The proposal to widen and straighten Briarwood Ln. and construct a new bridge at enormous taxpayer expense, and remove numerous century old trees is absolutely insane. The whole project seems very secretive, and the swift nature in attempting to ramrod this thing through is very suspect. It reeks of politics and favoritism to select contractors. This proposal has not been born out of safety concerns or accidents, so I have to ask where did it come from? Where is reason in this, and why isn't the voice of the people being heard?
Dr. Philip Frystak said:
The proposal to widen and straighten Briarwood Ln. and construct a new bridge at enormous taxpayer expense, and remove numerous century old trees is absolutely insane. The whole project seems very secretive, and the swift nature in attempting to ramrod this thing through is very suspect. It reeks of politics and favoritism to select contractors. This proposal has not been born out of safety concerns or accidents, so I have to ask where did it come from? Where is reason in this, and why isn't the voice of the people being heard?
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Dan Chapman
6/19/2012 12:54:48 pm
I just returned from the Briarwood Bridge meeting. A resident brought up the question whether the Briarwood plan was tied to the Meacham Road expansion plan. Further investigation is needed. The Meacham Rd. expansion plan calls for Meacham to be expanded to 6 lanes from Higgins to Algonquin and 5 lanes from Algonquin to Emerson in Palatine. It makes sense that these plans would call for overflow traffic to be diverted through Briarwood. This would increase traffic exponentially on Briarwood thus the need to now reconfigure and widen the road. This plan has been in the works for many years and we are just hearing about this in the final phase of the plan. If you are a resident of PGE and want to preserve our community please get involved.
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