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Committee backs speed hump for one block of Edwards north of I-44
Summary
The Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee recommended approval of Board Bill 32 to install a speed hump on a single block of Edwards Street north of Interstate 44 after the bill’s sponsor said residents petitioned for the change and cited heavy commercial truck traffic.
Alderman Devote asked the Public Infrastructure and Utilities Committee on June 18 to give a favorable review to Board Bill 32 to install a speed hump on one block of Edwards Street north of Interstate 44.
The bill’s sponsor, Alderman Devote, said the stretch is a major north–south thoroughfare that has “a fair amount of commercial traffic,” that the block contains one business and that petitioning residents supported the request with “100% participation.”
Committee members asked whether the location was in Devote’s ward and raised no objections to the proposal. Chair Browning accepted a motion for a do-pass recommendation; the motion was moved and seconded and carried without recorded objection.
Discussion in the committee was limited to the need to slow traffic on that block and confirmation that the petition was ward‑based; no technical traffic study, installation timing, or cost details were provided in the committee record.
The committee’s endorsement is a recommendation to the full Board of Aldermen; the transcript does not show final Board action on the measure.
Clarifying details noted in the meeting record: the block is north of Interstate 44, contains one business, and the sponsor said residents completed a petition with full participation.
