The N’West Iowa Review reported this past weekend that Sioux Center’s Main Street expansion is still a possibility: City leaders unveiled its [sic] newest five-year capital improvement plan to the Sioux Center City Council on Oct. 10. One of the items on the plan was the controversial road expansion. Later in the article city manager […]
WITH YOUR SUPPORT, WE DID IT! From KTIV: A highway widening project in Sioux Center, Iowa is officially off the table. The Iowa Department of Transportation Commission met Tuesday, and pulled the $3.4 million dollars set aside in fiscal year 2015 to widen Highway 75 through Sioux Center. That money will be put into another […]
This morning, representatives of Sioux Center Citizens For Responsible Growth asked a panel of Iowa Department of Transportation Commissioners to withdraw the DOT’s share of funding for a $6.7 million Highway 75 expansion through the heart of Sioux Center. The expansion was funded in the DOT’s 2013-2017 plan. The CRG traveled to attend the public […]
The Sioux City Journal has covered the story of how “more than 400″ Sioux Center residents mobilized to halt the Main Ave. expansion, albeit temporarily. People now know that their voice does matter. Within the first two days, we had over 400 petitions returned to us.” –Rachel Hoogeveen, chair of Citizens for Responsible Growth The SCJ […]
Here is the flier we prepared and handed out at tonight’s public meeting. Unfortunately, the city did not take any comments from the approximately 400 citizens in attendance who showed up to make their voices heard. Nevertheless YOUR PRESENCE was a strong statement! THANK YOU! It is inspiring to see democracy in action. At the […]
This press release went out last night/this morning: “Sioux Center citizen group takes to the streets to stop Main street expansion.” Feel free to redistribute.
This letter from Sioux Center resident and parking design expert Warren Vander Helm appeared in the Sioux Center News on March 20. What is the first thing an infant wants to do, and the last thing an older person wants to give up? It’s to walk. Renee Wielenga, in her February 20 “From the News […]
The Portland, Oregon Metro Regional Government issued a Safety Report in 2012 showing that 5 lane arterial streets have an injury crash rate 10 times higher than 3 lane arterials, and the fatal or incapacitating injury rate is 6 times higher with 5 lanes. (See page 30 of the report.) Streets with more lanes have an […]
In the same DOT study showing the success and popularity of Sioux Center’s reduction to 3 lanes on Main Street, there were also case studies showing the negative results of expanding from 2 to 4 lanes. When Fort Madison, IA made such an expansion their accident injury rate went up 88%! Their estimated total value loss […]
When Main Street was expanded to 4 lanes, people got killed. When it returned to 3 lanes, injuries fell back to ZERO. When Sioux Center expanded Main Street to 4 lanes in the past, it was a safety disaster, averaging about one fatality a year over a ten year period. The street was reduced to […]
