What road projects are not in the capital plan
2 comments July 14th, 2009
Some confusion out there on a few projects, so I figured I’d clear it up.
While Winnebago County is getting more than $234 million in major road projects in the next several years, some projects are not in the capital plan:
- Replacing Morgan Street bridge: The $30 million project was already in the Illinois Department of Transportation’s six-year plan announced earlier this year .While there’s talk that the capital plan will prevent diversions from IDOT’s road fund, Morgan Street was already in the plans before yesterday. It’ll happen sometime between 2010 and 2014.
- Rebuilding West State Street: The $20 million project was also on IDOT’s six-year plan, and it’s also scheduled sometime between 2010 and 2014.
- Illinois 2 between Latham Road and Rockton: The estimated $30 million project would complete the new four-lane expressway that the capital plan will start between Latham and Elmwood, but it’s not funded yet. Leaders are looking for sources to do the whole project in the next few years.
Any other long-awaited state projects you wonder about? (Not counting tollway projects, which come from a totally different source.)
