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UNDSIOUX:
--- Quote from: UNDSIOUX on November 01, 2013, 05:25:53 AM ---FYI- as a regular user of I-90/I-39, the eastbound/southbound traffic between South Beloit and Rockton Road is now using the new pavement and you are no longer squeezed in sharing the westbound/northbound lanes. The third lane is still not open (on both sides) and there are plenty of barriers to move as well as restriping on both sides, but I don't see them taking more than a week or two to finish this.
But I fear they will drag this out and those 55 MPH signs will remain posted until Turkey Day travel week. :banghead:
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FYI- as of this afternoon, all three lanes on WB90/NB39 are open from the toll plaza at Rockton Rd. to the stateline and the limit is back up to 65 MPH. Looked like the same on the other side but I was unable to confirm (we'll see tomorrow morning). :colorful: No more construction- winter must be on the way!!
Looking forward to one construction-free year on my I-90 commute (haven't had many of those in the last 7 years)... then Sconnie's turn to widen the section from Beloit to Janesville beginning in 2015.
JREwing78:
--- Quote from: JREwing78 on November 02, 2013, 11:07:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: UNDSIOUX on November 01, 2013, 05:25:53 AM ---FYI- as a regular user of I-90/I-39, the eastbound/southbound traffic between South Beloit and Rockton Road is now using the new pavement and you are no longer squeezed in sharing the westbound/northbound lanes. The third lane is still not open (on both sides) and there are plenty of barriers to move as well as restriping on both sides, but I don't see them taking more than a week or two to finish this.
But I fear they will drag this out and those 55 MPH signs will remain posted until Turkey Day travel week. :banghead:
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That's great news. I was getting tired of driving out of my way to avoid this stretch.
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Crap, you're talking about the short non-tolled stretch just south of the Wisconsin line, not the 40+ mile construction zone east of Rockford, right?
Considering that I'm getting really sick of taking I-88 into Chicago, I looked up the status on the Illinois Tollway website. It appears they've reintroduced 2 EBD lanes of traffic on the newly-rebuilt EBD carriageway, albeit at a 55mph speed limit.
WBD is still a clusterf*** until the end of December (2 narrow lanes WBD, except for the single-lane around Belvidere), when they're supposed to be done with WBD construction until the spring.
silverback1065:
has the lake shore drive extension opened?
mgk920:
--- Quote from: silverback1065 on November 20, 2013, 12:43:35 AM ---has the lake shore drive extension opened?
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It's not an 'extension', per se, but rather a new section of boulevard well disconnected from the rest. Bypassing a serpentine former street section of US 41, it opened several weeks ago.
Mike
UNDSIOUX:
Yep- I meant only the I-39/90 stretch down to Cherry Valley. Obviously, I turn off at the split and I won't even attempt to drive the I-90 stretch until it is completed for the same reason I didn't drive I-90 for almost 2 years while it was under construction from Cherry Valley up to Rockton Rd. The whole "Trucks Keep Left" and 45 MPH limit- I have no idea why they simply cannot post signs that say "Slow Traffic Keep LEFT- Pass on the right". It is amazing that these DOT "engineers" promote the weaving that occurs as people go around slow trucks in the left lane and the slow cars in the right lane. It's just a recipe for impatience and stupidity and I have a tough time dealing with that for a couple miles, let alone 40+.
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