The Fleming Road Alliance (FRA), a citizens group expressing concern regarding the work McHenry County Department of Transportation is planning for Fleming Road, is holding a meeting Monday evening in the McHenry County College auditorium, 8900 Route 14, Crystal Lake.
Fleming Road, a 2.5 mile two-lane road between Country Club Road and Route 120, is one of a number of scenic McHenry County Roads. The McHenry County Department of Transportation (McDOT) engineers say the road has reached the end of its useful life and needs to be reconstructed for safety reasons.
The road is the only load-posted roadway (6 tons) on the County Highway System. The pavement has deteriorated to the point where full reconstruction will be required to extend the serviceability of Fleming Road. The roadway geometry is also substandard at numerous locations and will be evaluated during the design process.
In March of this year the McHenry County Board Transportation Committee approved McDOT issuing a Request for Qualifications for engineering services in connection with the reconstruction of the road. The cost for this engineering is $1,000,000.
Survey work has been accomplished which involved the placing of survey flags on the right of way and on adjoining properties McDOT explains this does not indicate any boundaries. These are flags the surveyors use for reference points. Trees have also been marked with colored strips. McDOT says this does not mean the trees are marked for removal. Before any trees are removed, a study is made of the species as well as the condition of the trees, according to McDOT.
On July 15, 2009, the Transportation Committee of the McHenry County Board held interviews with four firms and selected TranSystems Corp. as the preferred consultant for the engineering. The full County Board approved a $464,165 contract with TranSystems Inc. The funds are being appropriated, divided equally, from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund and the County Option Motor Fuel Tax Fund.
FRA says they invived McDOT officials to provide basic "Transportation 101" course information to put to rest much of the frustrated speculation that is running rampant in the neighborhood.
McDOT delinced, saying the meeting was premature and they are still in the process of reviewing the numerous comments received after the March 23 Open House meeting. FRA members say they came away with more questions than answers since they were not able to receive the same information by all in attendance at one time.
The FRA plans to hold their meeting with answers attempted to be provided by members who researched the questions as well as obtaining other questions to forward to MCDOT. They have express disappointment that McDOT will not be present at the meeting. Mary Molten, a member of the group says, "That does not sound very transparent."
The group has a video on the web of the entire length of Fleming Road at
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