Chicago Skyway and I-90

[nwi_navigator_1181]

If I'm steering this off topic, I apologize. [worthy of its own topic --sso]

It's been awhile since I drove the Chicago Skyway (and with the $4.50 toll, it may be a while again), but I noticed that exit numbers have been added to the interchanges, mile markers have been added in correspondence to I-90's distance from Wisconsin, and the word "TO" has been removed from all I-90 reassurance signs along the Skyway. When has all of this taken place?

[hobsini2]

If I'm steering this off topic, I apologize. [worthy of its own topic --sso]

It's been awhile since I drove the Chicago Skyway (and with the $4.50 toll, it may be a while again), but I noticed that exit numbers have been added to the interchanges, mile markers have been added in correspondence to I-90's distance from Wisconsin, and the word "TO" has been removed from all I-90 reassurance signs along the Skyway. When has all of this taken place?

The TO tabs have been gone for about a year. The exit tabs and milemarkers are very new. Only been around for about 2 months.

[SSOWorld]

Well it's about time CDOT got their shit together!

[I-39]

They should have added shoulders to the bridge when they rehabbed it in the early 2000's.

[SteveG1988]

They should have added shoulders to the bridge when they rehabbed it in the early 2000's.

I've been over it...that would probably be worse...since you would reduce the traffic lanes.

My main complaint is the fact that you have to do a S-Curve on both ends of it to approach the main span.

[The Ghostbuster]

I think the Chicago Skyway's exits should have numbers.

[Stratuscaster]

I think the Chicago Skyway's exits should have numbers.

And they do. The original poster said "I noticed that exit numbers have been added to the interchanges."

[bulldog1979]

Anyone have a list of the exit numbers that have been assigned?

[SSOWorld]

Anyone have a list of the exit numbers that have been assigned?

Isn't that "original research?"

[The Ghostbuster]

If the exits are now numbered, they must have been added very recently, because they were still unnumbered on the Google Maps Street View which is dated August 2014.

[nwi_navigator_1181]

It was mentioned up thread the exit tabs are just a little over two months old. I hit the Skyway right after the changes happened.

From what I saw, here's the modified exit listing:

Exit 107: Indianapolis Boulevard (Eastbound exit only)
Exit 105: Anthony Avenue/92nd Street (EB Exit, WB Entry)
Exit 104: 87th Street (WB Exit, EB Entry)
Exit 103: Stony Island Avenue (WB Exit, EB Entry)
Exit 102: 73rd Street (WB Exit, EB Entry)
Exit 101: St. Lawrence Avenue (WB Exit, EB entry)
Exit 100: State Street (WB exit, EB entry)

[rawmustard]

The exit numbers happened sometime before the Madison meet, as I saw them on my way out to that event.

[hobsini2]

If the exits are now numbered, they must have been added very recently, because they were still unnumbered on the Google Maps Street View which is dated August 2014.

As I said earlier, the milemarkers and exit tabs are only a couple months old.

[SteveG1988]

Not sure where to post this.

Drove over the skyway earlier today, and saw the truss set up for painting the main span. The traditional scaffolding and coocooning was going on.