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Street Right-Sizing Initiative

Peoria, Illinois
Develop a Street "Right-Sizing" Initiative for overbuilt arterial streets within the City that allows for the reduction and/or reallocation of underutilized lane miles of roadway and provides focused - or even increased - maintenance on the lane m...
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Create a Crosstown Boulevard

Peoria, Illinois
Study the feasability of and develop a scheme for a crosstown boulevard to replace the existing sunken Interstate 74 through downtown Peoria.
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Better access to real-time transportation info

Chicago, Illinois
I represent a start-up company called TransitScreen. We develop visual displays of real-time transportation info, representing all available public transportation options at a given location. Our tool helps travelers evaluate travel options in rea...
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Citizen-Sourced Problem Solving

Peoria, Illinois
Our City faces a number of difficult challenges, including those in the realms of infrastructure, economic opportunity, and community well-being. The municipal government works to address these challenges through its programs on a daily basis, but...
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Seventhwave

Chicago, Illinois
Seventhwave is an independent nonprofit with offices in Chicago and Madison. Our mission drives our passion to solve the toughest technical problems of the clean energy transition. Our research leads to real energy savings that reduce our climate ...

Expedite Transit Planning and Construction

Columbus, Ohio
At their best, planning processes and environmental reviews both protect and involve the public in the projects that will affect the place they call home. However, this can be a long and drawn out process. In order to expedite the transit planning...
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Gather Usable Data on Social Determinants of Health

Peoria, Illinois
The conditions into which people are born, grow, and age are widely regarded as playing a fundamental role in our health and well-being. Yet, there is an insufficient level of collaboration or monitoring of social determinants and health outcomes....
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AMTRAK RAIL SERVICE

Peoria, Illinois
I believe this will provide another option to get in and out of Peoria along with free parking. There used to be service in Chillicothe a long time ago. Let's bring it to Peoria.
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Park(ing) Deck

Peoria, Illinois
Decrease the cost of multiple projects and increase neighborhood vitality by combining diverse amenities into one project. The Park(ing) Deck places a green roof top of needed Warehouse District parking decks, providing protection from sun, sn...
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Forest Preserve Accessibility

Chicago, Illinois
The site that this project would improve is the Schiller Woods forest preserve. The park has multiple trails and other programs but the main issue is that it is hard to find and enter. This idea is to put a map to the park in the nearby bus statio...
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High Street Bluff Access Walking Path

Peoria, Illinois
Provide a safe, lighted and developed walking path with access to downtown Peoria, the Riverfront, and the University of Illinois from the densest population neighborhood in Peoria. This would make walking to downtown an attractive alternative ...
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Change Signal System Timing Plan

Peoria, Illinois
Develop a signal system timing plan oriented toward slowing vehicle speeds in the downtown and enhancing pedestrian and bicycle comfort.
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Downtown Shuttle/Trolley: a free hop-on/hop-off shuttle in the downtown

Peoria, Illinois
Provide a free, hop-on/hop-off trolley in the downtown that runs 7 days a week, from 6:00 AM - 12:00 AM, that has a vehicle stop at any designated stop every ten minutes or less. This would allow people to live and work downtown without the need ...
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Add East-to-West Public Transportation

Chicago, Illinois
Idea posted on behalf of an Outreach Meeting 2 Attendee: Add public transit service that travels east to west through the site and connects neighborhoods on both sides of the Chicago River / Expressway.
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New "central transit center" on the near south lakefront

Chicago, Illinois
Create a new "central transit center" on the lakefront serving the museum campus/lucas museum/mccormick place/depaul arena area. it would encompass and connect: + create new streetcar services that might arise from the "museum campus transit...

Wayfinding

Peoria, Illinois
Provide adequate wayfinding throughout the downtown for pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The signage should be attractive, comprehensive, uniform, and easily update-able! The goal of the wayfinding would be to improve the movement of people aroun...
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CTA Line for Southeast Chicago

Chicago, Illinois
Recently some groups have been calling for Metra to convert to an "L"-like timetable with trains running every 10 or 15 minutes. http://chi.streetsblog.org/2016/01/1...ike-the-cta-l/ But I have another, crazier idea. In 2013, CTA pulled all ...
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Save the Chicago Avenue Bridge from Demolition

Chicago, Illinois
We believe that the Chicago Avenue Bridge should be restored and the City should plan for more effective ways to move people efficiently across the Chicago River. We object to the proposed tear down & replacement because 1) the bridge and its uniq...
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