Comments on: Anti-Interstate movement cropping up in western Illinois http://welcometoforgotonia.com/2010/06/anti-interstate-movement-cropping-up-in-western-illinois/ Dispatches from a Midwestern life. Sun, 20 May 2012 01:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bradley Dilger http://welcometoforgotonia.com/2010/06/anti-interstate-movement-cropping-up-in-western-illinois/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Bradley Dilger Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:09:22 +0000 http://welcometoforgotonia.com/?p=2141#comment-560 Setting aside the question of whether this road is needed at all (which I think is a big question, given the lack of traffic on the Quincy-Macomb 336): why is a completely new right of way is needed? Why not just four-lane Ilinois 116 from Roseville to Peoria, and connect it to the already completed 336 via US 67? Alternatively, why not four-lane the parts of US 24 and US 136 which aren't already up to speed? Setting aside the question of whether this road is needed at all (which I think is a big question, given the lack of traffic on the Quincy-Macomb 336): why is a completely new right of way is needed? Why not just four-lane Ilinois 116 from Roseville to Peoria, and connect it to the already completed 336 via US 67?

Alternatively, why not four-lane the parts of US 24 and US 136 which aren’t already up to speed?

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