Lesson Learned From Borman Expressway Flood -- Build the Illiana Expressway
The Great Borman Expressway Flood of '07
The Great Borman Expressway Flood of '07 shows the need to build the Illiana Expressway:
For naysayers, hoping that transportation problems will solve themselves by halting new road construction is faulty logic. When the Borman Expressway was closed, trucks and cars traveling from New York to California and points in between flowed into Northwest Indiana city streets seeking alternate routes.
And, it is foreseeable that accidents, roadwork, heavy snow, or any number of other reasons could block the Borman Expressway.
Borman Expressway traffic jam Illiana Expressway Flood Northwest Indiana I-80 I-94 I-65 I-57
Labels: Borman Expressway, Flood, I-57, I-65, I-80, I-94, Illiana Expressway, Northwest Indiana, traffic jam
posted by Chris Hedges at
6:41 AM
2 Comments:
You can't continue unlimited urban sprawl when this area used to be wetlands. Had those exits remained undeveloped, most of the rain would have run off into the wetland.
Hi Anon,
It would be great if we could keep the area the way it used to be, but the pressure from California to New York traffic as well as local Chicago - Northwest Indiana traffic will ensure that cars and trucks will either travel on the Borman Expressway or on side streets as alternatives.
Whenever the Kingery or Borman are backed up, traffic finds a way. In the south Chicago 'burbs, 159th Street fills up with trucks. The same thing happened in NW Indiana on Ridge, 165th St., and US 30 when the Borman was blocked. I remember reading that SR 2 was a popular alternative truck route when the Borman was under construction during the last century.
Maybe there is a compromise solution that encourages wetlands preservation while providing for the ever increasing numbers of vehicles that pass through the area.
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