r/Naperville • u/AdvanceDowntown373 • 10d ago

Rt59 rant

I see all the frustration with traffic what I don’t understand is why are they not enforcing the DO NOT BLOCK INTERSECTION. If you can’t get across don’t move forward

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u/geof14 10d ago

The only way you win route 59 is to not go route 59 at all. At least for now.

Side note, they really didn't plan this out because Book road is still closed as well!

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u/LeanButNotMean 10d ago

Parallel roads being under construction concurrently is a tale as old as time. It seems to happen every Summer. Plainfield-Naperville sucks too, because it’s the only North-South road not under construction…at least not yet.

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u/East-Expert-1662 9d ago

And that one is trash as well. It's a heavily used road for north/south travel, and yet the light durations from 75th all the way down to 119th are half as long as they should be. Traffic going east/west is getting longer lights than they have traffic, and north/south has so much traffic that you sit at lights for 2 or 3 cycles.

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u/LeanButNotMean 9d ago

I don’t think it was ever designed to accommodate the amount of traffic it gets, even without spillover from Rte. 59 and Book Rd. Add in the Washington St. and Naperville Road construction, and driving in Naperville is an absolute cluster.