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Every once in a while I drive past McHenry County’s Park and Ride lot at the intersection of Route 31 and Virginia Street Road. There are never enough cars to justify its existence. But there was a bottle which might … Continue reading
Category Archives: Park & Ride
Every time I drive by McHenry County’s only Park and Ride lot at the intersection of Route 31 and Virginia Street Road, I wonder about its justification. Certainly there was government-owned land as the path of Virginia Street Road was … Continue reading
The McHenry County Board seems determined to come up with a site for another salt dome in the southeastern part of McHenry County, which the Transportation Committee has defined as south of Route 176 and east of Route 47. Perhaps … Continue reading
A press release from Congressman Randy Hultgren: Hultgren Supports Equal Transit Benefits for Mass-Transit Commuters Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Randy Hultgren (IL-14) has joined seven of his colleagues as an original cosponsor of H.R. 990, the Commuter Parity Act, … Continue reading
Friday afternoon about 4:40, there were two cars in the Virginia Street Road and Route 31 Park & Ride Lot. … Continue reading
Just before noon on Tuesday, I was driving north on Route 31 out of Algonquin. When I got to Virginia Street Road, I looked left at the new Park & Ride facility built where the road ran thirty years ago. … Continue reading
Two years ago the Park and Ride facility at the corner of Virginia Street Road and Route 31 was announced. Virginia Street Road used to enter Route 31 on a diagonal, hooking up with Klasen Road. Then Virginia Street Road … Continue reading
The energy crisis hit us in 1975. It was so intense that my constituents took after me while I filled my tank with gas at the station next to the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce building. One of the obvious … Continue reading