Giving our politicians photo-ops...
Dan Ryan 'open for business'
By Ryan Haggerty Tribune staff reporter
12:59 PM CDT, October 25, 2007
After nearly two years of lane closures, traffic jams and lengthier commutes, reconstruction of the Dan Ryan Expressway came to a ceremonial end this morning.
"Today, the Dan Ryan is open for business," said Gov. Rod Blagojevich, moments before he and other politicians and transportation officials cut a ribbon on the 39th Street entrance ramp to the outbound expressway. "All you need to do is look behind us at how smoothly the traffic is flowing."All lanes of the rebuilt expressway should be open overnight, six days before the project's previously scheduled completion, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Preliminary design of the project began in 2000, and mainline construction was underway by early 2006.The project included adding one lane in each direction, creating longer entrance and exit ramps to increase merging space, improving drainage to reduce flooding, installing taller and more powerful light fixtures, redesigning and rebuilding the interchange with the Chicago Skyway, and the complete reconstruction of 28 bridges over the expressway, according to IDOT.
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And you see that? It finished 6! days early!!
Wow. All that hard work is really going to come in handy now that the price of oil is starting to spike. Thank goodness for more lanes. I hope they start tearing down buildings next to put in more lanes. More lanes! More lanes! Everytime I have to drive somewhere, I keep having to go by builings and things when if they just put in more lanes from my house to other places I could drive faster and save more time. As a matter of fact if they just tore down everything and put in more lanes I could drive for fun again.
After they close the CTA down they're just going to have to add more lanes - and how much phokking money will dat cost? More than if the put into the CTA...
Hasn't Blago been indicted yet?
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