Blah blah Blah Joliet talks a bunch of….Centerpoint

One way local government tries to convince you to vote for more taxes is to compare themselves to other local governments. Your tax rate is lower than your neighbor’s, they say, check with the Will County Clerk.
But instead of pointing out how they do more with less, they make the same mistakes like Larry Walsh coming on WJOL and saying that they are not a bunch of yes men, HEY they spend the tax money like water and yet they have enough nerve to ask for more and greater amounts, Damn we all know half of what he says is just for political gain and not for the benefit of the residents. The implication hasn’t been “aren’t we residents lucky we have him in office;” it’s been “aren’t you ashamed and sorry we elected him?”
Before they start pleading for money, please anyone answer this question: when is enough enough? Perhaps we need more visionary leadership which we really don‘t have at this current point in time.

The Centerpoint project issue of the new industrial park includes the creation of a network of truck-only, private roads to move freight traffic to Arsenal Road and I-55 but at who’s cost, will it again be at the cost of the tax payers so that cenerpoint properties can conduct business or will it be at the cost of Centerpoint properties– Think back a few months ago when the Joliet taxing bodies were planning to add an additional tax to fuel to pay for ramps that was to be utilized by heavy truck traffic for the Elwood Illinois current intermodial facility.

Thanas said: “We believe (Illinois) 53 can handle the additional traffic,” I guess this Thanas doesn’t have the forethought to know that it means approximately 2 million trucks a year plus the pulling of overweight and leaking cargo containers thru Joliet and surrounding communities, much of what is imported in the cargo containers is hazardous materials, now stop and think about the current credentials of the drivers pulling these loads in our neighborhoods.

Currently our roads are deteriorating from the traffic we already have from the increased trucks on our local streets, our infrastructure is failing, then Just a few days ago we here that the local politicians say they won’t vote them selves a raise.

I bet every one saw right through that line of bullshit and now with the Centerpoint issue happening the credibility of local politicos is not looking to good, Thanas said he’s been told that the state could start construction sometime between 12 and 18 months from now. Area officials have talked about a schedule for completing the interchange in 2011 or 2012.
The official word from the Illinois Department of Transportation is that the interchange is one of a number of projects with no firm completion dates. But it is scheduled to start by 2014, IDOT said. Sounds to me someone doesn’t have their facts strait now who could it be………I know! maybe it is someone that is looking to be re-elected.

So there’s no clear timetable for when that will happen?, Will County Engineer Sheldon Latz said: there’s no clear timetable for when that will happen, Latz said. He worries that the extra traffic from Joliet will hit the road before the interchange is upgraded. And, Arsenal Road itself may not have the capacity to handle the extra truck traffic.
So where does that put the traffic right down our neighborhood streets and who pays the cost we do.