The recent City of Peoria idea to turn part of busy, industrial Washington Street into a 2 lane version of Prospect Road is beyond ludicrous. The city even mentions using Prospect’s “success” as their reasoning. Prospect is a residential/shopping area and has never been an industrial area. Washington is a state route for hundreds of large trucks between I74 and I474 and the many warehouses and industrial facilities between those 2 interstates.
Choking traffic on a major road is a bad idea.
The same type of dumb-asses who yakked about turning Prospect in Peoria Heights into Streetscape. They think by making things “pretty” that everything will be hunky-dorry. What the dumb-asses forget is that the roads were put in to handle VEHICLE TRAFFIC. Make it safe to cross the damned things, and keep the speeds down as best you can, but restricting traffic flow is plain old stupid. It’s just a way for dumb-asses to feel goody-goody about themselves and to line the pockets of the folks doing the construction work.
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November 25th, 2006 at 9:20 am
The recent City of Peoria idea to turn part of busy, industrial Washington Street into a 2 lane version of Prospect Road is beyond ludicrous. The city even mentions using Prospect’s “success” as their reasoning. Prospect is a residential/shopping area and has never been an industrial area. Washington is a state route for hundreds of large trucks between I74 and I474 and the many warehouses and industrial facilities between those 2 interstates.
Choking traffic on a major road is a bad idea.
November 25th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
I used to work on Washington St. That idea is certainly beyond ludicrous. What is their reasoning and who came up with it? This just makes no sense.
November 25th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Moe, Larry, and Curley
November 27th, 2006 at 12:39 am
The same type of dumb-asses who yakked about turning Prospect in Peoria Heights into Streetscape. They think by making things “pretty” that everything will be hunky-dorry. What the dumb-asses forget is that the roads were put in to handle VEHICLE TRAFFIC. Make it safe to cross the damned things, and keep the speeds down as best you can, but restricting traffic flow is plain old stupid. It’s just a way for dumb-asses to feel goody-goody about themselves and to line the pockets of the folks doing the construction work.
End of story.