Opinion

Make Lake County residents fund road

Posted April 20, 2012 5:00 am

After reading the Our View column in April 12 Daily Herald, I am upset at some of the proposals for paying for the extension of Route 53 in Lake County. Why do the people of Lake County feel this should not be a toll road? They suggest that there should be a toll imposed on Route 53 in Cook County or that the tolls should be increased on the entire tollway system. This extension is for Lake County, and the people who use it should pay for it just like they are proposing to do if they build the new Illiana road in the South suburbs from I-55 to I-65. Don’t take highways that are now free and hand them over to the tollway authority.

Also, they are calling it a parkway with a 45 mph speed limit. What is that all about? If Lake County officials don’t want to make the new extension a tollway and let the drivers who use it pay for it, maybe it shouldn’t be built and it should not be talked about anymore.

Let the drivers who use it pay for it, or forget about it and move on.

Joe Clark

Palatine

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