Access to new public health building proves perilous

CHAMPAIGN – Watching from her office window near the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District building, Mona Wright is alarmed by the perils to pedestrians she's witnessing.

Young moms push their babies in strollers, their toddlers following behind them, and even people in wheelchairs roll down the street to reach a new public health building, along an interstate frontage road that lacks both bus service and sidewalks.

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