CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- City transportation officials are winning praise for their work making Chicago's streets safer for all, but they say they have a lot more to do.
Tom Carney, the new Commissioner of Chicago's Department of Transportation, updated a City Council Committee on the Complete Streets Guidelines they are using to enhance safety for pedestrians, motorists and cyclists alike.
There's much progress, but he said he wants to see more. For example, the sidewalk cutouts to make corners better for the disabled and others.
"The biggest part of it is to try to get us to be 100% ADA ramp citywide. We're past the halfway point for sure, but we still have locations throughout the city that never had ADA ramps installed
44th Ward Alderman Bennett Lawson wanted to discuss Loading Zones.
"When it comes to bike lanes- when it comes to pedestrian and traffic safety, it's often a car parked that's unloading in a crosswalk in sight lines, in the bike lane, on top of a bike lane," he explained.
"I would challenge us to have a more universal approach when it comes to loading. Frankly, I don't know that we need to be super large semis in our city at all."
Alderman Daniel La Spata, the committee chair said the work already done around Chicago is touching everyone.
"This morning when my daughter and I were crossing Campbell to get to the bus, that is a safer intersection because of what your team did last year."
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