McHenry County Board member Andrew Gasser has posted much more information on the 14-8 $10 million land acquisition vote by the McHenry County Board. You can access it here. Gasser voted on the losing side. Here are the most recent … Continue reading
Despite declling traffic counts on Randall Road, the McHenry County Board voted 14-8 Tuesday morning to spend $10 million buying land to widen Randall Road. Here’s the operative language in the resolution: …the sum of five million seven hundred fifty thousand … Continue reading
Hotly debated both in governmental meetings and on the street, a measure to approve the spending of $10 million more dollars on expanding Randall Road from four lanes to five will be voted upon by McHenry County Board members at … Continue reading
Rural Woodstock resident Susan Handelsman has calculated how much the Randall Road project would cost if all of it came from our property taxes. The cost of Randall Road project will exceed 1.43% of EAV (of taxable property in the … Continue reading
The following is from Lakewood bond analyst and political activist Steve Willson and appeared first as a comment under the article “NWH Herald Editor Has Doubts about Spending $100 Million to Widen Randall Road.” To the County Board: There is … Continue reading
District 1 McHenry County Board member Andrew Gasser left a comment under Saturday’s article about Northwest Herald Editor Dan McCaleb indecision on whether to support the widening of Randall Road from four to six lanes. Here’s his comment: The NW … Continue reading
Is it possible the relentless logic of Lakewood bond analyst Steve Willson is getting through to the Northwest Herald? Willson has written critiques of the project as stand alone articles and comments under Randall Road articles. Here’s a comment from … Continue reading
No way to know if the Northwest Herald’s poll on Wednesday is representative or not–or even how many people took part, but the results were not the pro-rapid growth forces in McHenry County would have wanted. The question was Should … Continue reading
The following was written by Lakewood’s Steve Willson: Randall Road and the Job of the County Board 1. The job of the County Board The job of the County Board is NOT to RATIFY staff recommendations. The job of the Board is … Continue reading
About two years ago, the Alliance for Land, Agriculture and Water has issued the following report with this explanation: ALAW’s committee, Citizen Advocates for Public Accountability (CAPA) has researched and evaluated the McHenry County Transportation Division’s proposed improvements on Randall … Continue reading
The McHenry County Transportation Committee rejected the staff proposal to approve spending $10 million to “expedite” right-of-way purchase for an expansion of Randall Road. The article announcing proposal can be found here. Also contained in the article is how $5.7 … Continue reading
Below is a paragraph from the Friday article on the report to the McHenry County Transportation Committee asking for $10 million to “expedite” right-of-way purchase to widen Randall Road from four lanes to six lanes from Crystal Lake to just … Continue reading
Next Wednesday, the McHenry County Board’s Transportation Committee has before it a request to authorize another $10 million for “the acquisition of right-of-way for the Randall Road widening and resurfacing capacity improvement project.” $5 million was previously appropriated in February of 2014. … Continue reading
Apparently stimulated by my little article on the pothole on the McDonald’s side of Randall Road near the traffic light in Algonquin, bond analyst Steve Willson has written about how a road approval or disapproval should be determined. Since this … Continue reading
Went to Algonquin Saturday to Red Robin. As we were returning to Crystal Lake, I noticed the Randall Road pothole in the photo below across from the old Citco Station, which I assume the McHenry County Transportation Department has already … Continue reading
Another road question asked by County Board Chairman Joe Gottemoller of the four applicants for the remaining term of recently-resigned McHenry County Board member Ken Koehler concerning kicking in county tax dollars to subsidize the extension of Illinois Route 53 … Continue reading
When McHenry County Board Chairman Joe Gottemoller and three other members were interviewing four applicants who wish to serve out Metra Board member Ken Koehler remaining term, Gottemoller asked a series of questions about road construction. “Should we improve Randall … Continue reading
From the McHenry County Department of Transportation: SEPTEMBER 30, 2015: The Randall Road design team has completed its initial coordination with the environmental resource agencies such as the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Illinois Environmental Protection Agency United States Army … Continue reading
Today the McHenry County Department of Transportation released the construction schedule for Randall Road. Posted on its web site is the following: The Randall Road project has been divided into two contracts. Construction of Contract 1 (south of Bunker Hill … Continue reading
“The proposed improvement exhibit for the Randall Road project has been updated with greater detail to better show how median pavements and intersections will be designed.” That’s what the email from the County Highway Department said. Take a look at … Continue reading
