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Originally Posted by Liz
the dan ryans not that bad, the first day of construction everyone was making a big deal of it while I sat on the ike (290) for an hour and a half. its gonna have its biggest problem if there's an accident since there aren't any shoulders.
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Not since that first day. Now you gotta be on there at like 3 in the AM for the Dan Ryan to not kick your ass. You seen/been on it lately?
The other day I drove across it at 83rd St. It was like 8AM. Traffic was sitting. Literally. About a half-hour later I drove back across it, again at 83rd. I wouldn't doubt that those were the EXACT same cars and trucks (lotsa trucks) that were there my first time over. I found it so very hilarious...
And thing is, I was listening to 100.3 a few minutes after I first went over and the traffic girl there said 25 min from 95th St in. I was like, aw hhhhHEEEEELL naw! Way to send people off. Maybe more like, 25 min for you to move again once you stop. I don't usually even go near the Ryan nowadays during the day or evening if I'm driving somewhere, so that was my first on-site look at the daytime gruesomeness since the construction went full swing. It was strong visual evidence supporting the horror stories I've heard, which have been numerous and similar.
Since the state took away the embedded traffic-trip sensors (have those timing cameras they been promising online fully yet?) and taken the science out of time estimates, it's like some of the radio and TV traffic people are just pulling numbers out of their ass for the Ryan.
But this scene I speak of makes me think of the Married...With Children episode where the Bundys tried to go on a Labor Day road trip but they spent the whole episode sitting in traffic and got into fights and shit, and Peg and Kelly and Bud walked home from the expressway and Al got so pissed he rallied the people to tear the pavement up in rebellion.
If I had a camera, I'd take and post pics for y'all, and y'all would be like,
. Perhaps someone here will eventually (I bet Segun would get a kick outta taking some shots of the scene if he decides to take the Red Line cross town).
But not enough people will smarten up and take the L and Metra for that situation to be alleviated, I don't think. I honestly fear for the safety of a person who crashes or stalls there at the wrong time--and unfortunately I mean pissing off the wrong person/people because of it, moreso than any danger of getting hit.