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Rock Island council denies crosswalk request on 17th Street after safety review; staff to study alternatives
Summary
The council voted to deny a resident-requested pedestrian crosswalk on the 1900 block of 17th Street, citing traffic-engineering concerns and proximity to an existing controlled crossing; council asked staff to evaluate alternatives such as no-parking zones, restriping and bump-outs.
The Rock Island City Council voted to deny a request to install a pedestrian crosswalk on the 1900 block of 17th Street, following a traffic-engineering recommendation and extended public comment.
Resident April Linenberger told the council the request followed a local pedestrian fatality and said the engineering study “contains no data about the intersections in question,” asking, “If the crosswalk were to…
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