Talk:Tri-State Tollway

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It's too late for me right now, but at some point the following categories should be considered:

Category:Illinois toll roads

North-South Tollway
Northwest Tollway
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
Tri-State Tollway
I-39
I-80
I-88
I-90
I-94
I-294

Category:Illinois state highways?

North-South Tollway
Northwest Tollway
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
Tri-State Tollway

don't know about that one, but please discuss

Category:Illinois transportation (or whatever that one is)

North-South Tollway
Northwest Tollway
Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway
Tri-State Tollway

please comment... thanks!

---Rob 07:43, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I've gone and tagged this article and the Edens Spur article to be merged, because I've never seen them treated individually - except here on Wikipedia. If you have a look at http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/page?_pageid=57,1298863,57_1298877&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL for instance, you can see that the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority treats the Spur as part of the Tri-State. See also their System Map at http://www.illinoistollway.com/portal/page?_pageid=57,1302473,57_1302480:57_1302491&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL --JohnDBuell 23:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That seems fair. I'll wait 2 days for comments before I merge it in. Strange to have 2 distinct mile marker 50-55s (or thereabouts), though. --Rob 18:46, 30 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thornton Quarry west of Halsted?[edit]

Thornton Quarry is described as being west of Halsted Street. I have stopped at a Tri-State rest stop near a large quarry that was east of Halsted. Is this the same quarry? Could someone from Chicago verify if the description of Thornton Quarry is correct.

You're right, it was wrong, and now changed. Undoubtedly one of many errors that require auditing. Busjack (talk) 15:13, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are, of course, invited to perform this "audit". Just cite a reliable source. —Rob (talk) 19:12, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not if certain members start edit wars over it, as they frequently have in the highway groups. Busjack (talk) 20:34, 20 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

294 begins/ends in Wheeling?[edit]

The inital description of the article mentions that Interstate 294 ends in Wheeling and turns into Interstate 94 up to Waukegan. Is this accurate? I believe that 294 extends a bit north of Wheeling and turns into 94 around Deerfield Road or Lake Cook Road. Isn't that officially the town of Deerfield? -- Gantry 22:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It was my best guess at the time, based off maps. It may well be Deerfield. Where's the Deerfield-Wheeling town line? --Rob 04:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This Illiniois Highways page shows the terminus for 294 at Deerfield, so I'll change the article. -- Gantry 04:57, 2 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I worked there many years ago, and the designation either starts/ends at the county line (Lake-Cook Road) or the Deefield Toll Plaza.

Widening in the 1970s[edit]

I worked for the engineering consulting firm Metcalf & Eddy that widenend and resurfaced three tollway segments in the mid-1970s.

1974 Resurfaced 13 miles of I-90 near Rockford, IL.

1975 Added a third lane and resurfaced about five miles I-80/294 from Indiana border (under Oasis) to the (Markham?) toll plaza. They also added the concrete median wall.

1976 I-294, widened about five miles of road and asociated bridges near the I-294 Deerfield Plaza and Edens Extension.

Infoboxes[edit]

They should stay separate as the main subject of this article is the Tri-State Tollway. The Edens Spur is a "related route", much as M-554 is related to M-553 or M-44 has its connector. The spur here is not a disconnected section of the main highway; rather it's a spur. It should have its own section and infobox. Imzadi 1979 → 18:22, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Attention needed[edit]

The "Features" and "Lingo" sections should be combined and reworked into a proper "Route description" section. Hopefully when that's done, the promotional/advertising tone can be eliminated.

The mileages should be revised to use a consistent precision, especially now that our templates convert them into metric for non-American readers. Imzadi 1979 → 16:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Be bold and make the changes, I'm sure nobody will even notice. Speciate (talk) 04:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with Interstate 294[edit]

The entire length of I-294 is part of the Tri-State Tollway Dough 48 72 00:01, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. If the Tri-State designation was coterminous with I-294, I'd have no problem with this. But, it's not. Since none of the named highways in Chicago line up perfectly with the numbered highways, we should improve the numbered highways and transform the named highways into redirects and set indices. –Fredddie ™ 00:09, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point in that you would rather have the information in the numbered roads and the named road being set indexes, much like what is done in Southern California. I would be open to that idea too in which the Tri-State Tollway details are in the I-94 and I-294 articles. However, one of the articles needs to go as there is no need for two redundant articles. Dough 48 72 00:14, 7 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The simple solution is the use of subsections in both I-94 (in IL) and I-294. It should be handled similarly in the other named routes. KyuuA4 (Talk:キュウ) 10:04, 19 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Yes, this article seems awfully redundant, most of this could be covered in the Interstate 294 and Interstate 94 articles. NBA2030 (talk) 02:10, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support—Imzadi 1979 → 19:47, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cards84664 (talk) 20:07, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Own article[edit]

This should really have its own independent article separate from the other three Interstate Highway articles, similar to the ways that Kansas Turnpike is a separate article from I-35 and I-335, and Connecticut Turnpike is separate from I-95 and I-395. 98.118.32.140 (talk) 13:25, 15 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Large constructive-looking edit by IP user[edit]

2601:187:4581:7F50:B8F6:4571:7A43:464D (talk) made what appears to be a constructive edit to this article in 2019, and I was curious if it should not have been reverted? I am still fairly new to understanding the processes to edit Wikipedia right now, so it would be nice to know if I am missing something obvious that makes the edit not good for Wikipedia. Sschr16 (talk) 16:47, 28 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]