No Detours as Part of Willow Rd. Construction, Delays Expected
The widening of Willow Road in Northfield will start this spring, but will not include detours off the main artery to the Edens Expressway.
There will undoubtedly be congestion on the 1.2 miles of Willow Road slated to be widened to four lanes starting this spring, but there won't be detours off the main artery between Waukegan Road and I94, according to TribLocal. Northfield Village Manager Stacy Sigman is quoted in the article as saying that no detours are planned during the construction, which will start around April 1 and is scheduled to last until October 2014. Traffic will be shifted to temporary southern lanes while the northern lanes are worked on, and then the traffic will switch so the crews can work on the southern lanes, Sigman said. The $35 million project includes four 10-foot-wide lanes for most of its length, with a landscaped median, left-turn lanes, …
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Billy Bob Shapiro
4:26 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
That area of Willow Rd has always been a speed trap for Northfield. The village has tried to keep traffic away by writing tickets for a few miles over and keeping the lights mis-timed. This has gone on for years and the state has said nothing. Now they will get away with lowering the speed limit, just to prove a point. Take Dundee Rd. It's quicker and the shop owners in Northbrook are nicer. If … more ›