Planning Meetings for Lake Shore Drive Redesign
 | | Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2013 |
The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) and Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) recently released information on the beginning of a planning process named "Refine the Drive" to redesign the northern portion of Lake Shore Drive from Hollywood Avenue to Grand Avenue.
Public meetings will be held this week to identify stakeholder groups and garner input from the community to solve issues such as safety, better lakefront access, additional lakefront trails, new underpasses, tunnels, bridges and more.
Bold ideas such as expanding the shoreline and park south of North Avenue Beach to Ohio Street, and softening the Drive's Oak Street curve are also being considered. The planning portion of the project is expected to take three years.
We encourage everyone to attend one of the CDOT/IDOT meetings: - Tuesday, August 6 - Gill Park, 825 W. Sheridan Road, 3rd floor meeting room - 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Wednesday, August 7 - Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson Ave., in the atrium - 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- Thursday, August 8 - Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, in the South Gallery - 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
To learn more about the Refine the Drive project, please visit the CDOT/IDOT project website at www.northlakeshoredrive.org To sign up to receive the project's e-newsletters, send an email to: info@northlakeshoredrive.org
As a stakeholder organization and a member of the project's Environmental Task Force, the Lincoln Park Conservancy will also provide its members with regular updates on the project.
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