The subject of road improvements to Haegers Bend Rd and the potential for a bicycle plan in return for significant outside funding for the project will finally circle back to the originators of the idea back in 2012 – Robert Kosin, Village Administrator, Dan Strahan, Village Engineer and Trustee Patty Meroni – on July 16 in the form of a public hearing. According to the Village Google calendar:
“The Village of Barrington Hills will hold a Public Hearing concerning the proposed improvement of Haeger’s Bend Road from County Line Road to Algonquin/River Road. The public hearing will be held at the Village Hall, 112 Algonquin Road, Barrington Hills, IL 60010 on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 6:00 PM. All persons interested in this project are invited to attend this meeting. The meeting room is accessible to persons with a disability.”
To download the full meeting description, click here or view it via the Google calendar here.
So this was/is the brainchild of Meroni and her accomplices – Strahan and Kosin? Isn’t she the darling of the riding club? Guess they didn’t get the memo that she had sold them out…………more than once. When will the riding club wake up to the fact that they are just pawns being used by the former administration?
“Proposed Improvement” presupposes that an engineering plan has already been done. To my knowledge, the Village Board never voted on this course of action or authorized expenditure of taxpayer funds to Gewalt-Hamilton to prepare engineering plans.
Is Trustee Meroni part of that secret “political party” who is trying to “suburbanize” BH recently blogged by the former Village President? Trustee Meroni has successfully transitioned from mishandling the Long Meadow Parkway matter to creating a new crisis for BH residents, commencement of a bicycle trail system.
Why do I notice a trend towards suburbanization more and more in Barrington Hills? Unfortunately many of my neighbors won’t notice until they travel the new 4 lane roads with stop lights past the bike trails, new forest preserve parking lots, and the Pace busses. And then much of the character will already be gone. Why does the village board not stay true to its heritage and use that heritage as a compass for decisions? Instead they give equal value to everything that is not representative of the character of the village.
Not since Duda have the residents on the far NW corner of the village faced an important issue like the possible incorporation of bike paths/lanes. It is time to tell the administrators, and unnamed stakeholders in this matter, that we are reclaiming our community and to stop selling us out to the highest bidder! It’s time to become fiscally responsible and stop wasting our tax dollars so we can pave our roads without bribery and seductive infrastructure plans.
PLEASE COME OUT IN LARGE NUMBERS, AND SAY NO TO BIKES ON JULY 16TH at the VILLAGE HALL.
There will be no bike lanes. This is nothing but a timed diversion away from something much more important to every resident in the village – virtually unrestricted horse boarding which will be discussed at a public hearing on July 21 by the ZBA. Again, no bike lanes, just obfuscation by Team Abboud, aka Save 5 Acres.
As strong as I feel about the bike lanes, there is a lot of truth to Kilroy’s comments. Yes, commercial horse boarding is higher on the agenda of the select few and their backers.
Kilroy is very very smart
Turn down the money .
Bike path not benefitting VBH.
Not worth road widening and tree removal for convenience of nonresidents and inconvenience of Residents.
A few years experience with “single file” proves bicyclists do not, They are rude to pedestrians (residents) ride on private roads (trespassing) and a general nuisance.
This additional expense -lost revenue is worth the cost. We know the former village president and BOTS wasted several hundred thousand dollars on unnecessary expenses.
Jim O’Donnell- not the former Plan Cimmissioner