|Get started||Moline, IL|
According to Act-test-centers, Interstate 88 or I -88 is an Interstate Highway in the United States, located entirely in the state of Illinois. The highway is primarily an east-west route, connecting the Quad Cities with Chicago. The Quad Cities consists of four cities around Moline and Davenport, on the Mississippi River. The highway is largely a toll road and is known as the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway. I-88 is 150 miles long.
I-88 near DeKalb.
The highway begins at the interchange with Interstate 80, east of Moline. The highway runs parallel to the Rock River, heading northeast. The landscape is flat, and consists mainly of agricultural areas. The toll road begins at Rock Falls, with a toll plaza just east of town. At Dixon you cross US 52, a main road between Dubuque, Iowa and Joliet, Illinois. At Rochelle, one crosses Interstate 39, which runs from Rockford to Normal. This node is a simple cloverleaf. Driving on I-88 is relatively tedious, and the landscape returns to the signature grid pattern seen throughout the Midwest. You pass De Kalb, a regional town. At the height of Aurora one arrives in the first suburb of Chicago. Aurora has 176,000 inhabitants, while Chicago is still about 40 miles away. East of Aurora, the highway widens to 2×3 lanes. After this you pass Naperville, a second large suburb with 148,000 inhabitants. Many Chicago suburbs are relatively sparsely populated. Lisle crosses Interstate 355, also a toll road, and the westernmost north-south route in the Chicago metropolitan area. Both highways run side by side for a short distance with 4×3 lanes. Along the corridor of I-88, also called East-West Tollwayreferred to as industrial estates. The last toll plaza is in Oak Brook, and I-88 splits into 2 parts; one toward Interstate 294 toward the southern suburbs, and one toward I-294 toward the northern suburbs, and Interstate 290 toward Chicago.
The toll road opened to traffic on November 21, 1958. In the 1970s, the toll road was extended to Dixon.
The highway was not numbered as I-88 until late and was previously called State Route 5 and before that SR-190. The reason I-88 was not previously an Interstate Highway was because on rural Interstates, the speed limit had to be a minimum of 65 MPH (105 km/h), and the SR-5 had a maximum speed of 55 MPH or 88 km/h, which if can be seen extremely low for a rural highway. The number I-88 was assigned to the route in 1988. The highway is called Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway, before that the road was called East-West Tollway.
I-88 has no auxiliary routes and none are planned in the future. The toll road section has no exit numbers.
The section between Chicago and Dixon is a toll road, operated by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. The toll is fully electronic with the I-Pass. The E-ZPass is also accepted. The toll costs have almost doubled in 2012 compared to 2011. Nevertheless, it is a cheap toll road compared to European toll roads.
|Exit 1 (I-80)||North Aurora||2×2|
I-88 is busy in the Chicago area, but fairly adequately constructed. West of Aurora, I-88 is very quiet and congestion is a rarity.
Connections & traffic intensities
The cloverleaf with I-80 at Moline.
|1||Peoria, Des Moines||16,600|
|10||Hillsdale, Port Byron||12,800|
|36||Clinton, Rock Falls, Sterling||13,600|
|41||Rock Falls, Sterling||14,200|
|44||Joliet, Rock Falls||14,200|
|91||DeKalb, Annie Glidden Road||20,000|
|94||DeKalb, Peace Road||24,700|
|114||North Aurora, Orchard Road||63,600|
|117||North Aurora, Lincolnway Street||77,200|
|119||Aurora, Farnsworth Avenue||97.100|
|121||Aurora, Bilter Road||101,900|
|127||Naperville, Freedom Drive||148,800|
|130||Lisle, Lincoln Avenue||162,500|
|131||Joliet, northwest suburbs||143,200|
|136||Oak Brook, Midwest Road||148,600|
|137||Oak Brook, Kingery Highway||155.100|
|138||Oak Brook, 22nd Street||133.100|
Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge
|Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge|
|Total length||1,278 meters|
|Main span||175 meters|
|Bridge deck height||? meter|
|Traffic intensity||22,200 mvt/day|
According to liuxers, the Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge is an arch bridge in the United States, located on the border of the states of Iowa and Illinois. The bridge spans the Mississippi River on the west side of the Quad Cities and is part of Interstate 280.
The Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge is largely a girder bridge, with an arch span of 175 metres. The bridge is a total of 1,278 meters long and 25 meters wide. The bridge has 2×2 lanes and emergency lanes. Crossing the bridge is Interstate 280, the western and southern bypass of the Quad Cities, an urban area consisting of two cities in Iowa and two cities in Illinois. The Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge is the westernmost bridge in this urban area and handles through traffic around the conurbation. The bridge is toll-free.
The bridge is the first on this location and was built in the early 1970s. The bridge opened to traffic on October 25, 1973, as part of Interstate 280. The bridge originally had no name and was simply called the I-280 Bridge or the Interstate 280 Bridge. In 2010, the bridge was renamed after Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge. John F. Baker, Jr. (1945-2012) was a United States Army sergeant who served in Vietnam and was awarded the Medal of Honor. He was from Davenport, Iowa, one of the Quad Cities.
In 2012, 22,200 vehicles drove over the bridge every day, which means that it is lightly used.