Ah, this was something I forgot to mention with everything else going on. The Friday of the Homecoming concert, when I left for work, nearly all the construction stuff up on Fabyan was still there, but the left-turn lane on southbound Western was open. I know this, because I was northbound turning east and the dillhole in the opposite left turn ( Read more... )

The intersection of Winfield and Warrenville roads has been under construction for weeks. It's been weird; they'd do a little, then not touch anything for a few days. There'd be paving and then it would be undone, it seemed; at times it was like an obstacle course, dodging sewers that stuck up and lines of asphalt that went up Winfield ( Read more... )

I wasn't able to delve into everything construction-related the other day; that's the joy of having to finish posts by 7:30 AM ( Read more... )

Our joke in Chicagoland is that there are two seasons, winter and construction. Not-winter has lived up to its name in my area; I keep encountering torn-up roads everywhere ( Read more... )

This has been a weird week off, almost reminiscent of camp 2004. That was the year it was barely in the 60s all week, and I was yelling at the kids--most of whom had just been my students--to go put pants on, and some of the would say, we didn't bring any! You just don't expect it to be that cool in August. That's how Tuesday and today were, ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to do a construction update, but not like this ( Read more... )

After seeing the, frankly, poor lane configuration on Fabyan related to the construction, I've opted to avoid going through it when I'm heading home. I turn left earlier, before the lanes merge, in part because I dislike merging but also to avoid the terrible choices the engineers originally made, which was to have the left turn lane leading to ( Read more... )

There have been marquee signs teasing construction up on Fabyan for a few weeks now, and the date had changed at one point, but the most recent date was that it would be starting the week of 5-28-24. On Tuesday, they wasted no time in setting up barrels and such. I'm not entirely sure what they're doing, but the middle three lanes are blocked--the ( Read more... )

For the past couple weeks, Fabyan Parkway has had construction in a couple places. The first is a little confusing, at 31 and the bridge. This is the intersection that will be reconstructed in the next few years, which is why whatever they're doing is strange. They've been doing some sort of electrical work, and it looks like they perhaps were ( Read more... )

The construction at Kirk and Fabyan, I mean. I drove through there today and noticed that not only are nearly all the construction barrels picked up, but the speed limit signs have been uncovered. (Believe me, with no obvious construction going on and the barrels pushed off to the side, few if anyone had been doing the construction zone speed ( Read more... )