Is that IDOT or IDiOT?

RoadRage hit the road on his day off today, and for once it was an enjoyable ride. Why? Because I was driving in Wisconsin, where they know how to handle a road construction site.

I was driving down Route 50 in Kenosha and drove near a construction zone. Instead of closing one of the lanes on the two-lane road seven miles before and after the 50-foot construction zone, the road was down to one lane for about 200-feet.

Traffic wasn't held up at all, and the construction workers had plenty of space to get their work done.

This isn't unusual. On RoadRage's trips across country, most states follow this technique -- they even do it that way in Central Illinois. But, for some reason, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) feels it necessary to stall traffic for hours on end in and around Chicago by unnecessarily closing lanes for miles on end, even though there is hardly any work being done -- ever -- and the work area covers very little ground.

The people at IDOT, which I prefer to call I-D-I-O-T, can improve the quality of life for thousands of people in the Chicago area by using common sense and ceasing to unnecessarily close roads off for no good reason, but they will never do it because they can artificially inflate their annual budgets by having more roads under construction.

So, for that, they can all got to hell!

RoadRage