Opinion

Great job on Bull Valley road repairs

Posted September 04, 2013 4:13 am

Fleming Road looks terrific. It is a pleasure to drive on the smooth pavement, and the roadside environment is still soothing and beautiful. The collaboration between the McHenry County Division of Transportation and TranSystems Corporation and Curran Contracting Company is one for awards and professional journals — both highway engineering and environmental.

We were pleased that the final design left the road in its current footprint and profile, included The Safety Edge, did not interfere with the Class III Watershed, and during construction the road was closed rather than used a temporary road that would have resulted in certain destruction of many old trees.

We appreciated the informative pre-construction meeting and the card with the contact information for MCDOT and TranSystems. Now that the repair is finished, the fact that there is no evidence that anything even happened along the road gives testimony to the competent and careful manner in which everyone worked on the repair.

Thanks also to the members of the Transportation Committee and the County Board who adopted the Context Sensitive Design process.

The design and repair of Fleming Road indicate that McHenry County is at the forefront of building safe roads that ELIMINATE any adverse impact on the environment.

Mary Moltmann

Ed Bennett

Bull Valley

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