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Attention, people who drive on the Edens Expressway: Your life is going to start suuuuuucking tonight at 10 p.m. North of Lawrence and south of Lake Cook (which ... some Chicagoist staffers might have thought was "Lake Hook" road for, oh, years, having only ever heard it and never seen it), the right lane and the shoulder will be closed, and there will be a 45 mph speed limit. Also, IDOT says:
- The center lane of the Edens will be closed for patching, leaving one lane open from 10 p.m. on Friday night until 9 a.m. on Saturday morning.
- The overnight lane closure will be lifted by 9 a.m. — however, motorists should expect to have the center lane closed on weekend days to allow the concrete patches to cure. At these times the outside and inside lanes will be open until the concrete in the center lane cures.
- There will also be occasional overnight closures of two lanes at the outset of the project starting at 11 p.m. until 5 a.m. from Sunday through Thursday nights to allow for striping and other preparatory work.
It'll be like this until Nov 4.
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Some IDOT guy was on NPR this morning and he said people "should consider taking mass transit." See? Even the IL Dept of Trans knows that CTA/Pace/Metra are crucial.
It might be helpful to know if this is NORTHBOUND or SOUTHBOUND!
Both, Ferdy.
I always see IDIOT when I see IDOT. I'm guessing I'm not the only one...
Some guys at my office are so supset at the commute that they are talking about renting an apartment in the city and living there during the week. I actually think they are excited to be like, frat guys again. Thanks IDOT.
Whoo hoo! Looking forward to the increase in Bears players crashing their cars.
Someone told me that IDOT is telling people to use Skokie Blvd (aka Cicero Ave) as an alternative, which tells me that these people have never had to travel north from the city in the morning -- Cicero/Skokie is always a giant clusterfuck during rush hour, and I'm not sure if they're done with the construction they're doing under the bridge at the southbound Cicero exit.
At any rate, looks like I'll be biking to work more than I would care to.
Construction under the bridge is still going on, I drive it every day. You can forget about it during rush hours. South bound backs up all the way from foster to peterson and coming north from elston to forrest preserve drive.
And as for mass transit, depending on where you are going it won't really get you there. The PACE buses suck.