Credit cards, guns among ‘regular’ finds as IDOT workers pick tons of highway trash – Daily Southtown*

IDOT spent approximately $41.3 million statewide on litter and debris pickup in 2021. According to a video created by IDOT, that cost is equivalent to resurfacing 21 miles of road or buying 261 more trucks to plow snow.
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Henry Hatch
1 year ago

That 41.3 million bucks could also hire hundreds of additional workers to lean on a shovel watching one guy who actually works.

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nixit
1 year ago

Is this why we don’t have chain gangs anymore? Word gets out where an inmate will be working and someone plants a gun for him?

debtsor
1 year ago

Third world behavior.

Mr Peabody's Boy Sherman
1 year ago

Solution? Chain gangs, remember them?

Freddy
1 year ago

One of my favorite movies was Cool Hand Luke. Great casting.

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