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Resident urges lower speed limit and secure school access; engineer says county approval required
Summary
A Fairview Park resident asked council to lower the speed limit on neighborhood streets and to authorize a sturdier school-lot gate; the city engineer said a county road designation requires county approval for speed changes.
Dean Chubisky, a Fairview Park resident, told council on March 3 that semi trucks and large buses have been traveling through his neighborhood well above posted speeds and asked whether the city can reduce the speed limit on West 200 and Tenth Street to 25 mph. "So what I'm trying to do ... is there any way we can get West 200 And Tenth Street down to 25 miles an hour?" Chubisky asked during the public-comment period.
Chubisky said drivers are using residential streets as through routes and that he is concerned someone will be…
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