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Article: Howard St. to get paved parking, curbs
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- Skokie Review (IL)
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- August 15, 2002
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STAFF WRITER
Howard Street between Niles Center Road and Crawford Avenue will get paved parking, curbs, modernized traffic signals and bicycle lanes under an $8.3 million renovation Skokie unveiled to area neighbors Monday.
The village plan does not call for widening the right-of-way along Howard, which will remain one lane in each direction. Planned paved parking spaces, curbs and bike lanes will replace existing gravel shoulders used for parking.
The plan calls for installing left-turn lanes from Howard onto Kostner and Crawford avenues, and raising the speed limit west of Skokie Boulevard to 30 miles per hour. That's the present speed limit east of there.
It also calls for new storm ...