Residents implore Park Ridge to add traffic calming at Francis Parkway intersection

Residents from Francis Parkway and nearby blocks used the public-comment period to press the City Council for traffic-calming measures at the intersection of Francis Parkway and Grace/Granville. Tracy Macker (S6) told the council she has "made the decision to not have my daughter take that bus" because children wait at a corner with no stop sign or yield device. Elizabeth Brogan (S8) said Waze routing has increased cut-through traffic and warned, "We are waiting for someone to die." A longtime neighbor (S12) described decades of crashes and questioned why the city's traffic surveys rely on averages that mask peak speeds.