Urban sprawl problems not addressed in county’s wish list

I can’t really argue with the $62 million “wish list” of projects of that Peoria County developed. The county would like to get funding from the state and federal governments for the stuff on this list. I’ll remind readers that federal money is not found money, it’s the money you and I send in to Washington in hopes that we’ll get some of it back after their done wasting most of it on administrative costs.

But when I’m reading this list — which I am sure is not complete — I’m not seeing anything that would tackle the growing problems coming from created by the city and county’s headlong rush to build subdivisions north of Peoria toward Dunlap. The people moving out there are driving on increasingly clogged rural county roses designed to handle far fewer cars than they are now.

There are rural intersections that have as much traffic as does any four-way stop in Peoria. As as more developments open and more people move north, the traffic is just going to get longer, because virtually all of these people work in Peoria.