Avoid downtown Chicago expressways
October 14th, 2009 at 02:18pm Thomas V. Bona
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.
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1. Art | October 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Just avaoid Chicago. Why feed that corrupt place with your dollars, and pay 10% sales tax?
2. Sally Hanks | October 15th, 2009 at 8:06 am
100% agree with Art.
Speaking of freeways: Although I would welcome the widening of U.S. 20 from I-39 to IL-2, I question the prioritization. If they come up with an assesment that says it needs it, and/or the funds are available, why don’t they direct those funds to widen I-90 between Elgin and Rockford? No assesment needed there!
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