A consultants’ study of Cedar Road should have more broadly examined traffic flow on New Lenox’s main north-south thoroughfare, village officials said recently.
Trustee Dave Batson said one intersection–Cedar Road and U.S. Highway 30–received the majority of attention. Batson said he agreed that intersection needed attention, but the study was supposed to examine the entire corridor extending from U.S. Highway 6 to Laraway Road.
The study by Metro Transportation Group should have focused on “what needs to be done to improve the flow over all,” Batson said. “(The consultant) has dumped it all on us.”
Trustee Dave Smith agreed the study needed more work and all Cedar Road intersections should have been examined.
Batson said another meeting between the consultant and village officials needs to be arranged.
In other business, trustees also voted recently to extend the village’s contract with Nu-Way Disposal through Oct. 1. The contract expires at the end of this month. Village Administrator Russ Loebe said the extension would allow service to continue while a new contract, which may include additional services such as leaf pickup, is negotiated.
