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Kendall County looks to improve safety, traffic flow along Ridge Road at Caton Farm · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kendall County looks to improve safety traffic flow along Ridge
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  Speaker 1: Road at Catton Farm Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. With the two lane Ridge Road seeing fifteen
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  Speaker 1: five hundred vehicles a day, Kendall County Highway Department officials
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  Speaker 1: say the road already needs improvements to keep up with
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  Speaker 1: the amount of traffic that is only expected to get
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  Speaker 1: worse by twenty fifty, when the road is expected to
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  Speaker 1: see twenty six eight hundred vehicles per day. There are
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  Speaker 1: approximately thirty eight accidents per year on Ridge Road in
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  Speaker 1: the approximately five mile stretch from Catton Farm Road to
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  Speaker 1: Plainfield Road. The Highway Department said Shorewood based Hutchison Engineering, Inc.
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  Speaker 1: Has begun a study looking at ways to improve capacity
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  Speaker 1: and abate safety concerns. As part of the study, the
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  Speaker 1: first public information meeting was held on May twentieth at
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  Speaker 1: Plainfield South High School, which is at the intersection of
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  Speaker 1: Ridge Road and Catton Farm Road. Last year, the Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Board approved a preliminary engineering agreement with Hutchison Engineering
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  Speaker 1: for the project. Resident Elisa Terrazas, who lives in deer
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  Speaker 1: crossing subdivision along Ridge Road. Voiced concerns about the road
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  Speaker 1: being widened. My backyard border's Ridge Road, she said, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm very unhappy about the street widening because i don't
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  Speaker 1: want it any closer to me. Terrazaz moved to the
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  Speaker 1: area two years ago. In that time, she has seen
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  Speaker 1: more people speeding and more accidents on the road. It's
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  Speaker 1: really very dangerous. She said. They need to put some
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  Speaker 1: stop lights from Catton Farm Road to one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventh Street or something. Joseph Wick, Junior of Hutchison Engineering,
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  Speaker 1: said the purpose of the meeting was to gather public
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  Speaker 1: input for the study. We're just starting to look at
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  Speaker 1: the corridor and soliciting local input on issues and what
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  Speaker 1: problems may be occurring within the corridor and what they
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  Speaker 1: would like to see in the corridor and beginning that
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  Speaker 1: process to work towards a design. He said, There's been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of growth around here and more to come.
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  Speaker 1: The next public meeting on the project is set for
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  Speaker 1: early to mid twenty twenty seven. Francis Class, county engineer
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  Speaker 1: for the Kendall County Highway Department, said the county wants
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  Speaker 1: to create awareness. We want to make people aware that
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  Speaker 1: we're studying the corridor, that we need to increase capacity
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  Speaker 1: and safety. He said, we've had some issues with crashes.
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  Speaker 1: There are also plans to expand Ridge Road from Holt
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  Speaker 1: Road to Black Road. The project would increase that stretch
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  Speaker 1: of Ridge Road from two lanes to four lanes.