Illinois Tollway Notes

[SSOWorld]

Lighter side: Hillside strangler strangling more than traffic.

[mgk920]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

Over a century ago, newspapers were at WAR against each other.  What you see now in the media is totally mild compared to then.

Mike

[GeekJedi]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

Interesting. So if something of note happens, I can keep it silent by not telling one side of the story? Sounds legit.

[Rothman]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

Interesting. So if something of note happens, I can keep it silent by not telling one side of the story? Sounds legit.

You can keep it silent until you're ready to report a balanced story.

[SEWIGuy]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

"Printing" was actually happens isn't bias.  The fact that the other side doesn't respond isn't the fault of the publisher.

[Rothman]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

"Printing" was actually happens isn't bias.  The fact that the other side doesn't respond isn't the fault of the publisher.

Pfft.  By law, the party must respond to the official complaint.  Journalists know this and choosing to print the story prior to the response is just wanting to run a biased story.

[SEWIGuy]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

"Printing" was actually happens isn't bias.  The fact that the other side doesn't respond isn't the fault of the publisher.

Pfft.  By law, the party must respond to the official complaint.  Journalists know this and choosing to print the story prior to the response is just wanting to run a biased story.

I can't really have a discussion any longer with someone who doesn't understand what "bias" means or how journalism works.

[Rothman]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

"Printing" was actually happens isn't bias.  The fact that the other side doesn't respond isn't the fault of the publisher.

Pfft.  By law, the party must respond to the official complaint.  Journalists know this and choosing to print the story prior to the response is just wanting to run a biased story.

I can't really have a discussion any longer with someone who doesn't understand what "bias" means or how journalism works.

Ditto.

[SSOWorld]

[hobsini2]

"Tollway didn't talk to us...but they cited two provisions to us.."

Agencies don't terminate contracts lightly.  It'd be great if journalists would wait to get the filed response to the plaintiff's complaint to report on such lawsuits to avoid one-sided articles like this due to legal advice to not talk about lawsuits...

So journalists shouldn't report on a lawsuit until the other side files a response? That's not really a great standard.

Sure it is.  It's called not printing a biased story.

Interesting. So if something of note happens, I can keep it silent by not telling one side of the story? Sounds legit.

You can keep it silent until you're ready to report a balanced story.

Or you can be like Fox News and show bias but call it "Fair and balanced". But that's not why you called.

[J N Winkler]

Folks, take care--this is verging on becoming a political discussion.

[ET21]

On a more on track update, all the steel beams are up over 294 for the 490 ramp. On a side note, construction progress has finally begun to happen south of the I-90/490 interchange. Also a I-490 sign is currently turned backwards at what will be the future on ramp from EB I-90.

[paulthemapguy]

Lighter side: Hillside strangler strangling more than traffic.

Strangling counts as "lighter side" content???

(obviously I took this out of context)