Avoid downtown Chicago expressways

2 comments October 14th, 2009

A “pavement failure” on the outbound Kennedy Expressway near The Loop has caused all sorts of havoc with traffic downtown, several news outlets are reporting. Apparently, a contractor was filling up an underground tunnel with concrete and used too much pressure, causing the pavement to break above. The Kennedy will be reduced to one lane outbound for a few days, and state officials advise motorists to avoid downtown expressways for the next 24 hours.

Hopefully it turns out to just be human error, and not existing problems with the pavement. You always hate for pavement to *fail* but better for it to be because of external, preventable reasons  than it just collapsing because it was in bad shape.