Business owners, residents worry over falling rusty light poles

CHICAGO (CBS) — We have figured out of two additional light-weight poles that have toppled about in a windy 48 hours across the metropolis.

Bringing the grand total to at least 5 and bringing taxpayers to their wits’ close.

CBS2’s Tim McNicholas reported from Sheffield and Armitage with what happened.

“This was on the ground.”

Amy Helgren suggests she assumed she’d listened to a vehicle incident Thursday afternoon. She stepped outside and observed this outside her children’s outfits retailer on this fast paced part of Armitage.

“We just appeared at each and every other like, thank goodness that it fell that way, and no person was on the sidewalk walking, could have been a ton worse,” Helgren stated.  

Just a couple of blocks absent at Armitage and Halsted, a pole crashed down on to a vehicle early yesterday morning. And we’ve found at least 3 other fallen poles in Chicago considering the fact that Wednesday.

Luckily, no just one was damage.

“It under no circumstances would have occurred to me, going for walks down the road, that I would have to stress about a gentle pole falling on a human being.”  

A neighboring business enterprise owner says he’s fearful about the have on and tear on this pole just toes absent. And he’s not the only a single with his eye on poles that haven’t fallen yet.

Cicero Chimbanda is a jogger who’s worried about these rusty poles amongst the 100 and 300 blocks of South Lake Shore Push.

“You will not wanna have anything at all, specifically with the wind. It is a windy city so you wanna make guaranteed factors are secure,” he stated.

And he’s not the only a single whose discovered.

The city’s possess details from an audit done a handful of years in the past exhibits considerations about at minimum 8 light-weight poles on the 300 block of South Lake Shore — nonetheless there are even now rusty poles in the location.

We termed the office environment of Alderman Brendan Reilly and an help told us they requested the Office of Transportation again in February to inspect and replace rusty poles throughout the ward.

They are even now waiting on an update.

“I search at this and I say, which is just a issue of time,” Chimbanda claimed.  

Again on Armitage, enterprise proprietors would like the town to test on these mild poles as well.

We have attained out to the Division of Transportation Friday to question about the fallen pole and the kinds on Lake Shore Push — but we have not heard again.