Blagojevich proposes carpool lanes for toll roads
Governor Blagojevich is now proposing carpool lanes for toll roads. To do this he will borrow more money and raise more fees.
Eighty miles of Green Lanes will be instituted in the metropolitan region along I-88, I-355, I-90 and I-294. The cost is about $400 million.
Fixing the I-90 and I-290/Route 53 interchange and buildiing the I-294 and I-57 interchange are pegged at $1.4 billion.
The improvements will be paid for by borrowing the money and increasing tolls for commercial vehicles starting in 2015.
The State of Illinois is already $110 Billion dollars in debt. Blagojevich now wants to borrow almost $2 billion dollars more. If you ever need a reason for recall or a Con Con, here you go. We are in debt, yet have a balanced budget clause in the current Constitution. The legislature won’t give us recall and we don’t have the right for citizen ballot initiatives.
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