PING.
Because the project may get built even if there is no Federal funding available for it.
As a toll authority, the Illinois Tollway can float bonds for the road that may cover almost the entire cost.
Do something about I-90 near O’Hare. Every time my wife and I drive through Chicago from Minneapolis to Elkhart that is the one spot on our trip that ALWAYS jams up day or night.
That money is undoubtedly filling RAT pockets.
Environmental studies have an expiration date. If not used in that period of time, they have to be redone. That does not mean just putting a new date on it. All information going into it must be updated. Generally, it must be used within 5 years.
I got a letter from the Illinois Tollway a week or so ago. Said I owed them $37.10 for toll violations or something. Even had a very dark picture (taken at night) showing the front license plate of my vehicle.
I called em up and said we’ve got a problem. Said the last time I crossed the Illinois state line was some 15 years ago. Changing planes in Chicago. Said I couldn’t remember the last time I drove my own vehicle over the line, and that Indiana didn’t use front license plates.
The call center guy said this happens more frequently than you might think. I got another letter from them a few days later zeroing out “my account”.
LOL
Isn’t government efficiency grand?