Nice Expressways and Roads
So a surprise April snow caught IDOT and CDOT with their collective pants down. Not a single salt truck was on the road overnight, leading to this unsurprising result:
- Fifty vehicles crashed in a massive pileup Wednesday morning on an icy Kennedy Expressway near North Avenue, sending over a dozen people to hospitals with minor injuries.
All lanes of the expressway were closed for hours, while Illinois State Police said it responded to more than 80 more crashes on Chicago-area expressways that were “covered in sheets of ice.”
Three semitrailers and 47 other vehicles piled up about 4:40 a.m. on the Kennedy’s inbound lanes, state police said.
We don't know what watch everyone works, but have you noticed that with less traffic on area expressways, the number of assholes doing about 100 MPH has skyrocketed? We aren't as pure as a west side altar boy - we keep up with traffic easily - and we're being passed like we were standing still most nights.
When can we expect some media criticism of Pritzker and Groot for having salt trucks sit idle in the yards while the Kennedy could have hosted a Blackhawks home opener?
When can we expect some media criticism of Pritzker and Groot for having salt trucks sit idle in the yards while the Kennedy could have hosted a Blackhawks home opener?
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
64 Comments:
You are absolute right about the idiots flying around on the highway. We were just talking about that at work and we’ve all realized it.
There was a bad 2-car rollover accident on the Ryan a few days ago at 31st street too.
While I don’t blame ISP for going fetal and not pulling traffic during this virus situation, but now the expressways have turned into the autobahn- except half the people are driving on suspended licenses while high on weed and closing in on triple-digit speeds.
With no enforcement threat, it’s a recipe for disaster, be safe all!
Besides the 54 car Kennedy crash Wednesday , another 14 crashsame time down the road at California.. IDOT trucks sitting empty... while truck drivers being paid, another Prickster fuck up , together with Illinois unemployment claims Website crashing Monday... IL Gov. JB porky is a fat mess..
Fake Clown Chicago Mayor Groot shows how useless she is ... during virus pressers
Road warrior...but this time gas is plentiful.
"We don't know what watch everyone works, but have you noticed that with less traffic on area expressways, the number of assholes doing about 100 MPH has skyrocketed? We aren't as pure as a west side altar boy - we keep up with traffic easily - and we're being passed like we were standing still most nights."
No offense SCC but when you've WASTED as much of your life as this "Asshole" CRAWLING in fucking stop & go Kennedy traffic for the last 20 years because yuppies don't know how to fucking enter & exit the highway, or move out of your way in the left lane, etc. etc. ...Then when you FINALLY get a chance to actually do 100mph (knowing ISP has been told to stand down) without having to deal with all the "57 is above the limit and that's as fast as I'll go" real ASSHOLES .. then YOU TAKE IT!! That is the ONE thing I'm dreading when this is over, the return of traffic. There may be shots fired on the Kennedy when I'm forced to awaken from these dreamy empty roads (Although they seem to be getting busier & busier by the day)
These area speed limits should ALL be raised to 70+mph when clear...You know it's rare when everyone can do 70 mph, so when possible, allow it.
Get used to it.With the whopping $60,000 Dollars in Governor Pritzker,s rainy day fund you will be seeing drastic cuts and elimination of most of your basic services.All of our bordering States have well over a Billion Dollars in their funds.
A decade ago, while responding to a felony-in-progress, 23rd Dist. Sgt. Alan Haymaker was killed on LSD near Irving Park Rd. when he skidded on black ice into a tree. Had the location been salted by S&S, the Sgt. would have survived.
There is no excuse for the city's failure to salt the icy stretch of the JFK at North Ave. to avert the 54 vehicle crash on the JFK. Unlike Sgt. Haymaker, those transported to the hospitals survived.
No way one can prepare oneself for a carload
doing a full-power reverse down Madison
IN THE PARKING LANE and making skeleton
faces at you as they pass you by.
Sometimes you just gotta give them room...
Y'all stay safe out here.
It's like a vehicular "Skull Island."
Well don't you all know "It too is TRUMP'S FAULT"! just like everything else wrong with Chicago after nearly 100 years of democratic majority rule!
Thank you Jabba and Groot. Blame it on the Corona.
Pritzker and Groot. If you ever give your crying blame Trump song a break go do your jobs!!!!!
Cities a free for all
I typically do 75-80 if the highway is wide open. Which seems to be a little faster than most, but I’m not blowing by people doing that speed, and plenty of people are keeping up and still passing me. So I feel somewhere between 70-80 is where most people are. I’ve been passed several times while doing 80 like I was in reverse. They other driver had to be doing 100-110. If one person goes to switch lanes without checking their mirror (which is inexcusably all the time) that person going 100-110 is dead when they try to swerve out of the way because a guy going 45 cut into their lane. You’re made up mostly of water people, crash at 100+ and all you can hope for is that you’re not mangled too badly to where you can have an open casket.
Salt trucks are essential for icy roads that thousands of vehicles use everyday?
The Governor doesn’t think so.
SCC readers may remember or not but, 15 years ago during an early evening blizzard, a SWA flight skidded off a Midway runway crashed thru the fence & across the road bordering the airport. No injuries aboard but tragically, a little kid killed when the plane slammed into his dad's car.
Drove home from downtown later than night, NB Kennedy Xway @ North Ave WAS a hockey rink. Roadway raised along there - effectively a bridge - & we know those freeze first, and it DID. 30 minutes riding the brake pedal to get back to level ground. Sphincter tighter than a sprung bear trap the whole way.
So when I heard the traffic reports this AM, the chain reaction pile up did not surprise. Seeing tv video the CFD honcho tho in a mask, on scene extolling, "social distancing" kinda did. Is what it is ...
Almost nobody in Chicago needs a car going 100 MPH. Card shouldn't function over 70 MPH, for most people. 😔
Plows disappear by April 15, for short lived snow. 😑
No Salt Trucks or Plows!!!!!
Perhaps if JBtheHutt wasn’t showboating daily in front of the TV cameras he’d would have made sure his commissioners/directors were doing their jobs.
Looks to me he’s had his hair cut later. I don’t think Mrs Hutt used a Flowbee on him
It was not a surprise, it was forecasted. Wait until tomorrow (Friday) is going to be worse than Wednesday in terms of weather.
I was on the Kennedy for over an hour trying to get to my south side unit, really appreciate that by the way, when I got stuck in traffic due to that 50 plus car pile up. I did not see one salt truck not one! They also have decided not to rotate the express lanes back and forth for the rush hour flow keeping them open in the outbound direction, if these lanes were open and salted it would have easily handled all the traffics due to the accident and probably made the accident less dramatic.
Oh well leaders with out a clue made bad decisions is what we’ve learned to deal with.
and don't even ask about the express lanes...no rhyme or reason as to if they are open on time or even running in the right direction!
this one is on you IDOT 100%!
i use the inbound JFK 5 days a week...the things i've seen...C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate(just kidding)
I never drive slower then 95 on an open Illinois highway.
The pension and that ID card in my pocket are the only reasons I’m on this job.
I miss my Flowbee.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Quick ban all cars from traveling anywhere in the country to stop this from happening again!
To be honest, I did NOT hear of ANY weatherman saying we were going to get 1-2" of snow. At any point, you would think with Temperatures BELOW freezing and its snowing, trucks would be out..The snow plowers have turned to street cleaners cleaning up Wrigleyville EVERYDAY!! I wish my neighborhood was cleaned everyday..must be nice. Afterall, we are paying high taxes in 016 as well and should get the same service Wrigley and Lincoln Park residents do!
The Kennedy is State responsibility , not the city, so put the blame where it needs to be.
People have to stop driving and playing with their phones, its down right dangerous and DEADLY.
"Anonymous said...
Almost nobody in Chicago needs a car going 100 MPH. Card shouldn't function over 70 MPH, for most people. 😔"
You sound like the communist mayor and governor telling us peasants what you think we do or do not "need". Limiting the speed of a private piece of property because YOU are scared of the results of misuse? Get in line with all the anti 2A people while you're at it. George Orwell would be proud, personifying that which he warned of.
I think the Rona got all District Chgo and Tollway troopers cause I haven't seen any of them anywhere. Back in the day when CPD had the xways, we would sit on the right shoulder running radar or whatever, at least you saw us out there.
"Skull Island"
That's where we want to see David Brown.
EVERY-FUCKING-SINGLE-DAY
That's what Brown can expect.
He's gonna make Beck look like a favored knob polisher.
"Dear Clinton family, J B has dirt on all of you and is ready to use it!"
The people of Illinois.
Sue the state for not salting fuck this state, fuck this Jaba Hut, fuck this city, and fuck this mayor. We need to open the economy back up and get things rolling again. We can’t live in fear. Oh wait the Democrats already brain washed everyone into fear.
Covid related.
Add that 12 injured to the list of 40,000 already over at The MacCormack’s Infirmary.
Hey, by the way are the over 200 paid up hotel rooms at the Essex still unoccupied?
Larri‘s Staatspolizei was dispatched and is seeking intra-city travel documents from those on scene and hospitalized to see if any of the injured were nonessentials that violated StayAtHome orders and will be subject to $1000 citations.
Off topic:
Uncorrected behavior is accepted behavior, decades of minimal enforcement and/or accountability post stop/arrest is the cause
On topic:
yikes, be safe, slow down, watch the following distance to drive hopefully on the roadway to your destination. As far as IDOT, how did they fumble this bad? yikes...
Well here he is, in front of the cameras as usual telling everyone how Illinois is a expecting a shortfall on revenue, well lets start by cutting employment in the Govt!
Same two politicians JB , LL that criticize DT were unable to have salt spread on streets , highways,toll roads .
They had information from local weatherman that temperatures would drop and 2 to 4 inches of snow ❄️ after midnight.
Cant really blame the state...that snow was clearly a Cabal created weather event. They are getting desperate since the Rona didn't kill as many people as they hoped for.
Well hopefully the state and city will have learned.....Friday will
Probably be a mess too.
To 12:49 a.m.: The Kennedy is IDOT's responsibility, not the city's. Hang that one on Pritzker, aka Spaulding Smails."
I've noticed the number of assholes blowing stop signs has increased, too.
Calling for another 1”-3” of snow tonight. Should be fun!
The 55 limit in metro Chicago was and always
will be bullshit...
With that said...
70 to 75 seems to be the de facto "understood"
speed limit on metro Chicago stretches of interstate.
Let it happen.
Then hammer the notorious left lane squatters.
Some of these CLOWNS drive like it's Nascar!!!!
Too cheap to salt? I was in Cleveland years ago after a big snow. I asked a local why the streets there were a mess? He says.. the City has no dough! Same here
Can't believe llinoisans and Chicagians voted for JB and Lightfoot. Voters in Illinois and Chicago apparently are NOT smart!
Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let 'em crash.
Salting of Interstate Highway System roadways in Chicago are the responsibility of the State of Illinois and not the city of Chicago.
I'm doing 70 in the right lane so I don't get run over!
Maybe all this is a Darwinism experiment.
Anonymous said...
A decade ago, while responding to a felony-in-progress, 23rd Dist. Sgt. Alan Haymaker was killed on LSD near Irving Park Rd. when he skidded on black ice into a tree. Had the location been salted by S&S, the Sgt. would have survived.
There is no excuse for the city's failure to salt the icy stretch of the JFK at North Ave. to avert the 54 vehicle crash on the JFK. Unlike Sgt. Haymaker, those transported to the hospitals survived.
4/16/2020 12:49:00 AM
But the salt would have gotten into the planters in middle of the road plants are more important!
FAt ass Pritzker is too busy beating up trump like the democrat scum he is. It’s time to get rid of him and Lori and expose them but the ass licking Democratic scum loving commie media wont say anything.
Who was blowing through stop lights early this morning on Caldwell? Inquiring minds what to know?
I have no sympathy for the NASCAR wannabes who are injured or killed driving 20+ miles an hour over the speed limit. They put my life and everyone else's on the road at risk as well.
Martial Law/Stay at Home Order will be extended through June 1st.Announcement coming next Tuesday afternoon.Lots of Covid Deaths have been hidden at these nursing homes and critical care centers.The death numbers are going way up as they play catch up.A little hint to the Pritzker media machine,don't celebrate low Death numbers on an Easter Sunday or any Sunday for that matter.Doctors and Nurses are human beings and tend to not pull the plug on patients on holy days or religious holidays.If I am a Governor of a neighboring State the last thing I would want to do is collaborate with a Governor that has $60,000 Dollars in his Rainy Day Fund and just spent 17 Million Dollars on Chinese Masks that are Deficient and under recall.Man,you can't make this stuff up.
Dear person who said I'm communist mayor and governor, your private piece of property 100 MPH car injured and kills cops and civilians. When your Speed Racer car does on a public street, it should be banned with your George Orwell novel!! 😝😜
I never voted for Jay Bob and Lari. Yes, I'm smart for not voting for them. 😝😁
"Anonymous Anonymous said...
I think the Rona got all District Chgo and Tollway troopers cause I haven't seen any of them anywhere. Back in the day when CPD had the xways, we would sit on the right shoulder running radar or whatever, at least you saw us out there.
4/16/2020 07:51:00 AM"
That was 35 years ago, chief. Keep up with the times. Illinois is broke.
We always talk about the idiot driving fast
what about the idiots driving 45 on the left lane prposely blocking the flow of traffic on expressways.
People in the US treat driving like it is child recess at the playground!
I've noticed the number of assholes blowing stop signs has increased, too.
4/16/2020 11:22:00 AM
Just the other day, at our four-way stop corner, we had a couple of idiots do the same, except they were going in different directions and met in the middle!
The noise and commotion brought the neighbors outside and socially distant conversation ensued while the two idiots argued over who was the "wronger" of the two.
Quarantining causes you to enjoy the little things, like free street entertainment. Good times!
Groot and JB are too preoccupied with Covid 19 to worry about little things like salting roads during a snowstorm.
Some of these CLOWNS drive like its Nascar!!!!
SCC, you are spot on! I've been saying this for a month, to my friends and relatives. The number of people out there driving like it's the indy 500 is crazy. I've been cut off in the far right lane doing 80mph on the stevenson about a dozen times since the stay at home order. I'm actually more scared of being rear ended by some A-hole doing 100mph then i'am getting covid-19.
"...I never drive slower than 95 on an open Illinois highway..."
I didn't know Eddie Wod had a kid with a driver's license. By the way, you sound like a real asshole.
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