SIX CORNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ... - The Lakota Group

EXISTING CONDITIONS
Figure 27: PERMIT PARKING SURVEY RESULTS; DAKIN AND BYRON STREETS; MARCH 3, 2012
Six Corners intersection accommodates over
70,000 vehicles per day, with vehicular counts for
each arterial as follows.
• Cicero Avenue (IL 50) is a Principal
Arterial that provides two travel lanes in
each direction with a center turn lane
and parking on both sides of the street
in most areas. Cicero Avenue carries
over 29,000 vehicles per day through the
Study Area.
• Irving Park Road (IL 19) is another
Principal Arterial that provides two travel
lanes in each direction and parking on
both sides in most locations. Irving Park
Road carries about 28,000 vehicles per
day, similar in volume to Cicero Avenue.
• Milwaukee Avenue is an Urban Collector
and provides one travel lane in each
direction and parking on both sides. It
carries 10,800-14,800 vehicles per day.
• Other streets in the Study Area are
residential or minor collectors, many of
them one-way with parking.
Figure 29 on page 51 identifies key traffic issues
and information in the Study Area, which are
described below.
• The recent CDOT Streetscape project
included several traffic and intersection
improvements such as:
New right-turn lane on southbound
Cicero
A reconfigured Milwaukee/
Kilpatrick/Byron intersection with a
new traffic signal
SIX CORNERS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN 47