From the Editorial Board: Keep your eyes on the road and your tax dollars.
Traffic moves through the Jane Byrne Interchange on Dec. 14, 2022, after an event at the National Hellenic Museum to herald the completion of construction.
The morning and evening rush of commuters is different than it was before the pandemic, and the main reason is obvious: Many people with jobs based downtown have taken to working from home, especially on Mondays and Fridays, and they intend to keep it that way in 2023.Drivers can sometimes sail into the city from the suburbs on Monday mornings, which would have been a dream come true before the pandemic.
The third variable is public transit. Ridership on CTA, Metra and Pace continues to lag pre-pandemic levels, thanks in no small part to the perception that they are either unsafe, inconvenient or both, meaning more commuters are driving. As a result, motoring to and from downtown can be as rough as ever, especially on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, when employers are more likely to require the physical presence of their office workers.
The timetables for maintenance and replacement of roads also need to be adjusted based on changing patterns of usage. Some previously quiet stretches are now getting wear and tear that must be addressed before giant potholes start swallowing up those ubiquitous delivery trucks.Taxpayers, hold onto your wallets. If the Byrne Interchange project is any indication, adapting our highways and byways to today’s traffic could get very expensive.
Well, there you go. Asked and answered. It’s certainly not the governor’s fault. It was that loose-living soil all along.
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