Illinois DOT launches website on Interstate 80 reconstruction

The Illinois Division of Transportation launched a brand new web site, I80will.org, to supply the general public with the most recent data on the $1.2 billion reconstruction of Interstate 80 by Will County.

The web site contains these options:

• Updates on ongoing coordination with communities to reduce development results on the general public.
• A mission data middle, that includes reviews, newsletters and solutions to regularly requested questions.
• Mission information, maps and different data detailing the most recent developments.
• Earlier planning and stakeholder outreach data in addition to mission reviews.
• Development schedule data and timeline for every portion of the mission.
• Assembly bulletins and the chance to join mission information, visitors and detour alerts, and submit questions and feedback.
• Picture and video galleries to view development progress.

As one of many nation’s three coast-to-coast interstates, Interstate 80 by Joliet and Will County carries roughly 80,000 autos a day, about 25% of that are vans.

“Our dedication to fixing the Interstate 80 hall includes one of the advanced stretches of interstate in your entire nation,” Illinois Transportation Secretary Omer Osman stated in an announcement. “The brand new web site, I80will.org, will present the general public with a one-stop store to search out the most recent data on how the mission is progressing and what they’ll do to efficiently navigate the following a number of years of development.”

Advance work on Interstate 80 began final yr with a $41.7 million mission to interchange the eastbound bridges over Hickory Creek, Richards Avenue and Rowell Avenue/Canadian Nationwide Railroad, and westbound over Richards Avenue, in Joliet, Rockdale and New Lenox, whereas widening eastbound Interstate 80 from Gardner Avenue to Rowell Avenue. As soon as the eastbound enhancements are accomplished later this yr, comparable enhancements will start within the westbound course.

As soon as all work is full in 2027, the general Interstate 80 mission may have redesigned and rebuilt 16 miles from Ridge Street in Minooka to U.S. 30 in New Lenox, whereas including or extending auxiliary lanes to enhance security and cut back congestion. Interchanges may have been rebuilt or improved at Interstate 55, Larkin Avenue (Illinois 7), Heart Avenue, Chicago Avenue (U.S. 52/Illinois 53), Richards Avenue and Briggs Avenue, with a brand new flyover ramp linking southbound Interstate 55 to westbound Interstate 80 to enhance visitors movement and security. Greater than 30 bridges may have been rehabilitated or changed.

Handed in 2019, Rebuild Illinois is investing $33.2 billion into the state’s getting older transportation system, creating jobs, and selling financial development. Rebuild Illinois just isn’t solely the biggest capital program in state historical past, but in addition the primary one which touches all modes of Illinois transportation: roads and bridges, transit, waterways, freight and passenger rail, aviation, and bicycle and pedestrian lodging. LL