Transportation: June 2007 Archives

By Ted Slowik

Several residents of the High Meadows subdivision in south Naperville are irate that the city plans to extend Book Road south of 111th Street, virtually through their back yards. The city says it's been planning this along.

By Ted Slowik

Who's to say why a Naperville woman on Thursday failed to see the big fire truck with the flashing lights are loud siren? Who's to say why she was failed by the wonderful technology that turns lights green for oncoming emergency vehicles and thus red for the cross traffic? Somehow, she collided with a Naperville fire engine on Route 59 and Liberty Street, and it's a sign that drivers aren't paying enough attention to what they're doing.

Naperville is home to the highest gas prices in the state, according to the Web site illinoisgasprices.com. We're paying 80 cents more per gallon here than they're paying in Peoria, 150 miles away.