The meeting of the committee on pedestrian traffic, safety
is now called to order for September 6th 2023. We will now
have a roll call to establish, warm will orders, please
make sure their microphones are unmuted. Terminal Espada
present vice-chair Cruz.
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Orland Chico.
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Orlin and Cohen.
Vice mayor Burnett.
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Aultman Lawson.
Chairman Martin.
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Well glad to have you for Coral. Nevertheless we do. In
fact have a quorum. We also have non-member alderwoman and
chairwoman Deborah Silverstein joining us. Great to have
you for this ordinance.
we have 10 members present, we have a quorum now that we
have established quorum
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I believe we have a request from all the women Coleman to
appear remotely in accordance with rule 59 of the city
council Rules of Order and procedure. And with sub-section
8 of section, 7 of the open meetings act under Route 59 and
older person may appear at a committee meeting by Audio or
visual conference, if the member is prevented from
physically attending because of personal illness or
disability employment, or the business of the public body
or family or other emergency vote.
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friends with us?
Aaron alderwoman Coleman has not joined resume yet.
Well mayhaps, we will come back to that motion. If and when
she joins us, but we will proceed with. Now Oldman Knutson
counting you for the purpose of Purim. Thank you for
joining us at this time, we will begin the public comment
period out of respect. For everybody's time sheet. Speaker
is limited to three minutes. Pursuant to rule 58e public
comment will be limited to 30 minutes and yet as it is, we
do not have anyone sign up in person or online for public.
Comment that said, our first order of business is the rule
45 report from July, which was sent out to the committee.
May have a motion to approve, the rule, 45 report, old
woman may not happen. So moves all of those in favor of
passing a report respond by saying, I
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all those opposed say, nay
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in the opinion of the chair, the eyes haven't, we will go
out of order and begin with the routine matters on our
agenda. Beginning on page two, can I have a motion to
recommend approval of all direct introduction ordinances on
pages 2 through 6? By the same roll call vote as was
applied to determine quarrel. So moved almond Lawson. Thank
you hearing no objections. So ordered, let us turn to page
7, which Begins the recommended portion of the agenda. Can
I get a motion to recommend approval of all recommended
ordinances on page 7 by the same roll call vote as was
applied to determine quorum.
so,
So moved almond Martin hearing no objections. So ordered
now we will move on to the not recommended portion of the
agenda on page, eight, can I get a motion to recommend
approval? Also, not recommended ordinances, 1224b passed
over the Department's recommendation by the same roll call
vote as was applied to determine quorum.
so,
So move almond Yancey hearing no objections to ordered on
page 9. Can I get a motion to recommend approval of all?
Not recommended, ordinances 1221. He passed over the
Department's recommendation by the same roll. Call vote as
was applied to determine quora.
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Old woman will not happen worth so moves. Hearing no
objections to ordered on page ten can I get a motion to
recommend approval of all? Not recommended ordinances, 1
through 10. You pass over the Department's recommendation
by the same roll, call vote, as was applied to determine
quorum.
Going once going twice Alderman. Lawson sew moves hearing
no objections. So ordered the conclude this concludes the
routine ordinances of today's committee meeting we will now
return to page one item one, which is an ordinance
introduced by all the woman Silverstein and co-sponsored by
myself, Alders, galmiche Ramirez Quinn, Gutierrez Lopez
Coleman more Curtis O'Shea, cheekily, Villegas Miss
Burnett, Irvin Nugent Taliaferro Cruise Napolitano Riley,
Cardona Nelson Lawson Gardner, my Martin minnaugh,
hoppenworth hadn't and Barks this is Ordnance o 2023.
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001-2528 and Amendment of the municipal code Title Nine, by
adding new chapter, 9-11 6 intitle, traffic crash, review,
and Analysis you, having fun of you a substitute ordinance
and received it over, email as well. Can I have a motion to
accept the substitute?
So I moved all the women may not happen or hearing no
objections. So ordered I will. Now ask if you would come up
to the the front and silver seem to share a little bit more
about the ordinance.
Good afternoon colleagues, I think you would Sherman
laspada and thank you for all the support that this
ordinance has received. I also want to thank Robert.
Schultz was here today from the active Transportation
Alliance for being here today to testify. This new
legislation aims to help end the crisis of Road violence.
We are seeing on Chicago Streets, two years ago, a nine
year old, boy was killed in the 50th Ward, while riding his
bike. On a residential block, the outpouring of grief in my
community.
Start a new.
Start an overwhelming. Last year, another eight children,
pedestrians and cyclists were killed on Chicago Streets by
drivers.
We?
We all know a problem hotspots in our Wards streets are
intersections that just aren't state. Does new ordinance
will give us the data. We need to identify those locations
and recommendations on how to make them safer. The track
traffic crash review and Analysis. Ordinance will require
see. To provide stakeholders and the public with a timely
analysis of all fatal crashes, as well as new reports
focused on Friends, safety and crash hotspots. These
reports can be a blueprint to help us fix crash hot spots
and keep our community safe. This ordinance requires data
to conduct an analysis after every fatal. Trash traffic
crash in the city and identify potential actions to improve
safety. It also requires C. To publish preliminary
information on fatal crashes, on a monthly basis as well as
an annual summary report every year. The legislation is
supported by a number of advocacy group.
Thanks.
Including active trans bike grid now and bike lane Uprising.
Traffic, crashes are up sharply in recent years, in 2021
174 Chicagoans were killed on city streets, a 10% increase
over the previous year. Crashes, involving cyclists are up
30% from 2020 and have reached nearly 1,200 crashes. So far
this year the need for this ordinance is clear and present.
Its ordinance would give us the tools. We need to help stop
this problem at the route and I greatly appreciate your
support. Thank you, we will now have testimony regarding
this ordinance W. Robert Schultz, the third of active
Transportation Alliance is here to testify in favor of this
ordinance. And Dave Smith on the Department of
Transportation is here, answer any of your questions. Mr.
Schultz. We will now pass the microphone to you if you
would state your name and title for the record,
Yes.
Yes, scuse me. I m w Roberts shells, to 3rd and my campaign
organizer at active Transportation Alliance, where
organization to organization dedicated to improving
conditions for walking biking and public transportation in
Chicago and good afternoon, honorable ottoman, active
Transportation, actively support and encourage the passage
of the crash Legacy ordinance. That is on today's agenda,
we think
Autumn.
Waterman.
Waterman Silverstein for introducing this legislation active
trans has rallied. Its allies around. The call for Safe
Streets for all Chicago faces, a traffic safety crisis in
2022. There were more than 180,000 crashes involving more
than two hundred and twenty-six thousand people in Chicago,
based on active trans analysis of publicly available
information from the city's data portal. There were
thirty-four thousand, people struck by a hit-and-run
drivers, with 2,200 people having severe injuries last
year, there were 147 fatalities with 42 being pedestrian
fatalities and 8 cyclist fatalities
in.
In 2023, according to streetsblog Chicago, there have been
19, pedestrian fatalities and 3 bicyclists fatalities. The
most recent reported pedestrian fatality occurred on
August. 20th. 3 in front of alderman Byron sigcho Lopez
25th Ward office.
These.
These statistics show that people who are outside of Motor
Vehicles are especially susceptible to traffic Violet,
including children older adults and people with
disabilities. Currently, Chicago does not have state
streets for all the crash. Legacy ordinance will help
Chicago, begin to reverse the trend of fatalities on the
street by documenting where crashes occur and documenting
the actions to ameliorate. The conditions leading to
crashes and fatalities after transfer leaves and requiring
C. Released timely analysis of all fatal traffic crashes.
Reported to see PD will lay a documentation framework to
remedy traffic by
The.
The ordinance requires identification of solutions to
increase traffic safety and coordination with relevant
agencies. Requiring a monthly summary of fatal crashes,
with preliminary analysis, along with an annual report will
be a means to hold the city accountable to focus attention
on Trends patterns using our safety and crash hot spot
available requirement in. The ordinance is a in a report
that summarizes the actions taken in response to crashes,
the report would outline that strategy is an investment
made to mitigate the likelihood of crashes reoccurring.
and,
In the same.
In the same location, we encourage the passage of the
ordinance out of committee for a full City Council. Vote
enactment will bring Chicago closer to the goal of Safe
Streets for all. Thank you.
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allow old woman Coleman to attend this meeting remotely
ordman Martin and so moves.
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boron. Thank you so much.
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Cheering. Now, I would like to ask if we have any questions
or comments from the committee regarding the ordinance in
front of us. Yes, or no more, thank you, chairman. I just
wanted to take a minute to commend our colleague alderwoman
Silverstein on very much needed. Since I know that as we
continue to experience fatal crashes involving car drivers
in and around 47 that thankfully with Dave Smith from seed
on his team we have been able to move quickly to bring
about those improvements.
But to really stay.
But to really standardized this process, I think is
absolutely critical because it's, I think one of the modest
but meaningful things that we can do in the wake of the
tragedies that are happening with greater frequency. Like
you, you mention older woman, so my gratitude, to you and
your team for introducing this. And I look forward to
supporting these
Thank.
Thank you for.
Thank you very much. Altima Martin any further questions?
Or this morning? Also has a very highly walkable
neighborhood and that's my primary mode of transportation.
This is very important to me and I appreciate that. Looking
at it at the Citywide I feel like a lot of us work in our
Wards and and put things together and if it's across the
street, you know, we can't find that with you know, what
we're going to do that here. If we're able to look and end
the folks are bike right now to talk about a grid that goes
throughout the entire city has as real connections. And I
asked you this morning helping us in those ways. What was
we can look Citywide IT issues and then crafter, local
responses. You know what we're using our menu to improve
safety for pedestrians bikes every year. A lot of times, I
feel like we're kind of guessing or it's based on
colloquial data or a feeling sometimes, and, and we need
that we need really good data. I think there are
Number of high-profile crashes.
Number of high-profile crashes, in my neighbor and calling
all the Martins ward in the 46th Ward, I think there are
trends that we can look at from that work in one
neighborhood and we all have a 6-way intersection or two
and how to make Jose for a hot house. We work together look
Citywide. So thank you again. Other than silver stay in the
end. I'm sure this will be a great tool for us all going
forward. Thank you.
Any other BS or woman win?
Thank.
IKEA chair. Thank you all doing Silverstein for introducing
this ordinance. As someone who also participated in bike
the drive. This week, I want to thank active Transportation
Alliance for continuing that yearly, incredible
opportunities, for Chicago, to be on South Lakeshore, Drive
in a very Safeway and then imagine what the Safe Streets.
Could truly look like when we are not censoring a car's as
someone from the Edgewater Andersonville area where we do
and how we had a recent fatal hit-and-run on Broadway and
this is absolutely necessary for us to be data-driven to
move forward in ways that
Take.
Text you.
Take seriously. The infrastructure. That is fighting against
us and not keeping us safe. Not keeping our students safe,
not keeping our older adults safe. And so, I want to thank
you and in teams here who want to move forward to, to work
towards that and a data-driven and I look forward to
working with you more on this. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank.
Thank you, chairman and also tournaments. It was in. This
is very important for the 30th Ward, as we constantly
receive calls regarding the safety of pedestrian, and that
is a priority for yourself and my team as well. So when you
reach out to me about this organism is absolutely will will
support. It will be with you cuz we do have to protect
specially around school. That the one of our main concerns
about keeping our children safe but also our by a bicyclist
as well as we want to make sure that we are more active on
on matters. That make sure that you know, we hear a
residence, we see the data but to have more data and be
more proactive, I think it's what's going to make the
difference here to save life. So I just want to say thank
you for taking the time to doing this since I'm protecting
all of our residents throughout the city. So thank you so
much.
Don't you go there as a Chicago police officer? I've been
on these scenes, serious, and fatal. And after leaving the
scene and reflecting on what happened. And what we can do,
I'm happy to see this. I'm happy, if you some work being
done, I'm happy to see what part of the solution. So thank
you for bringing this to us. And this is a great thing.
I've seen too many of these, and it's close to my heart.
Yes, I already answered this amendment in 2020 and seems
like folks who used traffic laws is optional and supposed
to and what they were designed to do. We just keep all of
us safe and and what sort of the uptake and this behavior.
I'm just glad to be able to be here and in being supportive
us. Thank you so much.
If not, I might like to say a few words not only in support
of this ordinance but to call it just a couple particular
things. Number one, I'm glad that the ordinance includes
the participation the nest soup that participation from
IDOC from the Illinois Department of Transportation.
We need them as partners for the safety of our
constituents. We need their data, their information. I know
that there used to be a long, long time on that data,
getting to see. That. Lag. Has shortened but it is still
significant but I'm glad we have the information, the full
scope of information. We need for this work of the
committee. Hopes actually come back to you in the future to
look further at what I. C. Collaboration can look at. What
are some of the obstacles to that how we trying to
facilitate or overcome some of those obstacles from the
past. But I'll just no one specific instance, that calls
out to me, from my ward, which is thinking back on the
death of a young man named Tyler faybach, who in the First
Ward was killed in a crash on his bike in 2008 at the
corner.
Logan and Wes.
Logan and Western.
Ark.
Our community knew about this. At the time, they were
horrified and saddened. At the time, we had just about 13,
14 years of calls for Action, including from active
Transportation Alliance, and yet, it was not until Kevin
Clarke was killed in the very same spot on his bicycle. In
2021 that we finally saw action. And there is a world in
which we had this ordinance. We had this report sooner. We
had this data sooner that prevents deaths like Kevin's and
so that's why I'm excited and it is sad, but hopeful way
about what's in front of us today and that the need the
utility of this and keeping more healthy and with us and
getting home safe.
So with those words again, going back to page, one may have
a motion to recommend approval of substitute ordinance.
Esso, 2023 Dash 0 0, 0 1 2, 5, 3 by the same roll call vote
as was applying to determine a quorum.
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Close. But I'm not. I'm going to give it to vice-chair. Cruz
hearing no objections. So ordered we will report these
items out at the city council meeting scheduled for
September 13th. 2023, what there being no further business
before the committee? Can I have a motion to adjourn?
All.
Ormond Lawson. So move all those in favor. Signify by
saying, I
We are sojourned. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.