Thursday, January 06, 2005
Posted
3:10 PM
by Gene
THIS is a GREAT story:
Rubber-necking drivers staring at TV crews who were stationed at a spot designated by the Illinois Department of Transportation nearly doubled the Wednesday morning inbound rush-hour drive time on the Dan Ryan Expressway, one professional observer said.
The delay--it was a 50-minute drive from 95th Street to downtown at 6:30 a.m.--was caused by drivers who slowed or even stopped to look at five TV news crews, said Bart Shore, WBBM-AM's morning traffic reporter.
"The Dan Ryan was a mess," he said.
The TV crews were reporting live on traffic that probably would have been moving at a normal or even quicker pace had the crews not been there, Shore said. "Every one of them had a live truck there from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.," he said.
The DO's DO it again!
(Better yet: one of the DO'S was OURS!!!!!)
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