This past weekend, I drove out-of-state to pick up my daughter at college to drive her and her stuff home for the summer.
Getting back into Illinois, it was hard not to get aggravated by two things on the road.
For one thing, gasoline is about 30 cents per gallon higher around here than it is in some other neighboring states.
But there was another obnoxious reminder that I was indeed getting “closer to home” – a reminder that arrived every quarter mile.
The mile markers on Illinois highways, at least the ones I was on, aren’t just every mile. They are every quarter-mile, like the one pictured above.
That’s been developed over recent years, even as the state faces a fiscal crisis.
Maybe there is good argument why this is a cost-effective use of taxpayer money. I haven’t seen one, yet.
Maybe Illinois isn’t in such a crisis, if we can afford spending (and profits for paint providers and laborers) making stuff like this.