Aurora, Illinois

File #: 14-00800    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Reports/Studies Status: Filed
File created: 9/16/2014 In control: Government Operations Committee
On agenda: 10/28/2014 Final action: 11/4/2014
Title: A Traffic Study for Molitor Road approaching Diehl Road. Ward 1, Alderman Bohman.
Sponsors: Public Works
TO:      Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
 
FROM:      Eric J. Gallt, City Traffic Engineer  
 
DATE:      October 6, 2014  
 
SUBJECT:title
A Traffic Study for Molitor Road approaching Diehl Road.  Ward 1, Alderman Bohman.  
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PURPOSE:
To determine the volume of truck traffic on Molitor Road from Selmarten Road to the beginning of Diehl Road.  
 
BACKGROUND:
An E-mail was sent to Eric J. Gallt, City Traffic Engineer, requesting a better way to alert tractor-trailer trucks that they are not allowed to exit their industrial complexes by going west on Molitor Road to Farnsworth Avenue.  .  
 
DISCUSSION:
About 47 to 50 tractor-trailer trucks per-day travel west towards the NO TRUCK ZONE on Molitor Road, stretching from Farnsworth Avenue to Diehl Road.  A better way is needed to alert tractor-trailer trucks that they are not allowed to exit their industrial complexes by going west on Molitor Road to Farnsworth Avenue.  
 
IMPACT STATEMENT:
Operations will need to install the truck signage (designed and located by the City Traffic Engineer.)  
 
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Staff recommends 'No Truck' standard signage for westbound Diehl Road at McKesson Street.
 
 
cc:      Alderman Hart-Burns, Chairman
      Alderman Johnson
      Alderman Mesiacos
      Alderman Mervine, Alternate