Ideas to fix the Millburn Strangle

I hope that Lake County, or whoever designs the bypass for "The Millburn Strangler" uses their head and does not take the two lanes going north and south and have them squeeze down to one lane on the other end.

That design would only recreate the "Millburn Strangler" a littler farther down the road, as everyone jockeys to try and squeeze in front of the guy next to them.

The intersection of Route 45 at Grass Lake and Millburn Road is known locally as the "Millburn Strangler," because of the bottleneck of traffic that motorists have suffered for years.

The "I-have-to-get-one-car-ahead" idiots will be threatening to smash into someone to gain that one-car advancement. They will even drive on the shoulder to get ahead of you. Plus you have all of those semis hauling garbage to the Kenosha dump using Route 45, to get around the scales on Route 41 because they are probably overloaded, and that will add greatly to the congestion at the squeeze-down if you so design it that way.

Please make only one lane straight through and the other a left-turn lane to get onto Grass Lake Road. While you are at the design process, please, please, redesign the intersections you put together years ago that have the squeeze-down lanes on the other side of the intersections you designed that way.

I bet it will reduce accidents considerably, and it does not "not" increase traffic flow, it only makes the back up 50 feet away from where it would be anyway.

Kenneth Hellstern

Fox Lake