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Local: Alta Road closure tomorrow

(Press release from Peoria City Hall)
The City of Peoria has hired a contractor to mill and pave Alta Road from Allen Road to Trails Edge. The contractor is scheduled to do the milling on Thursday afternoon, 9/18/2008. There will be short delays while the milling is being completed. The contractor plans to [...]

September 17, 2008 in Local
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Local: Today’s news links

Links via the Peoria Journal Star:

Here’s some discussion of traffic along West Main Street in the West Bluff. Hopefully, all these traffic studies will provide details that will replace all the anecdotal evidence that the street needs to be narrowed. I’m 45 years old and I can’t recall a time when West Main wasn’t congested. [...]

September 7, 2008 in Local
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Local: City finds a new way to screw up West Bluff traffic patterns

(press release)
Road construction is scheduled to start on Monday, September 8, 2008, at the intersection of Moss Avenue and University Street/MacArthur Highway in the City of Peoria. Driving lanes will be reduced to one lane in each direction while work is being performed for the reinstallation of traffic signals and concrete replacement work at [...]

September 5, 2008 in Local
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Local: Delivery drivers don’t obey traffic rules in Peoria

This sort of thing has always ticked me off.
I was getting gasoline at the neighborhood station the other day, and before I started pumping, I noticed this:

Thirty seconds later, I snapped this picture:

Look at the traffic lights in both photos. They are green. So why didn’t the driver proceed through the intersection? Because he wasn’t [...]

August 21, 2008 in Local
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Local: Another road closure

(press release)
The outside lanes of both northbound and southbound Sterling Avenue will be closed between Forrest Hill Avenue and Gilbert Avenue for approximately one week starting Monday, August 18th.  Illinois American Water Company will be working on their utility services.  Please take an alternate route to avoid any delays.

August 15, 2008 in Uncategorized
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