That road is at least four lanes between Hicks Rd (US-14) in Palatine (as Palatine Rd) and Waukegan Rd (IL-43) (as Willow) on the Northbrook-Northfield border. It's a major east-west thoroughfare that entire length, with large retail presences in Arlington Heights and Northbrook/Glenview. The last 1.2 miles before the Edens Expressway (I-94), the 2-lane stretch in question, is a monumental bottleneck. Better planning would've widened Willow (or probably better, Lake-Cook) to an expressway decades ago. There's nothing but surface streets to carry east-west traffic, they're all heavily traveled, and this bottleneck made Willow the worst of them. Northfield has fought this for decades, crying "Think of the children!" IDOT did, and planned an underpass between the two parks (and neighboring school) where the youthful foot traffic is heavy. There's no reason Northfield couldn't have done that before I was born.
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- Jason Lindquist (
jlindquist) wrote,
Jason Lindquist
jlindquist
Well THAT's overdue
That road is at least four lanes between Hicks Rd (US-14) in Palatine (as Palatine Rd) and Waukegan Rd (IL-43) (as Willow) on the Northbrook-Northfield border. It's a major east-west thoroughfare that entire length, with large retail presences in Arlington Heights and Northbrook/Glenview. The last 1.2 miles before the Edens Expressway (I-94), the 2-lane stretch in question, is a monumental bottleneck. Better planning would've widened Willow (or probably better, Lake-Cook) to an expressway decades ago. There's nothing but surface streets to carry east-west traffic, they're all heavily traveled, and this bottleneck made Willow the worst of them. Northfield has fought this for decades, crying "Think of the children!" IDOT did, and planned an underpass between the two parks (and neighboring school) where the youthful foot traffic is heavy. There's no reason Northfield couldn't have done that before I was born.
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