This episode is the unlikely story of a public toll road sold to private interests for $1.8 billion dollars, the story of the Chicago Skyway.
Resources on this topic:
http://trrjournalonline.trb.org/doi/pdf/10.3141/2297-15
http://www.chicagoroads.com/roads/chicago-skyway/
https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-blogs/chicagos-highway-in-the-sky/b38ffc79-0a1b-4d4b-985f-c5a1225f2c10
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Chicago-Skyway-Toll-Increases-Take-Effect-in-New-Year-408833865.html
http://ibtta.org/sites/default/files/unrestricted/38250_Section1.pdf
Dashcam video provided by Paul Donovan: https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulNDonovan
Other videos courtesy of Archive.org’s Moving Image Archive
Photo Sources:
– Great photographers from Flickr: Grant, Ian Friemuth, Ken Lund, Marc Buehler, Matt Buck, phvolmer, vxla
– Wikimedia Commons
– Chicago Tribune
– University of Illinois, Chicago
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