Milwaukee Avenue Infrastructure Improvements, Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT)-with CTE, Inc.

Regina Webster & Associates has been retained by Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers, Inc., to perform traffic engineering for the improvement of Milwaukee Avenue from Kilpatrick Avenue to Montrose Avenue in Chicago, The project area includes the six-cornered intersection at Irving Park Road, Milwaukee Avenue, and Cicero Avenue. The scope of the project includes traffic signal network timing optimization and the preparation of pavement marking, signing, and traffic sign plans. Three network timing plans will be proposed for the design area – Peak AM, Peak PM, and all other times – which will consider the capabilities of signal controllers to be modernized along Milwaukee Avenue. RWA will develop plans, specifications, and estimates for the signalized intersections upon approval of both the traffic signal requirements and the signal timing plans. A total of four signal plans will be developed. Two of the traffic signal designs will be modernizations, building a new traffic signal around the existing traffic signal, including the six-cornered intersection at Irving Park Road, Milwaukee Avenue, and Cicero Avenue. The other two traffic signals are new installations with Milwaukee Avenue at Kilpatrick Avenue requiring re-alignment of the intersection geometry to accommodate the signal installation.