The majority of comments centered on the IL 53 set of improvements. By a margin of 4 to 1, people expressed their support for the extension of IL 53.

Based on input from transportation providers, the LCTIP identified those improvements anticipated to be built regardless of the outcome of our study (see Figure 5). These include improvements to IL 22, Lake Cook Road, Pulaski Road, Martin Luther King Jr Drive, Midlothian Road, Weiland Road, Butterfield Road, I-94, Sunset Avenue, Bradley Road, Buffalo Grove Road, US 45, Peterson Road, Hunt Club Road, Rollins Road, Quentin Road, IL 21, and IL 83/IL 60. Over half of these improvements are funded for construction in the next five years. Other projects, such as intersection improvements and signal synchronization, will also continue regardless of our study. With all these improvements in place, congestion will still double by 2020. Additional improvements are needed to keep Lake County out of gridlock.

The LCTIP roadway options would add less than 4% to Lake County’s total 2020 population. The most important issue is the other 96% that will be here regardless. The County’s population has jumped from 516,000 in 1990 to nearly 620,000 today, and is expected to be around 800,000 by the year 2020 regardless of any major roadway improvements. Congestion is widespread already, and major improvements to the highway system are needed just to keep the County out of gridlock.

Not necessarily. The LCTIP has implemented measures to avoid or minimize impacts for all alternatives and found that the impacts were comparable. The potential impacts associated with improving existing roads is well known as evidenced by bypasses being considered as part of other studies in Lake Zurich, and Millburn.