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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Ilana Arougheti

Chicago wants to make left turns safer using ‘traffic calming’ speed bumps, bollards

A pedestrian crosses the street at Ashland and Sunnyside avenues in Uptown, where the city has added bollards and speed bumps to the intersection to slow down left-turning drivers. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Between 2017 and 2021, 40% of Chicago traffic accidents in which pedestrians were seriously injured or killed involved motorists making a left turn.

That’s why the city says it has been taking steps to make those turns safer.

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