Evanston residents are raising concerns about Northwestern University’s Ryan Field transportation assessment as presented to Councilmember Eleanor Revelle’s working group.
“ inadequate Northwestern’s transportation assessment is. It’s only seven pages, compared to other assessments that have been completed for the city being more than 40 pages,” Most Livable City Association member Fiona Martin McCarthy said. “It comes off as a flimsy effort on Northwestern’s part to potentially complete a traffic assessment without doing their due diligence to provide adequate data.
Northwestern University’s Executive Director of Neighborhood and Community Relations Dave Davis said the university is committed to transparency and more details from the traffic study will be available when the university submits a planned development application to the city. Northwestern’s transportation assessment was prepared by development planning and design consulting firm Kimley-Horn and Associates and the school’s traffic study was prepared by transportation planning and engineering firm Kenig, Lindgren, O’Hara, Aboona, Inc.
Williams and Most Livable City Association Co-Founder David DeCarlo say outside traffic going to Ryan Field will likely impact Evanston in its entirety. DeCarlo said since Evanston isn’t right off the highway, traffic will bleed onto local streets. The transportation assessment suggested having shuttles going to Ryan Field from downtown and Northwestern’s main campus to help alleviate traffic, but Williams said that would negatively impact other neighborhoods.
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