If you’re driving on any downstate road, chances are it’s turned to a gravel washboard potholed mess, since all the road construction money gets sucked into the black hole that is Chicago.
OMG I know. We moved about a year ago to just a half mile from I-355 and I take it to work every day. Just about this whole year 95% my the half hour route is under construction, which means you have to go 45 freaking miles per hour, with reduced lanes, or risk paying almost 400 bucks! The killer is that you only see them working on a small section or 2 at night but the rest of the time you are going slow just because there are those orange barrels lined up for miles. NOTHING at all being done to that stretch of highway. They really don’t care about the inconvenience. ALso the way they keep changing directions and having people merge at some locations when you are getting on there is no smooth merging you are bumped right out there hoping cars will see you and slow down to let you in. Also, there’s construction the whole way to my brother’s when I get onto the 290. In this part of IL at least, they have really made a mess of the roads this year. I guess they were on strike for awhile too but those orange barrels and “45 mph” signs were still there @#$