Message of the Day – A Banner

Our family was driving on Dirksen Parkway from the Drury Inn in southeast Springfield to the Old Capitol Art Fair in May when I saw this banner in from the Illinois Department of Transportation headquarters building.

I barely got off this shot in time to capture the message.

Reading the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday reminded me of the banner.

It says,

Start Seeing Motorcycles

There is another banner on Route 31 north of Algonquin in front of a gravel pit.

Obviously the Escort-driving Mary Lewis of Barrington, who rear-ended 58-year old Fox River Grove motorcyclist Bruce Ankele on Route 12 near Big Hollow Road, wasn’t heeding the banner’s advice.

Ankele was slowing for a red light “when a speeding car struck him from behind,” the Tribune story says. The Daily Herald story by Lee Filas adds some details.


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