SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Transportation has announced three new local 2020 construction projects.
Two of the blueprints involve patching and resurfacing on Interstate 74.
One will take place from east of SR-78 to west of Kickapoo/Edwards Rd. That will cost $16 million and involves drainage and bridge joint replacements.
Construction is slated to begin in August, with a fall 2021 completion target date.
The other involves the same aspects along a stretch of road from west of Kickapoo/Edwards to just east of I-474.
Just like the other patching and resurfacing project, it will start later in the summer of 2020 and is slated for a completion date of fall of 2021, with a cost of $10.9 million.
“This one started deteriorating the last few years, so we decided to move this project forward because we got the funding,” said IDOT Spokesperson Paul Wappel.
The funding Wappel mentioned was $103.1 million coming from the Rebuild Illinois program.
The other project in question involves the bridge over I-74 on Pinecrest Dr.
IDOT said it plans to entirely replace the bridge, guardrail, and lighting, and will subsequently reconstruct the pavement, as well as patching and resurfacing it.
That project is the least expensive of the three, at $9.6 million.
The three projects are a part of ten total projects, at a cost of $280.1 million.
“We haven’t been able to do this amount of work in the Peoria area in a long time,” Wappel said.
“The projects don’t happen overnight.”
A fact sheet about all ten projects follows:
