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Cars & Coffee Killer
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: State of Failure
Posts: 32,246
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Hey, the tollway bonds in Illinois were paid off in 1985. They were supposed to become freeways after that.
Guess what? They're still tollways! Guess what else? Last time I checked, 2/3rds of the Tollway Authority's budget went to....funding the existence of the Tollway Authority! Only 1/3 of the budget goes to fixing the tollways themselves!
Part of the problem is that the Tollway Authority is now an entrenched bureaucracy, and it is a dumping ground for the not-so-successful relatives of powerful politicians. It is NEVER going away.
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