The Illinois DOT logo is openly mocking you.

"DinoValentino" (dinovalentino) 08/13/2015 at 18:07 • Filed to: Illinois, DOT, Construction, Conspiracy, Logo

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People of Illinois, did you ever realize the IDOT logo is basically 3 unfinished roads going absolutely nowhere?

Surely this had to be designed to add maximum insult to injury as you merge down to one lane and they wave a SLOW sign in your face.

Mercedes Streeter > DinoValentino 08/13/2015 at 18:13

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I swear, IDOT only exists to troll drivers in our state. Collect our tolls and then take 2+ years to fix a main artery.

CB > DinoValentino 08/13/2015 at 18:13

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You ever realize IDOT is one letter away from “idiot”?

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > DinoValentino 08/13/2015 at 18:21

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There’s an avenue, two blocks down from my apartment, that started being repaved in 2010. It’s still not finished. It’s nowhere near halfway done. They haven’t even started the second half of the lanes yet. And that is just one of many infrastructure improvements that should have been ready by the 2014 World Cup. We were supposed to have a fully integrated subway system, they dug a massive hole for the central station, then two blocks Worth of buildings collapsed and they gave up. But left the sinkhole. We were supposed to have freeways and highways speeding up traffic from one end of Porto Alegre to the other. They managed to finish one single overpass, which promptly collapsed and killed 14 people shortly after opening. They actually cleaned it up, but never restored the other worksites to their former states, so now we got permanent logic defying detours.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > CB 08/13/2015 at 18:25

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In all honesty thats how I read it the first time

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > DinoValentino 08/13/2015 at 21:38

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It reminds me of Schmidt Revolution MYSTIC wheels

samssun > Mercedes Streeter 08/13/2015 at 23:33

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You might have written that facetiously, but it’s literally correct. The tollway agency was explicitly supposed to be temporary, to pay down construction costs and have all highways “Toll free by ‘73”. Instead it never went away, they hired endless legions of political employees to justify their existence in between political campaigns, and tolls increased & expanded to pay for ever-expanding benefits & pensions.

Nearly 50 years later, we have some of the worst tolls in the nation, and the money goes straight to union-strongarmed compensation packages while the roads fall apart. The tollway’s sole business is collecting tolls, which somehow requires thousands of full time employees and billions in borrowing long after the bonds were paid off.

uofime-2 > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 08/14/2015 at 10:13

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wow, that sucks!