DANVILLE —
The remainder of the Main Street widening project remains on schedule.
“We’ve gotten about 15 of the 77 parcels obtained for that last section, and we’re continuing on the rest of them,” said David Bayler, Illinois Department of Transportation District 5 land acquisition engineer.
Most of the parcels needed are temporary easements for construction.
The East Side Tap building will come down to straighten the jog that now exists from Iowa Street to the west Veterans Affairs Illiana Health Care System entrance. Vehicles will be able to exit the VA and travel straight across Main Street.
One other house also is needed to widen a corner for turning trucks. The property owner will be relocated.
Bayler said if property owners haven’t been contacted yet, they soon should be hearing from IDOT.
If funding is available for construction, there will be a November 2012 bid letting for the project.
IDOT began widening Main Street in 2003.
The final section runs from National Avenue, near Danville Area Community College, to the Indiana state line.
Widening and resurfacing will occur on 0.8 mile of roadway. There will be a bi-directional left turn lane, curb and gutter, land acquisition and utility adjustments from National Avenue to Kansas Avenue, and resurfacing on 2.5 miles from Kansas Avenue to the Indiana state line. The cost of the project is about $8.4 million.
The Main Street project is just one area project listed on IDOT’s 2012-2017 project list.
Others include:
- Illinois 1/U.S. 150 from 4th Street to 16th Street in Tilton — Interchange reconstruction and access roads at an estimated cost of $11.9 million.
- Fairchild Street under the Norfolk Southern Railroad and the CSX Railroad — Reconstruction of the subway structure at an estimated cost of $7 million (fiscal year 2012).
- U.S. 36 over Salt Fork Creek, three miles west of the Indiana State line — Bridge rehabilitation at an estimated cost of $800,000 (fiscal year 2012).
- Illinois 119 over the North Fork of the Vermilion River, two miles east of Illinois 1 — Bridge replacement at an estimated cost of $2.5 million.
- Interstate 74 from University Avenue in Urbana to east of U.S. 150 west of Danville — Resurfacing on 24.4 miles and bridge raising and replacement two miles west of St. Joseph at a cost of $32.3 million.
Driven by the Illinois Jobs Now! capital program, the statewide multi-year plan for fiscal years 2012 through 2017 will improve 3,248 miles of road and replace or rehabilitate 611 bridges.
In the upcoming fiscal year, the state is expected to improve 490 miles of road and 105 bridges.
The multi-year program will provide more than $357 million in IDOT’s District 5, which includes Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar, McLean, Piatt and Vermilion counties.
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