The IL goverment in my opinion has to be the biggest bunch of cheap a$$ mofo's around. We started off with pay tolls at 40 cents. Then IPass which is a device that is senced by the toll plaza and charges to a account(making toll time shorter). And afterwards they went to 80cents for people who don't have IPass. and 40 who do.
So on this stretch of road 60 miles long between wisconsin and my house there are 4 toll plazas. One of them has become such a problem that getting from my house past it which is about 20 miles takes well over 45 mins during rush hour.(They widened the lanes after the plaza and before... Great still doesn't fix anything) All this traffic is due to this toll plaza. And today at the boarder they started to work on one of them.. It caused a 15 mile back up that took us over an hour to get through. All because of the stupid government is soo cheap that they can't raise the price of gas by 5 cents and get rid of these pointless traffic jam causing disasters.
And even better if any of you have ever seen our toll plazas there is about a 100 yard wide spot where 2 lanes of traffic have to merge into the gates. Now half the people forget that they have IPass and end up having to get through all the lanes to the IPass lanes meanwhile the other half forget they don't and have to go to the otherside, causeing chaos and traffic.
Illnois government AHAA we have an idea we will make speed passes where IPass users can totally avoid the toll booth and go through at normal highway speeds and still get charged on their IPass. And to make stuff even better instead of making these lanes a mile or half a mile back so people can merge into them and can avoid the traffic we will make the 200yrds back from the booths... ??? Where is the sence it that?? Sure you will have the speed lanes but no one will use them cuase they won't have enough time to get into them.
Sorry for vent but I couldn't stand that our usual under 3 hours trip took over 4 today to get back from our summer house.
MIke.
So on this stretch of road 60 miles long between wisconsin and my house there are 4 toll plazas. One of them has become such a problem that getting from my house past it which is about 20 miles takes well over 45 mins during rush hour.(They widened the lanes after the plaza and before... Great still doesn't fix anything) All this traffic is due to this toll plaza. And today at the boarder they started to work on one of them.. It caused a 15 mile back up that took us over an hour to get through. All because of the stupid government is soo cheap that they can't raise the price of gas by 5 cents and get rid of these pointless traffic jam causing disasters.
And even better if any of you have ever seen our toll plazas there is about a 100 yard wide spot where 2 lanes of traffic have to merge into the gates. Now half the people forget that they have IPass and end up having to get through all the lanes to the IPass lanes meanwhile the other half forget they don't and have to go to the otherside, causeing chaos and traffic.
Illnois government AHAA we have an idea we will make speed passes where IPass users can totally avoid the toll booth and go through at normal highway speeds and still get charged on their IPass. And to make stuff even better instead of making these lanes a mile or half a mile back so people can merge into them and can avoid the traffic we will make the 200yrds back from the booths... ??? Where is the sence it that?? Sure you will have the speed lanes but no one will use them cuase they won't have enough time to get into them.
Sorry for vent but I couldn't stand that our usual under 3 hours trip took over 4 today to get back from our summer house.
MIke.