Is Lake Geneva Sunday Night Traffic the Reason for More Cash Lanes at Marengo Toll Plaza?

Most from McHenry County, not to mention the rest of the state, will be blissfully unaware of westbound back-ups at the Marengo toll plaza near Route 20.

The reason is apparently Wisconsin weekenders returning home on Sunday night.

The reason, according to the Chicago Tribune, is that insufficient cash lanes exist.

There must be some heavy politicians/contributors in the queue.

Like, maybe, House Speaker Mike Madigan, who has a place at Lake Geneva.

(No, it couldn’t be Mike. He would have an I-PASS.)

It'll take a long time to pay off the exta $1.2 million cost from tired Sunday night drivers.

That’s 1.5 million 80-cent tolls.

Shame the Toll Board won’t also make it possible for McHenry County residents to head west from Route 47, not to mention get off in Huntley from the west.

But, then again, I doubt many who would find that useful are influential political types.

The tollway announced that the so-called “open-road tolling” for the Elgin Toll Plaza will be completed by late September.

Right on (election) time.

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