Monday, December 2, 2013

Polls, Tolls and Rigamaroles

Christmas 2013 is out of the red and squarely in the green -- Black Friday was a jing-a-ling success in Lake County. Your LakeCountyEye, eyes always peeled for a bargain, laid some hands on a new Steely Dan ...

... album:
When Black Friday comes
I'll collect everything I'm owed
And before my friends find out
I'll be on the road.

Katy Lied
The road in question, of course, is the Route 53 Extension.

Haha, operatives still stuck in holiday traffic can pass the time by participating in the Route 53 Extension Project Feasibility Analysis Survey. The Daily Herald has the details ...
Do I want to pay $3.45 instead of 95 cents to travel from Arlington Heights to Libertyville 12 minutes faster? How about $2.95 rather than 95 cents to shave seven minutes off my commute? Or what about $1.20 for a savings of six minutes? My brain hurts after completing the Illinois tollway's online Route 53/120 project feasibility study.
Save time or money on extended Route 53?
You decide
Holiday cheer & feasibility surveys, no doubt, do not mix. Nonetheless, your LakeCountyEye -- who knows a thing or two about brain-freeze (especially in December) -- accepted the challenge, and went to the Illinois Tollway website:
Illinois Route 53/120 Project Feasibility Analysis Survey
Your LakeCountyEye can report that the Daily Herald was not exaggerating, this is one difficult survey, indeed:
The website looks to have been designed by the same team that did ObamaCare -- your LakeCountyEye was unable to get beyond the splash-page.

Truth be told, the Illinois Route 53/120 Project Feasibility Analysis Survey seems to be password protected. Surely somebody has the password.

Anyone?

Bueller?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Try "L...I...N...K"

Cal Skinner said...

Indeed. Why can't Terry Link get that road built?

Surely Lake and McHenry County taxpayers who would use it have paid in enough over the many, many years it has been on the books.