In the Joliet area, warehouses have mushroomed far beyond initial plans, and railroads are in the process of nearly doubling their intermodal capacity, mayor says.
A truck waits in a turn lane in heavy traffic near 41st Street and Pulaski Road in the Archer Heights neighborhood, March 28, 2024. Outside Mario Aguirre’s office in Chicago’s Archer Heights neighborhood, traffic is so bad that people hit a tree, mailbox, light pole, brick wall, vehicle or pedestrian about once a week.
“We need to look out 20 years when we’ll have double the amount of truck traffic we have now and make sure we’re doing what’s right,” he said. Trucks and buses comprised 11% of the 48,569 vehicles that passed through the intersection that day. The traffic included 129 pedestrians and 17 brave souls on bicycles.
Cyatharine Alias of CNT also produced a cumulative impact map showing health risks not just in the city but also in big suburban freight hubs such as Bensenville, Harvey and Joliet. LVEJO and CNT found, for example, that 37 tractor-trailers drove on Kostner Avenue north of 31st Street on May 16, even though the city has declared this Little Village area a truck-free zone to protect students at Zapata Elementary Academy.
He said this will add 500,000 truck trips a year to the city’s roads. But the railroads don’t need a local permit since they’re regulated at the federal level. NorthPoint Development, a Kansas City firm, built three warehouses that remain unused, southeast of downtown Joliet, March 14, 2024. NorthPoint has proposed to build 33 warehouses in total, with the existing three tied up in lawsuits.
An ExxonMobil tar sands refinery and a BNSF intermodal rail yard both lie on the outskirts of Elwood where prevailing westerly winds blow straight into town. According to the American Transportation Research Institute, the whole stretch of I-55 from Harlem Avenue to Western Avenue ranks as thein global rankings for the amount of time people lose every year to congestion, according to INRIX, a traffic analysis firm based near Seattle.released in December, the Illinois Department of Transportation said freight and freight-related industries comprise nearly 40% of the state’s economy.
That became clear last month when Little Village Democratic Rep. Edgar Gonzalez and two other representatives tried to schedule a hearingfor battery and hydrogen-powered truck sales, up to 40% for big tractor-trailers and 75% for medium-size delivery trucks by 2035.The Gonzalez bill, if passed, would mark the first time Illinois has set tailpipe pollution limits tougher than the federal government’s. California has been doing so for half a century.
The oldest of the trucks was built in 1991, and Beutel knows all four like the back of his hand. His first-hand knowledge of electric trucks doesn’t come close.Beutel said at age 65, he’s hoping to never buy another truck. He can’t afford an electric truck anyway. By 2030, according to BloombergNEF, a battery-powered short-haul tractor-trailer truck will not only cost less to buy than its diesel counterpart, but also enjoy lower maintenance and fuel costs over the course of its lifetime.
“I’m afraid to cross the street,” Noe Villagomez, who lives near Pulaski and 45th, told attendees. “I’m ready to sell my house.” The same thing happens on the north side of the freeway, at Pulaski and 36th Street, just outside a Target warehouse. During the day’s peak, a truck passes every 10.7 seconds, according to LVEJO and CNT data.The same thing happens on the east side of the BNSF intermodal, at 40th Street and Kedzie, where a truck passes every 15.5 seconds during the peak hour.
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