Fix the side streets, too, please

While many busy highways like Route 20 receive attention for crucial adjustment, some other roads have yet to see any type of repair. Although repairing or altering roads, such as highways, is very important for people who have to commute to reach their destinations, there should be more focus on fixing less significant streets that haven't seen kinder days these past few years.

It's understandable that it's imperative for more bustling roads like Randall or highways to have more prevalence in restoration due to higher quantities of people using them while driving.

That being said, though, there should be at least some signs of reconstruction on lesser known roads like South Water Road in Elgin that have bared potholes and other deteriorations for years, which, to this day, still hasn't been reformed whatsoever.

Some smaller, out-of-the-way roads are still being used today, and people who drive go and try to avoid annoyances on them that should have been taken care of by now. Mending restless streets and lanes is critical for drivers and all, but minor roads that have long since fallen into disrepair deserve some form of concentration of being restored also.

Austin Kenny Samountry

Elgin