Roundabout Scheduled for Route 176 Intersection with Mt. Tabor and Haligus Roads
The first state highway roundabout in McHenry County is being planned by the Illinois Department of Transportation where Mt. Tabor Road and Haligus Road join Route 176 in a dangerous, dangerous dogleg intersection.
What the roundabout on Route 14 at Mt. Tabor and Haligus Roads will look like. Click to enlarge.
Unlike the improvement at less badly aligned intersection of Briarwood Road and Route 176, wholly in Crystal Lake and initiated by Crystal Lake, the improvement farther west on the state route has been initiated by IDOT, apparently without local knowledge.
The entire highway improvement roundabout at Route 176 and Haligus and Mt. Tabor Roads can be seen here. Click to enlarge.
At least I would assume that Crystal Lake had no knowledge because when I filed a Freedom of Information request for “documents pertaining to efforts to improve the intersection of Mt. Thabor Road, Haligus Road and Route 176,” I received a response indicated that no such documents had been found.
Driving west on Route 176 toward the dogleg intersection of Halligus and Mt. Thabor Roads.
Likewise the Village of Lakewood had no knowledge until the most recent IDOT highway plan was released.
