Posted on 01/09/2009 7:54:27 AM PST by Museum Twenty
REFERENDUM ON THE EXTENSION OF ROUTE 53 TO BE CONSIDERED
For years, a lack of local consensus has been cited as a main reason the proposed Route 53 extension into Lake County has not moved forward.
Lake County Board Commissioner David Stolman of Buffalo Grove is leading an effort by Lake County officials to attempt to resolve that situation on April 7th. The County is considering placing an advisory Referendum on whether Route 53 should be extended as a tollway from Lake Cook Road north into Lake County and then east to the Tri-State Tollway on the April 7, 2009 consolidated election ballot.
A draft Resolution to authorize the Referendum will be presented to the County Board's Public Works and Transportation Committee for approval at its meeting on Wednesday, January 14th at 10:00 AM, in the Assembly Room on the 10th Floor of the Lake County Courthouse and Administrative Complex in Waukegan. If the Resolution is approved in Committee, it would then be presented to the full County Board at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 20th at 9:00 AM at the same location.
Commissioner Stolman is encouraging interested members of the public to attend both the Committee meeting next Wednesday and the County Board meeting on January 20th, to voice support for adoption of the Resolution. "The whole purpose is to let the voters decide," he said. "We have been asked so many times to produce a consensus."
It would certainly relieve some of the congestion on Hwy. 12, which is a mess most weekday evenings.
Think of it as reducing auto emissions and gasoline usage.
If you lengthen 53 and connect it to 294 North (as has been proposed) you will eliminate the stop signs and stop lights that CREATE GLOBAL WARNING!!! You will also put America on the next step towards TOTAL ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!!!
That’s Hope and Change I can believe in.
I thought this was about M-53 in Michigan. It was supposed to be extended to I-69 as an expressway. Presently, it is about useless as a limited access during rush hours, due to backups at stoplights.
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