If Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen gets his way, Kane County residents may be asked whether the county should proceed with long-planned improvement of transportation on the county’s north end. Lauzen told County Board members Wednesday he would be reluctant to support further work on the proposed Longmeadow Parkway project without a demonstration of public support for the large, regional road project. Lauzen spoke at a meeting of the Kane County Board’s Transportation Committee.
The project to build about five miles of new road in the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills-Carpentersville area from Huntley Road to Route 62, focused on a toll bridge over the Fox River, has been in the works for about two decades.
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Barrington Hills residents should do their homework on this one. The Great Village Protector, while running for Congress (lost 65% to his 35%) was a big supporter of this. He was cozying up to all the voters on the west side of the River. Not one person from the Village was on the Longmeadow Parkway Committee, not even Trustee Ramesh! The Parkway would involve the taking of property from Village residents, and would empty out on 62 just west of Village Hall. Abboud would toss the Village away in a New York minute for a bigger office, How about we just throw him out of his current office without further damage to the Village come election time in April!
Won’t the added congestion, noise and pollution bother the horses?
They could save even more money if they had the eastern terminus at rt 25 instead of trying to connect it at rt 62 on the curve. I understand the County wants to build a Recreation Center in the woods east of rt 25 and the Parkway is a convenient access point in this area. I say redesign with no access to rt 62.