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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Flaming at highway designers
Message-ID: <596@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Aug-83 22:26:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.596
Posted: Mon Aug 29 22:26:44 1983
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Organization: BTL Naperville, Il.
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	Another thing about Illinois tollways (and interstates), especially
	in the chicago area, is that the ramps only let you on/off in one
	direction.  Going from Naperville toward Chicago you have to go 
	about 9 miles before you reach the first exit, but if you travel
	from that exit back to Naperville there are 4 or 5 exits you can
	take before reaching Naperville.  (And each of those exits has a
	corresponding entrance only toward chicago.)

	Now, I realize this is because they wanted to aid the commuters
	by making it easy for them to go on and off as they commute to and
	from chicago, but many of us don't want to go the same direction as
	the planners apparently thought we would.

	This one-way only entrance/exit situation is especially confusing
	to us out-of-staters who moved here from states that (nearly) 
	always build 4-way interchanges.

	The way I found out about the problem was that I wanted to go to a
	shopping center that was at a tollway exit.  I knew so, as I had
	used the exit once previously coming from chicago.  Now I was going
	toward chicago.  I had to go 7 miles beyond the center before I
	could get off and turn around.  And then there was no entrance back
	on toward where I came from!!!!!!!!!!

	(I gave up and took the backroads)