HANKS LIES ABOUT SIDEWALK TO NOWHERE

OPINION EDITORIAL|  First of all, let’s set the record straight for real on the sidewalk to nowhere!  Hanks is a pathological liar!  He claims this is "free Federal Funding” for his insane sidewalk to nowhere!  This is a $1.3 million dollar boondoggle that Hanks and some idiots dreamed up.   (Is it Federal or State?  He quotes both entities)

Hanks spouts off about safety for the kids of Sauk Village!  Let’s remember when he wanted to eliminate the school crossing guards when he was a Trustee; fighting against the safety of the kids of Sauk Village as he nor his own children have never ever attended a Sauk Village Public School!  Ya he really cared about the kids then, too?  Right? NOT! 

Then let’s take a good look at how much Hanks cares about kids and their safety in Sauk Village when mothers and their babies are walking on the north side of Sauk Trail between Orion to Torrence Avenue where there is no sidewalk running the entire length of this stretch. 

Let’s now talk about the sidewalks in Sauk Village that are so heavily damaged, they are heaved up over 6 inches from each other or so  unleveled that you can break an ankle walking on them!  That is if you can pass through the 6 feet of grass growing over the sidewalks from the vacant homes! 

Now let's look at the safety issue at Sauk Trail and Torrence Avenue where kids have to dodge cars going 45 miles per hour to beat a red light and there is no cross walk and no walk/don’t walk signals which lead kids to a community center with asbestos floors!  Ya that’s safe!   

Yet Hanks wanted the Trustees to approve a measure to spend $1.3 million on a sidewalk to nowhere?  He claims the money is a federal and or state grant but the TAXPAYERS gotta belly up first!  Why not take care of the mess he already has on the east side of 394 before making a mess on the other side. 

Let’s face it, would you let/encourage your 6 to 13 year old kids to ride their bikes across 394 to go nowhere?  Would you trust the life of your child verses a semi crossing Sauk Trail at 394?   

Instead of settling for a measly $1.3 million sidewalk to nowhere, which the taxpayers of Sauk Village are on the hook for the costs and engineering,  why not get the funds secured to provide a proper crossing of Illinois 394?  Why?  Because David Hanks doesn’t give a darn!  That’s why!