By Nick Gale, WLS News
(CHICAGO) Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to increase lanes on the Stevenson Expressway, and the portion to be improved could end up as a toll road.
Rauner is pushing a plan that would let the Illinois Department of Transportation add a lane in each direction of the Stevenson, between the Dan Ryan and I-355, the entire length before it becomes I-55.
He wants to use a public-private partnership and says the $425 million project could be paid for by tolls and be finished in 2019.
The state can enter private partnerships for freeway building as long as the General Assembly goes along with it.
No word on if the tolls would go away once the project is complete, but as we know, there’s a long history of broken promises with regards to tolls here in Illinois.
The 25-miles stretch of freeway handles some 170,000 vehicles a day.
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