I-65 North to I-80/94 East ramp closed July 26. Midnight to 5am. Posted detour takes traffic from I-65 NB to I-80/94 WB, then to the ramps at SR 53 and return to EB I-80/94.

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Welcome to the Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) Travel Help pages. These pages are intended to introduce you to the informational pages available at the GCM Travel site and to explain the layout and usage of those pages.

The main intention of the GCM Travel site is to provide the traveller with up-to-date information in order to make informed travel decisions. To this effect, it provides available information about current traffic conditions and links to other sites which pertain to transportation related issues in the corridor.

The GCM Corridor consists of the 16 urbanized counties and 2,500 miles of roadways which connect the three cities. The 16 counties include Cook, DuPage, Lake, Kane, McHenry, and Will in Illinois, Lake, LaPorte, and Porter in Indiana, and Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha in Wisconsin. The Corridor includes all expressways, tollways, major arterials, airports, transit facilities, ports, and rail systems within these 16 counties.

When you first reach the GCM Travel site (http://www.gcmtravel.com) you are presented with the main Welcome page. On this page are links to the other pages at this GCM Travel site which can provide you with up-to-date traffic conditions and other travel information.

The Welcome Page

The Welcome page looks like this:

The sections of the main page are as follows:

  1. The GCM Logo - Our logo shows the 16 counties which make up the GCM Corridor and indicates that this page is part of the GCM Travel site.
  2. The Menu Bar - Provides drop down menus to allow you to directly access every page in the GCM Travel Site. The items in the bar list the main sections of this site, while the drop downs allow you to directly select the pages within each section. Clicking on the main items in the bar (not on the drop downs) will retrieve a page describing each section. Some section which consist of only a single page do not have a drop down menu.
  3. Messages - This area will display current messages of importance to travellers in the GCM Corridor. Each time you select or refresh a page on the GCM Travel site the message displayed in this area may change (i.e., cycle through the current list of important messages).
  4. Description Area - This area of the page describes the information available on this site. The items in this description are hyperlinked directly to the pages for the various reports described, so you may access them using these hyperlinks in addition to using the menubar and drop down menus.
  5. Sponsors - This area of the page lists the government agencies which have sponsored this page. You may click on the icons for each agency to be taken to the web site for that agency.

The Menu Bar

Below you can see an example of the drop down menus available from the menu bar.

The drop down menu (1) will appear when you place your mouse over the item in the menu bar corresponding to the drop down (in this case, over the "Reports" item). Scrolling down the drop down menu highlights each menu item in turn. Click on the highlighted menu item to fetch the related page. If you move your mouse off the edge of the drop down, it will disappear, but you can easily cause it to be displayed again by repositioning your mouse over the corresponding item in the menubar.

Note that some menubar items do not have drop down menus, because these sections of the site consist of a single page. Simply click on the menubar itself to fetch these pages. For sections with drop down menus, the main section page is accessed by clicking on the menubar directly. The drop downs direct you to sub pages within the main sections. Once you are familiar with the site, you will probably use the drop down access, but initially you might want to view the main sections pages to read about the information and reports contained in those sections.

The menubar and drop down menus are created using JavaScript. Some browsers do not support JavaScript, and some users have elected to disallow JavaScript usage in their browsers which do support it. The GCM Travel site depends on the availability of JavaScript. This site is not alone in that requirement, as many web sites make use of JavaScript capabilities to enchance the appearance and usefulness of their pages.

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