Recently Bob and I were traveling across Indiana on the tollroad. The speed limit is 70 mph for most of the 150 miles or so across. It's even quicker than before as Indiana recognized our Illinois I-pass so there's no stopping to get a ticket and no sitting in line to pay to get off.
We were tooling along east bound not far from South Bend when we saw our first orange warning sign. A temporary posting alerting us to construction ahead. Over about 4 miles there was a series of signs telling us to reduce our speed to 45 mph and that the right lane was closed so merge to the left.
As car after car sped past us, we wondered if the signs were a mirage or if we were seeing things. Possibly those in the left lane were in some type of race or something. Bob reduced our speed to under 50 and seeing the lit arrow ahead in our lane, eventually merged into the left lane. All to the demise of the several fellow travelers as we were causing them to brake.
We saw a lot of rich people up out the road that day. Among the orange signs were several stating the cost of violating the construction zone was $1,000. Now there's a price of admission we cannot afford.
Some people must be doing quite well. There was a song that came out of the 1930s. The rich get rich and the poor get poorer.
The wealthy can afford to zoom past construction sites and speed no matter what limits are posted. Try driving Illinois' tollways at 55 mph. You'll get run over. In fact, Illinois has a law that it's a violation not to drive with the flow of traffic. That explains the rush on I-294 and I-355. Move over, you poor people.
'til later
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