The rumble strip, pinch points and speed table have not yet been installed. One of the letter’s signatories, Maryann Mason, told Wednesday Journal she and others do not trust that the approved traffic measures will be effective solutions. The village board is expected to discuss those options at its first September meeting as well. Staff was also directed to look into the feasibility of installing some sort of gate or barrier at the gas station’s east entrance off of Taylor Avenue for deliveries and to strengthen the existing village nuisance ordinance. “We are relying on the board to act on that date, as our sense of urgency is unabated,” the letter reads. It includes a list of 10 suggestions to alleviate traffic and safety concerns, among them is to not “lose sight of the unfathomable loss of an 18-year-old girl to her family and to this community.” The polite but firm letter, which calls for more aggressive action from the village, was drafted and submitted shortly after the village board’s sole August meeting, held on the first of the month. That letter appeared last week in the Journal’s Viewpoints section. “It is dismaying that we have had to push so hard to get the village to take any action at all to address the most violent gas station in Oak Park,” reads a letter to the village board signed by 66 residents. With recent incidents of violent crime, many residents immediate to the BP feel the village board is not moving quickly enough to address the situation. But problems at the station have existed much longer.
has been at the center of debate for the Village of Oak Park and neighbors alike.
Since the June murder of 18-year-old Jailyn Logan-Bledsoe, the 24-hour BP gas station at 100 Chicago Ave.
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