Why work groups?

Quentin Road has many stakeholders with a lot of diverse needs. They all must be considered during planning, rebuilding, and maintaining the road. We have identified four large areas of topics that seem to cut across all stakeholder groups and seem to be a good first way of categorizing what the road needs to do for us. We are sponsoring work groups that drill deeper into each of the topics both here on the forum as well as during face-to-face meetings.

Work Group 1: Road safety

Nobody wants to get hurt on the road so that safety concerns have to be among the most pressing needs for all stakeholders. We can enumerate all the problems we have with the current road, and can look at reputable research and experience from similar road projects to anticipate the impact of possible rebuild scenarios.

Among many other details, this work group will focus on road safety aspects such as:

• Left turns into and out of the neighborhoods and the Forest Preserve
• Erratic and aggressive driving behavior and speeding induced by multiple driving lanes
• Significantly increased accident rates for roads with four travel lanes on no median/center lane
• Increased accident rates due to road geometry changes (switching back and forth between four and five lanes)
• Accidents with wild-life

Work Group 2: Traffic and capacity

Detail on WG2 ...

Work Group 3: Bike path and walk way

Detail on WG3 ...

Work Group 4: Deer Grove Forest Preserve

Detail on WG4 ...