Images that paint the pending Longmeadow Parkway as a place where hoards of blaring trucks whip down an I-90 clone and run down schoolchildren on the way to school are dangerously out of touch with both facts and reality, according to state and local officials promoting the plan.
State Sen. Karen McConnaughay, state Rep. Mike Tryon and Algonquin Village President John Schmitt told the Daily Herald editorial board Thursday that misinformation by detractors of the $135 million project is forcing officials like them to set the record straight. Doing so, they said, is really just a matter of recounting 30 years of intense study showing the new Fox River crossing is both needed and will be successful.
Read the full Daily Herald article here.
Accompanying the article is a brief video interview of the panel of politicians in which Representative Mike Tryon stated at one time “Barrington Hills had been, ah, viciously opposing a northern bypass with right-of-way that had already been preserved by the Village of Algonquin” as he explained his support of the Longmeadow Parkway project.
According to a June, 2013 article published in the First Electric Newspaper, the “Northern Bypass” plan is not dead.
That article states, “The Chairman of the McHenry County Board Transportation Committee said Sunday the idea of an Algonquin Northern Bypass never died. It’s just been sleeping. Meanwhile the Vice Chairman of the Kane County Transportation Committee told FEN she hoped Friday’s reminder it was hibernating wouldn’t affect planning for a bridge at Longmeadow Parkway.”
Read more from the “Northern Bypass Not Dead, Just Hibernating Say Transpo Experts” article here.
It all makes sense. Property owners are called upon to pay ever increasing real estate taxes while politicians (both nationally and locally) continue to find ways of decreasing residential real estate values and quality of life.
Just one more reason why it may be time for my family to cut our losses and leave VBH or for that matter the State of Illinois.
The chorus seems to be growing numbers and volume these past few years. “I come from Illinoisee with a banjo on my knee….”
Dave,
Sad to say but I agree with your premiss that we need to relocate to a friendlier tax location.
I recently purchased a home on an island in north Florida and sadly (mixed emotions) will be relocating there on a permanat basis.
Weather there is perfect and the people are warm and welcoming. Sure I will miss horse town USA but the past administration has destroyed what has been home to my family for decades!
There must be a speical place in hell for those politicians that have destroyed a bucolic, earthy and safe way of life!