Aurora Beacon-News
September 9, 2004
I attended the third annual "Stop the Beltway" picnic Aug. 29. I saw some familiar faces but no Kendall
County Board members.
The current Kane County Board president gave a very good speech on the proposed beltway. After listening to the
reasons why the beltway is so wrong, I can only surmise that the only reason to build a beltway is because the
Speaker of the House wants it. The Kane County Board president mentioned that Atlanta got a similar project from
Newt Gingrich when he was speaker of the house.
The planners from Atlanta had one suggestion. Fight it! They are still dealing with problems caused by Newt Gingrich's
road.
If the Speaker wanted to help out his home district, he could gotten us some money for local roads. The Wikaduke
looks like a great plan. It is actually in an area of high growth and it utilizes existing roads. But it will not
help alleviate the congestion in the Yorkville-Oswego area.
We need Route 47 widened and another north-south road east of Sugar Grove before Montgomery and Yorkville fill
it with houses.
Jim Birch, candidate for Kendall County Board
Yorkville
09/09/04