At the Lakeview Civic Association’s April 16 meeting, and in a later post on Facebook, County Legislator Carrie Solages announced his commitment to a community project to restore Woodfield Road and Eagle Avenue, citing the need for safer roads.
“I'm fulfilling my role as a county legislator. My role is to secure funding for projects in my district,” Solages said. “I’m very thankful for the cooperation of all my colleagues, the County Executive, and the Department of Public Works.”
“When it comes to public safety on public roads, it’s about enforcement, engineering, and education, the three Es,” Solages said. “As a legislator, I can promote better engineering and better driver education.”
Over $6 million in funding for the project was previously secured by State Sen. Selia Bynoe, when she was a County Legislator. Bynoe was a legislator from 2014 to 2024. Solages took initiative to ensure the road restoration project would pass through the legislative progress. “I wanted to make sure the money allocated for the roads was not used for any other purpose,” he said at the Civic meeting.
Solages said one of his other motivations for this project was making the road and the area around it look better, along with being safer. “It’s not aesthetically pleasing,” he said. “We’re visual people, you know? We’re not so complicated.”
This beautification to go along with the road renovation is meant to stimulate business. “My goal was also to create more economic development; people are not going to invest in a neighborhood that doesn’t look and feel good,” Solages said. “I want to see a community that has nice, safe roads that lead to safe homes and more economic prosperity. People won’t want to invest in a community that doesn’t look good.”
There is no set timeline for the construction project, but it is moving forward, Solages said. “Here, you have to rely on so many layers of government. In the city, you have one government in charge of schools, roads, sewers, transportation,” he added.
He also expressed enthusiasm that the project was on schedule, with no significant stalling or delays. “There’s a lot of bureaucracy. That’s why I can’t give a specific timeline, but the process is moving along.”
