BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) -- According to a survey, residents said Veterans Parkway is unsafe and many are hoping it could be changed.

"People are driving too fast and recklessly," one survey comment said. "I hear them racing on Veterans quite a few blocks away."

Veterans Parkway is one of the region's most dangerous roads, according to Reinvent Veterans Parkway. Between 2019-2023, 16% of all crashes in the Twin Cities occurred on the highway, with six of them being deadly.

"I know some families, they don't want their children to cross the street, they view it as a really dangerous [to cross] or even to ride their bicycles across," said Raymond Lai, the executive director of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission.

The Reinvent Veterans Parkway Project hopes to make the road safe

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