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Frank Powell.

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Good evening.

My name is Frank Palm.

I live at 625 Chicago Avenue.

I'm here tonight to try to persuade you to put a guardrail in front of the residence at uh 524 Madison Street.

In recent years, we've had two accidents going up the hill.

Uh one of which uh the car jumped the side jumped the curb over the sidewalk and stopped when it hit a retaining wall to home.

The second uh one, which was uh recently, uh same thing occurred.

The car jumped the curb over the sidewalk and uh ended up against the porch of the residence on I think it is 2524.

Uh both of these to me seem to be proof that there needs to be some type of guardrail at that particular spot.

Um I understand uh your reluctance to do that, um, and I know they recommended putting a chevron, indicating that there was a turn in that particular road going up the hill.

Um, but I think that would not serve the purpose at this time.

Uh in both cases, I believe uh there was excess of speed going up the hill, and also uh possibly intoxication in both accidents.

I understand that there's also uh a couple of comments that I would like to make uh in your uh cover sheet that you've got, one of which is the that the proposed guardrail would only prevent vehicles from traveling uphill from running off the road.

Um that is true, it would only prevent them from going off the road going up the hill.

You presently have a guardrail on the same side of the road to prevent cars from going off the road only only going down the hill.

And if you did a little research, you would find out that in the last probably 10 years there have been no accidents against that guardrail, but in fact the cars have made the bend and have gone off the road and ran into the Salvation Army's front stores, uh front doorsteps, which case Salvation Army has already put up two bullards to stop that problem.

So that guardrail going down the hill really has not served purpose, so the rationale about putting it only for the uphill doesn't make a lot of sense.

Um the other one would be to um the idea of putting only on uh chevrons indicating going up the hill.

Presently you have five chevrones there already.

The last accident, the car knocked that chevron down, one of them down, which proceeded to hit the front porch.

Um so I don't think adding a sixth one is going to make any difference at this point in time.

Um a guardrail and uh the other part of this passage down at the bottom here says guardrail with would reduce uh would have problems with the right-of-way, and that due to this increased risk, it is not recommended that it engineering perspective that to install additional guardrail along Madison from uh aspect of risk to the city.

My understanding is that uh that's not really the case.

Um the first accident that occurred, the gentleman actually jumped the curb and hit the uh retaining wall.

He then proceeded to back up and drive farther down to his home, farther down Madison Street.

So the idea of risk of injury to the person driving the vehicle is not does not make a lot of sense.

In the first place, the car is going to absorb any guardrail contact along with any of the airbags that will deploy.

So risk to a driver or passengers, passengers in that vehicle is not really real.

I think there needs to be a guardrail.

I wish you to consider it.

I wished you proposed that they put a guardrail there.

It is not that expensive.

And if it's going to cause a problem because it's going to take public works away from uh other jobs.

Uh I always thought that when a job came up, you put it on a shopping list of jobs to be done.

They were prioritized, and you went according to that.

Not whether it's going to take them away from leaf or branch pickup or other items.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Lisa Salb.

Good evening, Lisa Salb 434 Madison Street.

Um, I can see this uh curve out of our window, and um I uh agree with everything that Frank said.

In fact, I was um I'm the president of the Tower Hill Neighborhood Association, and um we're very active in the park.

Um we have a bulletin board.

I was changing it today.

Um we have a lot of foot traffic uh right through that area as well.

So uh that's also something to consider.

And um, I was snap uh snapping some pictures, and uh as Frank says, there are already four chevrons there, and they have not uh served the purpose of stopping uh potential uh hazardous things happening in that area.

Um another thing to mention our our neighborhood um does the planting of the planters every year, and we have had multiple uh concrete planters hit right in that area as well.

And so if they're coming up the hill and hit a 200-pound concrete full of wet soil, um, wouldn't it be better for them to bounce off of a guardrail than hitting that head on?

Um, so that would be something else to consider as well.

So please for the safety of our neighborhood, let us have a guardrail.

Thank you.

Thank you.