106th Street

The city of Bloomington just repaved 106th street and eliminate the two lanes both ways down to a one lane both way, with bike lanes on both sides.

I am furious. We live in the suburbs. We need cars. We needed the double lanes to get hither and yon faster.

Liberals want us out of our cars and using bikes but we are 15 miles from downtown and work suburb to suburb.

106th street is residential, but it is vital east west artery for bypassing the always clogged cloverleaf 3 miles north at 494 and 35W.

About 10,000--my wild guess--use 90th, 98th and 106th to bypass the cloverleaf to get south of the river to do business, do errands and get home quicker at rush hour.

Now the 30 minute in dry weather and 1.5 hours in a snow storm will get an hour added to each way because the idiots at city hall decided to eliminate a lane each way to improve the quality of residential life by slowing down, dampening traffic flow.

We have to get across 106th to get to our neighborhood. Now a steady 5:00 p.m. rush of cars for an hour and being unable to get across this busy street will ad danger and 15 minutes for locals to travel across a road that used to handle twice the traffic.

The government cannot stand liberty and people with maximum power to run their own lives. They get rid of lanes to force us out of our cars. Empty lanes on the freeway are reserved for buses, to force us into inner city high rises, with no yard and no car.

106th street for me is symbolic of everything the Left has done to expand federal control into every neighborhood and into every aspect of our lives.

We have to wake up, fire them, cut off their funding and retake control of our constitutional democracy.

Now it will take me longer to get to the congested freeway to go to work. Thanks, Bloomington for decreasing my liberty and quality of life. You central planners are so inexpensive, so clever and so helpful.