{"id":11909,"date":"2018-12-08T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2018-12-08T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:56:28","slug":"river-north-tulip-planting-event-with-alderman-reilly-over-1300-tulips-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=11909","title":{"rendered":"River North Tulip Planting Event with Alderman Reilly – Over 1300 Tulips in the Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"On Saturday, November 10, Alderman Reilly hosted a Tulip Bulb Planting Event in River North. \u00a0Thank you to all the RNRA volunteers who came out in the cold to plant, Peet’s Coffee and Tea for donating hot coffee and Alderman Reilly who personally purchased the tulip bulbs which will blossom into beautiful purple, yellow and red tulips in the Spring<\/p>\n

Over 100 Jumbo Darwin Mix tulip bulbs were planted in each new curb extension that is part of Alderman Reilly’s new traffic calming improvement project recently installed in River North. \u00a0Vital infrastructre improvements were installed in response to reports of speeding cars and pedestrian safety concerns along Erie Street, between Kingsbury and Sedgwick. Alderman Reilly\u00a0allocated a portion of his Aldermanic Menu to fund the installation of these important River North safety improvements.<\/p>\n

River North is home to a large (and growing) number of families, as well as several daycares and a popular park with robust children’s and dog amenities. All of these factors contribute to significant pedestrian traffic along Erie Street in\u00a0River North.<\/p>\n

Alderman Reilly asked the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) to survey West Erie Street, from N. Kingsbury Street to N. Sedgwick Street.\u00a0CDOT traffic engineers developed a comprehensive traffic calming design intended to\u00a0slow vehicular traffic and improve pedestrian safety along West Erie Street.<\/p>\n

Concrete curb extensions have been installed on Erie Street, at the intersections with Kingsbury, Hudson, and Sedgwick Streets. Curb extensions narrow the roadway and help slow vehicular traffic, and bring stop signs closer to the\u00a0driver. Curb extensions also reduce the pedestrian crossing distance and improve visibility between drivers and pedestrians.<\/p>\n

For additional traffic calming, CDOT installed a speed hump and curb extensions mid-block on Erie Street between Kingsbury and Hudson, and another mid-block between Hudson and Sedgwick. Mid-block speed humps were installed on\u00a0Superior, between Larrabee and Orleans, and will be installed on Huron, between Larrabee and Orleans.
\nSpeed humps are self-enforcing traffic calming tools that reduce travel speeds as drivers are forced to slow down in order to traverse the humps. \u00a0The new speed humps will reduce overall vehicular and pedestrian crashes within this\u00a0corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, November 10, Alderman Reilly hosted a Tulip Bulb Planting Event in River North. \u00a0Thank you to all the RNRA volunteers who came out in the cold to plant, Peet’s Coffee and Tea for donating hot coffee and Alderman Reilly who personally purchased the tulip bulbs which will blossom into beautiful purple, yellow and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}