next speaker is Bill Simon.

[31:42] Good evening.

[31:43] My name is Bill Simon, and I've been a resident of Naperville for 32 years.

[31:47] I'm very fortunate to live less than 50 yards from Gardner Road, where the DuPage River Trail crosses Gardner and goes down south.

[31:58] My neighbor, Ginny, back in the chamber, she's even more fortunate because she lives literally across the street from the bike path.

[32:08] And if you're going down the bike path, you can wave and say hi and chat with her just a little bit.

[32:12] But I have two messages for tonight.

[32:16] One is to think about the success of that bike path.

[32:19] You know, when we first moved in April, it was just a foot trail.

[32:22] It went down to Pioneer Park.

[32:24] So my sons were little then.

[32:26] We sprung down there.

[32:28] But now it's a hugely successful bike and pedestrian pathway.

[32:33] And for runners too.

[32:34] It's just amazing.

[32:35] So I don't have any quantitative numbers.

[32:37] But I can tell you that it is a huge success.

[32:39] So, if you can take that kind of usage and that kind of accessibility and spread it across the city and give easier access for all the city's residents, it will be a huge success.

[32:54] My second message is about seasonality, because some people will say, oh, you know, it's too cold up here to be biking all year long, you know, you really don't need to be doing it all year long.

[33:06] And we're not Canadians and Calgary who do amazing, they commute into the city on mass,

[33:14] on bikes.

[33:14] We can have facilities that are used for most of the year.

[33:18] We have plenty of facilities in different government entities that are seasonal, park district

[33:24] fields, courts, pools, they're outdoors, we have a river walk, you know, it has a lot of

[33:30] usage in the summer time, probably less so on the winter time, but there's nothing wrong

[33:36] It's great to provide a facility, you know, means for people to get around for most of the year.

[33:42] So, that's it.

[33:44] Thank you.

[33:47] The next speaker is Justin White.

[34:01] I think it was Justin White, and I've lived in April since 2006.

[34:08] Approximately 10 years ago, a family member was hit by a car sitting on a bicycle at the corner at the light of 75th and Modf.

[34:17] Thankfully, our story did not end in a fatality or a hospital visit.

[34:23] Other families were not as fortunate.

[34:27] Isabel Dima's humanist, Royal Gorge, and Ogden.

[34:32] Michael Ginsberg, former Naperville police cadet, Richard Neiman, senior citizen at

[34:40] hospital, 2023, that Maria commuting from the Route 59 Meditation, a bi-commuter crossing

[34:50] Route 59,

[34:53] unreported crashes, people who stopped walking or riding because they felt

[35:02] Those are the reasons why we're here.

[35:06] Feeling of safety and confidence, those are things that were mentioned in the report by abstine.

[35:13] I think those are very, very important to consider.

[35:18] Speed. You have, there's a lot of good ideas in the report.

[35:21] Ted is aware of those ideas. Those ideas can be very successful if you recognize how much speed can impact the safety of a person that's walking or biking.

[35:33] that stat that's in his Clark and Gave is true. It's research. It's proven.

[35:41] Access.

[35:43] This map, the map shown by Epstein, the ones prepared by Ted, and tab.

[35:51] There are certain parts of this community that do not have access. They cannot ride safely with confidence.

[35:58] So, the goal is more than a plan.

[36:03] The goal is fewer names added to the list.

[36:12] Thank you.

[36:16] The final speaker is Ernest Oxen K.

[36:22] Showed.

[36:33] My name is Ernest Oxen.

[36:35] I've been in April of a resident for over 20 years.

[36:40] I'm an avid cyclist.

[36:42] Unfortunately, I have a foot injury right now.

[36:44] But I just want to say, to me, the biggest concern,

[36:50] the whole downtown access is interesting.

[36:52] But I don't think that's an issue.

[36:55] I personally think that a big issue

[36:59] is speed differential between cyclists and cars.

[37:03] And I think we have a couple of issues in the city going north

[37:07] south on the east side of town.

[37:09] Naperville Road, that's been a chronic problem.

[37:12] There's no way to get north south in that area. We need to route there.

[37:16] Somehow, you know, either a path or some other cycling route through there with the access to cross the railroad tracks, the

[37:26] Prolincia and the railroad tracks. And then certainly crossing route 59 going east and west over there.

[37:32] That's always an issue. I just want to say in the downtown area, I have a big concern about these traffic

[37:38] coming measures that have been implemented that interject the cars towards cyclists that are

[37:44] riding on the right-hand side of the road or where the cyclists are interjected into the

[37:49] cars because of the curves coming back out into the traffic lane without a lane for the cyclists.

[37:55] I think this is absolutely foolish. These traffic calming measures where they narrow the road creates

[38:00] conflict between a vehicle and a cyclist. We need to change that that's completely, you know,

[38:08] creates conflict and that it's never good cyclists have issues with vehicles always there's

[38:14] small percentage of drivers that seem to

[38:18] enjoy

[38:19] creating danger for the cyclists and

[38:22] this creates conflict

[38:24] I'm trying to avoid conflict conflict and I think we need to look at these traffic calming measures

[38:30] in a way that doesn't

[38:33] interject the bikes and the cars into each other and either create a separate lane to

[38:40] the cyclists to get through the traffic calming method method method method or don't do it.

[38:47] I'll just say that there's right now in Jefferson Avenue just east of the river we've

[38:53] created this widening of the intersection that interjects the cars back into the cyclists

[39:00] staffs that are writing Eastern North, a Eastern West on Jefferson Avenue. This is absolutely

[39:07] absurd and I hope you guys take efforts to change that because we need to keep the cars

[39:15] away from the bikes. Thank you. Thank you.

[39:22] There are no more speakers.

[39:26] Great. Does the board have any questions or comments for staff for the public forum?

[39:32] have a question about the safety aspect of the report. Sounds like there's quite a few concerns

[39:41] from our residents about the safety aspect of the report. I also have a concern to add to that.

[39:49] I am very familiar with Quadron 3 on the map and there's a couple of sections along

[39:55] and it's made field neighborville road, where just like that.

[40:00] The last gentleman was speaking about, there's a lot of variables with speed. There's a differential and speed between cars, doing 40, 50 miles an hour. People walking, people on regular bikes, people on e-bikes, and that differential and speed can become really hazardous.

[40:18] So, when you're exiting Conan Doyle, for instance, to pull out on to Plainfield Naperville

[40:26] Road, there's a bike path that runs parallel to Naperville Plainfield Road.

[40:33] And the peripheral vision when you pull up to that intersection is very limited, so you

[40:38] have a very small window of opportunity to not hit somebody.

[40:42] So those kinds of oversight kind of concern me when I think about safety, when I think about the addition of new speeds of these modes of transportation, I think that should be looked at a little more closely with the amount of money being spent on this plan.

[41:00] So that's just my opinion and part of it I agree with a lot of people here and it seems like there are some safety things that could be looked at a little closer in my opinion.

[41:13] Thank you.

[41:16] Mr. Hurley?

[41:20] Question for the consultants in first of all.

[41:23] Fantastic plan.

[41:24] blown away out the quality of it in the conference of this, but I'm curious from a guiding philosophy

[41:31] when building this was intended to be aspirational, the costs were funded, and that

[41:37] or was intended to be realistic, sociable, or somewhere in between.

[41:45] I think it was somewhere in between, I mean there's always there's elements that are fairly easy

[41:50] to implement, and then there's elements that are tricky because you have to coordinate with other

[41:54] restrictions or you have to somehow raise money to do the project so there are elements

[42:02] that are aspirational and that was the collaboration with the Ted Group as we were going

[42:09] throughout this plan it's like what are you willing to you know recommend so there was

[42:15] back and forth. I don't know. Mr. Pursa has anything to add.

[42:20] Yeah, I go up scenes comments on that. And to that point, yeah, I'm just going to

[42:27] elaborate a little bit more that along with jurisdictionally, you know, there's always going to be concerns when you're working with other jurisdictions.

[42:35] I'm kind of the need to be met for both parties and then also construct constructability is a big piece of this as well.

[42:42] There's a lot of right of way that is challenging throughout the city, so that's all part of the plan.

[42:50] And a lot of that's highlighted in the priority map that I've seen provided on, you know, that priority maps kind of,

[42:58] where do we have a lot of residents?

[43:00] Concerns and then also, what are those easy wins that we could get because of ease?

[43:07] Thank you.

[43:08] And just as a follow-up question, was there any guidance given on what the cap or max over

[43:13] this period of time should be or not to exceed, keeping in mind things like constructability.

[43:20] And obviously, we can't build space shuttles for everyone.

[43:25] Things like that.

[43:25] You're talking about a cap on the cost?

[43:28] Right.

[43:28] I mean, you could have come up with a plan that would be a billion dollar, that wouldn't

[43:31] be realistic.

[43:32] But what's their guidance given to you as to not to exceed for a period of time?

[43:35] I was just added to it from what the recommendations were and that's what the cost came up.

[43:39] Right. Yeah, there were no dollar values at the beginning that were given to us.

[43:43] The recommendations came first.

[43:45] The cost estimate came next.

[43:50] Just to follow up on the cost question.

[43:52] What's the current spending for vice-element pedestrian infrastructure?

[43:56] Is the overall 54 million is that incremental?

[44:02] Yeah, that would be something that would be.

[44:05] It's a good question, it's really hard to say,

[44:08] because a lot of this stuff will be intricate,

[44:11] instigated, integrated into our current CIP

[44:16] and other road improvement projects.

[44:19] So side path could be put into a road

[44:22] resurfacing project.

[44:23] And then we have a consistent pavement marking contract

[44:27] that does a lot of our bike and pet improvements.

[44:30] And that includes markings and the small amount of delineation

[44:35] we do have. So it's all incremental year by year, but it's tough to put an exact dollar

[44:42] amount per year. I will say the 2027 budget is not approved yet, but we do have a request

[44:53] in there to add money for feasibility study purposes from some of the plan element.

[45:00] That we are seeing here today.

[45:05] Thank you. Does anyone else have questions?

[45:08] I do have another one. How much of that budget is implemented towards safety devices like

[45:13] warning of somebody coming down a path or someone crossing an intersection at a

[45:18] bike path? Kind of like what we have near Springbrook path, over by

[45:22] with states where you can cross 83rd street safely by hitting the light.

[45:28] Is there any kind of indicators into the budget or any kind of warnings for people crossing paths?

[45:34] Yeah. So we have two funds that we pull from that are more related. We have nothing dedicated to

[45:42] bike and pad specific, but we have two funds that are for our traffic signal or traffic signal equipment

[45:50] That's the fun. Those are the funds that we pull from whenever we're adding any RRBs, or weekends, or recently a long Jefferson.

[46:00] We've added a lot of LED lights at our crossings and that's the fun that that gets pulled from.

[46:06] Is there one that senses somebody coming down on path so that if, like say you couldn't see, but you could see the light start flashing because it picks up most like a certain movement down the path.

[46:18] is there, are you familiar with any of those types of warning

[46:22] indicators?

[46:24] Yes, we have nothing, we have everything is push-activated.

[46:28] Within the city, we have nothing like that, maybe if

[46:33] when you're looking regionally, I believe in Greenfalley

[46:35] Force, was there a bowling brook, or that may be

[46:38] Lyle Township, has something like that along those trails

[46:43] that are crossing Green Road and Royce Road,

[46:46] but nothing in April.

[46:47] Could we consider a little bit more of that type of implementation along our bike paths where you have very risky?

[46:55] I mean it wasn't identified as a risky intersection, but I know this to be very risky here.

[47:01] I think that would be looked at a little closer to make sure that we're covering people.

[47:07] Of course, so part of this plan, not just recommendations that have seen as provided, they've also provided a school kit for crossings.

[47:14] And in that toolkit, there's a, for like, better words, tools for staff to look at on what type of crossing

[47:24] application we should be putting at certain intersections, and that uses speed of vehicles, pedestrian numbers,

[47:30] like this, and across history, all of that.

[47:33] Great. Thank you for explaining that as you know, I'm kind of new to this, but I think it's well worth asking.

[47:39] So I appreciate the time.

[47:44] Thank

[47:47] you, and regards to the feedback from the public is there still opportunity to integrate any of the ideas or recommendations for people are speaking today into it, or if not,

[48:01] procedurally what is the best way to your append, or make sure it gets considered as part of this process.

[48:08] So I guess that would be first to you.

[48:10] Is there a still room to, is it done?

[48:13] No more budget to amend anything in the report itself or their still room to do so?

[48:21] Yeah.

[48:21] So this meeting right now, you guys are receiving the report with the thought that any sort of direction recommendations

[48:32] any sort of comments from the public and then the board with them

[48:37] given to us and we work with Epstein to get back with the team and see if we can make

[48:43] a few more changes to this and then the goal is to come to the October tab with the

[48:48] report as a recommendation for approval for City Council sometime in late October

[48:54] early November. So these two tabs are those opportunities along with the City Council

[48:58] public forum for us to hear the public end of the board.

[49:08] Thank you.

[49:09] Just to clarify.

[49:11] So for the many safety concerns and the recommendations for this plan,

[49:17] as the city moves through the plan implemented over the years,

[49:21] the intention I assume would be to evaluate each segment

[49:25] as you're budgeting and allows for you to focus on that year,

[49:30] And you would re-evaluate the safety and crash the at that time and adjust, you know, if it's saying a bike buffer and now maybe that won't be appropriate 5-10 years now when the implementation actually happens is that

[49:45] That's one to make sure that's correct because there's a lot of things about safety, but we don't know everything, you know, in the future. So it's hard to say today.

[49:52] absolutely. Yeah, this is just a plan at this point. It is also important to understand that this is not a mandate.

[50:00] These are recommendations. The framework for the city of Naperville to use as the implement. There are other steps to be taken before their shovels in the ground, right?

[50:11] There's engineering that has to happen. More public engagement that we recommend happening before you put any shovels in the ground. So there's absolutely opportunities to be making tweaks to these.

[50:24] I'm going to elaborate a little bit more on another piece in the plan is also recommendation for staff to give a choice a year or update two tab on where we're at on the implementation of the plan and next steps.

[50:38] So there'll be plenty of opportunity for feedback through that.

[50:43] Thank you.

[50:44] And that just also wanted to touch on the downtown connections that we're discussed, is that something that can be looked at and I think in the planet currently says it's a bit open ended so I don't know if that's something that we want to refine a bit.

[51:02] More than happy to, so currently the thought, as has been mentioned, one of the large,

[51:09] one of the biggest resume concerns that we got was the connection from, for the debidure

[51:14] of a trail, once you get out onto Hillside, heading northbound, the Hillside, Webster, Aurora,

[51:21] Eagle, Jackson, and then getting back onto the trail at Jefferson, was a concern for residents,

[51:27] And that's highlighted in the intersection studies that are mentioned in the plan.

[51:33] But it is open-ended.

[51:34] So our next step is to do a feasibility study to kind of see what would be possible there.

[51:42] And given the comments from the Councilman and Mr. Hitchcock,

[51:45] we would take those into consideration for that plan and broaden the scope a little bit

[51:50] on just general or self-connection in that part of the downtown.

[51:53] Okay,

[51:56] thank you.

[51:58] Are there any other questions or comments from the Board?

[52:04] Here is no more discussion.

[52:05] I will close this item.

[52:08] The next up is Old Business.

[52:10] Does anyone have anything for Old Business?

[52:20] We have one item for Old Business.

[52:22] So as you guys know, from the last few meetings,

[52:24] we currently have our overnight parking survey that is still open.

[52:28] And it will be open through this September,

[52:29] through September 18th, which is the Friday two weeks from now.

[52:32] We are currently at 2,000 survey responses, which is a lot in the goals to summarize those responses and bring overnight parking recommendations to a future tab in the fall.

[52:46] All right, thank you.

[52:49] All right, here you know, more we'll close old business.

[52:52] Except as new business does anyone have anything for new business?

[53:03] All right, here you know, we'll close new business.

[53:06] I will now entertain a motion and a second for a moment.

[53:09] I will entertain a motion to have a question on this item.

[53:12] do we have a motion in the second to join this meeting?

[53:17] I'll make motion.

[53:18] Mr. Sam.

[53:19] Second.

[53:20] Mr. Hanley.

[53:23] Staff can please call the roll.

[53:25] All those in favor, signify of visiting I.

[53:28] Those opposed name.

[53:29] Mr. Schrum, I.

[53:30] Mr. Olga.

[53:32] Mr. Hurley.

[53:34] Hi.

[53:34] Mr. Nire.

[53:35] Hi.

[53:35] Mr. Webb.

[53:37] Mr. Kuzinski.

[53:39] Hi.

[53:39] Mr. Hanley.

[53:40] All right.

[53:41] Mr. Gang.

[53:42] Hi.

[53:47] And this concludes the September 3rd,

[53:48] 2026 transportation advisory board meeting.

Transportation Advisory Board on 2026-09-03 7:00 PM

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