I would like to call the transportation advisory board meeting for May 7th, 2026 to order.

Staff may you please conduct the roll call.

Mr.

Hurley?

Here.

Mr.

Kriswinski?

Here.

Ms.

Neyer?

Here.

Mr.

Nibel.

Mr.

Strome?

Here.

Mr.

Olger.

Here.

Miss Rose?

Here.

Mr.

Webb.

Here.

Councilman McGroom?

Here.

Student member Solkolowski.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Warnful.

Thank you.

So we have a quorum.

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, as 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 terminated 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, we'd 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.

Okay, 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 uh, or staff, do we have any speakers signed up to speak as part of the public forum?

We have one speaker, Robbie King.

I know that just by show hands, is everyone okay with him passing out?

Please do.

You may provide staff as well.

All right.

Well, thank you and good evening.

My name is Robbie King.

Um I'm a resident of Chicago, but I happen to live um, I happen to work in Naperville.

Um 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 uh PACE bus routes um 714 and 722 uh to and from uh 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.

So whatever 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, um in Aprilville, and uh maybe a broader safety concern.

So I believe that this puts pedestrian safety at risk, um, unnecessary risk, might I add, um, where they could be stranded or at worst hit by a vehicle.

So the implications of this, um, and really you can you can see some diagrams that I've kind of put together.

Um, to access or leave this bus stop, pedestrians are forced into one of three unsafe options.

Either cross a busy multi-lane intersection of two strodes um with fast-moving traffic, uh, jaywalk across the roadway, which is such as what I do, um, where there's no crosswalk at a place that is safe, but also wait in the medium, 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, um, I see at worst this situation unnecessarily puts lives at risk.

At best, it adds an avoidable time and distance to a daily commute, despite the presence of a nearby bus stop.

Um, and so um 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, um I have some call outs for the bus stop, um, no sidewalk or curb cuts and then no crosswalks.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much, Mr.

King.

Um, while we have time, can the staff since I know that these roads are not uh the jurisdiction of the city of Naperville but are within the limits of city of Naperville?

Do you have any guidance for how this can be communicated to the jurisdictions that are responsible?

Yeah, so uh both Warrenville Road and April Road are uh Dupe H County highways.

Uh so the city doesn't have any jurisdiction at that intersection.

Uh, but what we can do is forward this along to Duke H County.

They are actually doing a uh road resurfacing project which includes intersection improvements on Naperville Road this summer uh from IADA to Ridgeland Naperweedon.

Uh so they will be in that area.

Uh so there could be an opportunity potentially to see this in uh this year, but we will let them know uh tomorrow about this, and uh uh we have your email and contact information.

We'll say 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 out.

So I believe that's the 714 or the 722.

But thank you.

Thank you.

And uh Mr.

Burser, there's also the Naperville pedestrian and bicycle plan that's being developed that it would be inclusive of this as well, correct?

Uh yeah, so the Naperville uh or the bicycle and pedestrian uh project update or plan update uh 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 Dupeach County, and they have uh made it very clear that they want to uh in the future develop Warrenville Road to have a little bit more uh bike-friendly access, and that would include Naperville Road and Mill Street and Washington Street on our end, uh, just to ensure that Napoleon residents have access to Donata 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 are given to the board in advance of the meeting on this topic.

I we do have written statements that uh were given on a different topic though.

When should we acknowledge those now or during uh whole business?

Uh so uh any written comments uh you can use this time now uh as a board if there are any discussion on any either writing comments or any public forum that has occurred today.

Okay.

So there were submitted written statements from Barbara Vetter of Naperville, Jinta Sidris of Naperville, Joseph McGarry of Naperville, Joseph Jurassic of Naperville, uh all regarding on-street parking and some pro, some against there was also a position statement for uh the approval to recommend establish a two-way stop control at the intersection of what we're talking about this evening.

Uh position of support for it by Kevin Flynn.

Our next order of business are the reports and recommendations.

First up is agenda item 26-0589 to approve the minutes of the February 5th, 2026 Transportation Advisory Board meeting.

I will entertain the motion to have a discussion on this item.

Do we have a motion and a second?

So moved.

Moved by Mr.

Webb.

Second.

Second by Mr.

Strom.

Okay.

Um approved.

Do we have any revisions or comments regarding the minutes?

No.

Okay.

Staff, can we please have the roll call?

All those favor and signifying by saying aye and those opposed saying nay.

Mr.

Hurley?

Aye.

Mr.

Kruzwinsky?

Aye.

Ms.

Nyer?

Hi.

Mr.

Strome.

Here.

I, pardon me.

Mr.

Olger.

Aye.

Miss Rose.

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

Motion passes and we approve the minutes of the February 5th, 2026 Transportation Advisory Board Meeting as submitted.

Next we have the police department report from Sergeant Muskott.

Thank you.

That's good seeing you.

It's been my I think last time I saw y'all was in December.

So hope everyone's doing well.

So since then, we've had three step grant uh activities.

Uh Christmas, New Year's, St.

Pat's, and last month's April Distracted Driving Awareness Month.

Um combined with those three step grants, officers worked uh two hundred and forty-one total hours, stopped 319 vehicles issuing 328 uh citations.

Uh during the April distracted driving alone, 166 uh citations for distracted driving.

Um we have Route 59 59 on Route 59 uh enforcement day that's coming up uh obviously May 9th.

Shockingly enough, uh, this coming Saturday.

So that is a partnership we work with any juris most jurisdictions who work along Route 59 will be participating in that um in their jurisdictions on Saturday.

Uh so you will see an increased enforcement efforts out there uh 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.

Uh so we'll start obviously in the beginning of the year with that with the colder weather.

We did have a couple um random really warm days in February.

So we had a couple complaints come in and one uh crash involving an e-scooter that did result in some non-life-threatening injuries to the uh scooter rider.

March, we got one crash, no injuries, sixteen complaints total that were uh trackable and that came in last month.

We were gonna we started to see a bit of an increase uh up to 37 uh combined with again just one crash so far that month.

I know we have one already in May.

Um, but I do seeing this trend and with the warmer weather and school getting out soon.

Um we do expect an uptick in e-bike, e-scooter, uh, emoto.

They're all different things, but same category kind of uh when it comes to uh our enforcement and the complaints we receive on them.

Um so we are adding uh directed downtown enforcement on weekends that started a few weeks ago and will run through the summer.

Um additional officers will be down there uh handling directed complaints, parking garages, uh loud exhaust e-bikes, uh our school resource officers are also posted down there in the summer when they're when obviously the 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.

Um so uh that is it.

Thank you, Sergeant Muska, and for you and the entire police department service of the city.

Does anyone have any questions or comments for Sergeant Musk?

Mr.

Webb.

The crashes with the East by City scooters.

I mean, what age are we looking at with those?

So far, they're early to mid-teens.

Uh one of the crashes was a uh hit and run where the offender was on one of these emotos.

Like electric uh motorcycle more or less.

Um so we don't know that person's age.

They were they weren't a part of a group, but I would assume saying mid mid-teenage age is what we're seeing the most of when they stop for it's when we try to stop them.

Any additional questions?

Hearing none, we will close the police department report.

Next we have 26-0572 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 Ms.

Smith, you have uh the floor, it's not connecting to our church.

Uh staff received a request from a resident to evaluate the right of way control at the intersect section of Bigfoot Lane slash Bel Air Court and Zaninger Avenue.

This is a four-leg intersection, which currently has two-way yield control with Bigfoot Lane and Belling Air Court yielding to Zanninger Av.

Staff conducted an investigation.

Sorry, an intersection site 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 Av.

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

Thank you very much, Ms.

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 uh to establish two-way stop control at the intersection of Bigfoot Lane Delar Court and Zeninger Avenue?

So moved.

Uh a motion from Mr.

Olger.

Second.

And second from Mr.

Gruzinski.

I apologize.

Okay.

Um 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.

Uh I'm Kevin Flynn.

Uh, 987 Creekside Circle.

Uh 20 years at that resident, 50 50 year plus in Naperville.

Um about three months ago.

My son was involved in a serious accident uh at this intersection, which is why I'm here to petition it.

I request some stop signs.

Thank you for your approval.

Um I have a video just to uh 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?

We actually go and get my car service.

So I'm in the first car right there going by.

And that's my son.

Right there, I can't even see it or not.

Your screen I can play it again here.

It was it happens pretty quick in like the 10 seconds here, but the person southbound on Bigfoot did not yield at all.

So, he's okay.

I brought pictures of damage of my car too in the flash drive.

So we have a tackle to that.

It's not G.

I think it's a yeah, uh, technically.

So Barron very narrowly avoided a very serious accident with uh a driver's side door just being missed there.

Um I was pastoring Sergeant Musca on how to get this uh approved.

So let's see if I need to wait to get usually there's arrows over here.

So that's the damage to my beautiful Lincoln that's totaled.

Twenty five thousand dollars in damage.

And I thought this was interesting with the perspective.

Um, the horse's car was also severely damaged.

Um I have a perspective on the yield sign.

It's not like significant, so thank you for your approval.

If my car being towed away, more damage, sorry, I got the wrong one here.

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, uh, right where the other version of my side.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And uh for the record, Mr.

Flynn also has a written uh 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.

Uh due diligence was done to confirm that the from an engineering standard standpoint that this it's appropriate for it.

A stop sign.

Yeah.

Uh yeah, so we evaluate several things when looking at stop control, one of them being intersection site distance.

Um, so this location wouldn't meet warrants based on volumes or crash history, uh, which are some of the other criteria looked at, but um 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.

Kriswinski.

Aye, Miss Nyer.

Hi.

Mr.

Strom.

Aye.

Mr.

Olger.

Aye.

Miss Rose.

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

Motion passes and we approve a recommendation to establish two-way stop control at the intersection of Bigfoot Lane, Bellar Court, and Zeninger Avenue.

Next we have 26-0590.

Approve a recommendation to update the speed limits to traffic schedule within Title 11 of the municipal code.

Mr.

Brewster, it's your four.

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 Tab 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.

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 old the entire thing under the same speed limit or dirt, but there are some streets that there are taken.

And I'm just curious any taken out.

Just for reasons, that's all.

That's a great question.

So in the effort, uh there's about fifteen hundred entries in our speed limit code, and in an effort to not include all the uh code items that we are keeping in the code.

I did not include those in in this item.

It's just the uh ones that we are modifying or taking out.

Uh so even though there are uh 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 uh duplicates, so throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties as speed limit got updated.

Unfortunately, alright, I apologize.

Unfortunately, uh staff in the past uh were not removing uh those code sections when adding a new ones.

Uh and then along with that there are a few sections that are being removed that are uh 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 uh a discussion on this item?

So moved.

Moved by Mr.

Webb.

Second.

Second by Ms.

Rose.

Okay.

Uh 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.

Mr.

Hurley.

I apologize.

Is there public comments?

There are no public speakers.

Okay, thank you.

Mr.

Hurley.

Aye.

Mr.

Chris Winski.

Aye.

Ms.

Snyer?

Aye.

Mr.

Strom.

Aye.

Mr.

Olger.

Ms.

Rose.

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

Motion passes and we approve a recommendation to update these speed limits.

Traffic schedule within Title Eleven of Municipal Code.

Moving on to old business.

Does anyone have any uh items regarding old business?

Uh 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 23rd 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.

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, finalized project recommendations, and finish drafting the plan documents, which will be presented at the August tab for public forum.

Thank you, Ms.

Smith.

Any additional old business?

Hearing none, we will close old business.

Next up is new business.

Uh 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 you'd like.

So Mr.

Webb.

Thank you, Mr.

Hurley.

Um I remember our first what three or four meetings were on Zoom.

Because we started on the board in SmackDab in the middle of COVID.

So the we amazingly got a lot of stuff done in those Zoom meetings, including the um the sidewalk program.

We walked through like 40 of those in an online meeting, which is pretty amazing.

So it was great once we actually got here in person.

Um 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'd already remember what we talked about.

The staff didn't bring stuff for the next meeting.

It's like, oh yeah, we did ask them about that.

They have the answer.

And so just very greatly enjoying my time on the board.

Like to, you know, thank both um Mayor Treco and Mayor Worley for the appointments.

And who knows, then maybe we'll see where this goes as far as further service to 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, Strib.

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 up under a lot about like civil engineering as a whole and something I'm once 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 uh Jim's comments.

Uh it's really been a privilege, and I think I probably got more out of it than anyone else, but really being able to participate in the whole process of what it means to be uh a citizen and 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 out.

Thank you, everyone.

Okay, uh any additional new business at this time.

All right.

Uh we do have one item.

Uh so in the fall of twenty twenty-five, city council asked staff to review the overnight parking ordinance and provide uh potential alternatives to the current code.

Uh TED staff, along with DPW, PD and FIRE reviewed the overnight parking ordinance along with the pros and cons of different alternatives.

The re the recommendations from this review process were on the April twenty first 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 uh 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, Chris Christa.

Ms.

Did you have it?

Okay, thank you.

Any additional new business?

Okay, hearing none, we'll close new business.

I will now entertain a motion and a second for adjournment.

Do we have a motion?

So I'll move.

So moved by Mr.

Olger.

Second.

Second on Ms.

Nair.

Okay.

Staff, can we please call the roll?

All those in favor signifying by saying aye, and those nay.

Mr.

Hurley?

Aye.

Mr.

Kriswinski?

Aye.

Miss Nyer?

Hi.

Mr.

Strom.

Mr.

Olker.

Aye.

Miss Rose.

Aye.

Mr.

Webb.

Aye.

And this concludes the May 7th, 2026 Transportation Advisory Board Meeting.