http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/11/09/needless-tree-destruction-on-scenic-route-2/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:49:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://rockrivertimes.com/2011/11/09/needless-tree-destruction-on-scenic-route-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3847 VeryModest Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:36:17 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=34161#comment-3847 While I'll miss driving through that section of trees on my daily commute from the country into the city - just as you will, but I also see the need for a safer road. That stretch of IL 2 has been a death trap for decades. What I really wish they had done is swung the new road out around the back side of the trees before heading north. It would have cost the tax payers less simply because there would not have been the need to build a bridge. That only would have saved us all money. Maybe even enough money that they could of taken the new road all the way north instead of leaving a less than 2 mile section of the road incomplete. While I’ll miss driving through that section of trees on my daily commute from the country into the city – just as you will, but I also see the need for a safer road. That stretch of IL 2 has been a death trap for decades. What I really wish they had done is swung the new road out around the back side of the trees before heading north. It would have cost the tax payers less simply because there would not have been the need to build a bridge. That only would have saved us all money. Maybe even enough money that they could of taken the new road all the way north instead of leaving a less than 2 mile section of the road incomplete.

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