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DIXON – The Illinois Department of Transportation and the governor released the list of projects in their 6-year capital plan Monday, including $61 million worth of work in Lee and Whiteside counties.
The road map for the Rebuild Illinois capital plan includes transportation improvements estimated to cost $23.5 billion for construction on 4,212 miles of roadway and 9.2 million square feet of bridge deck statewide.
“All together, these road and bridge projects will create and support hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next 5 years for hardworking Illinoisans in every part of our state,” Gov. JB Pritzker said in a news release. “Illinois has some of the most important roads in America; let’s make them outlast and outperform those across the nation.”
In Whiteside County, the plan includes 34 projects across 39.5 miles at a cost of about $42.3 million, and in Lee County, 17 projects are earmarked across the next 5 years spanning 25.5 miles and totaling about $18.78 million.
Most of the work will take place from fiscal years 2021 to 2025.
Projects slated for the Sauk Valley include:
Whiteside County
• resurfacing and patching 3 miles on Interstate 88 slightly northeast of 122nd Avenue and Fargo Road to slightly east of Sand Road for $5.58 million as well as improving drainage east of Sand Road for $250,000.
• resurfacing U.S. Route 30 west of state Route 40 to 0.4 miles south in Rock Falls for $1.25 million in fiscal year 2020.
• resurfacing U.S. Route 30 slightly east of state Route 40 in Rock Falls to the Lee County line for $2.6 million.
• road reconstruction, ADA and traffic signal improvements to state Route 2 from Fourth to Second avenues in Sterling for $1.2 million and acquiring land for $50,000.
• road reconstruction, resurfacing, ADA improvements, utility work and land acquisition on state Route 40 from Lynn Boulevard to LeFevre Road in Sterling for $5 million.
• resurfacing 12.7 miles of state Route 40 about half a mile south of Interstate 88 to state Route 92 for $5.4 million.
• repairing the bridge on U.S. Route 30 over the Mississippi River 1 mile west of state Route 84 for $1.5 million.
• resurfacing and patching 6.3 miles of U.S. Route 30 from French Creek Road east of Morrison to Emerson Road for $2.3 million in fiscal year 2020.
• resurfacing and replacing culverts on state Route 78 from the Carroll County line to U.S. Route 30 for about $5.6 million.
• road reconstruction, ADA improvements, utility work, railroad crossing improvements and land acquisition on state Route 78 from slightly south of U.S. Route 30 to Academic Drive in Morrison for about $4.5 million.
• bridge resurfacing, painting and joint repairs on state Route 78 over the Rock River north of Prophetstown for $1 million.
• resurfacing and new shoulders on state Route 84 from U.S. Route 30 to north of 10th Avenue north of Albany for $3.5 million.
Lee County
• resurfacing and patching to state Route 26 from Bloody Gulch Road to U.S. Route 30 for $2 million in fiscal year 2020.
• resurfacing, patching, ADA and traffic signal improvements to state Route 2 from west of Page Drive to Galena Avenue for $940,000.
• resurfacing, patching and ADA improvements to 10 miles of U.S. Route 52 from Water Street in Amboy to North of Henkel Road in Sublette Township for $4.45 million.
• resurfacing and patching about 10 miles of U.S. Route 52 from Wilson Street in Polo to state Route 26 ending at Liberty Court in Dixon for 4.7 million in fiscal year 2020.
• ADA improvements to U.S. Route 52 in Amboy from Wasson Road to Water Street and on Main Street for $340,000.
• removing and replacing culverts 1.4 miles south of U.S. Route 30 to slightly north of Tower Road as well as land acquisition for about $1.6 million, and slightly west of Atkinson Road for $500,000.
• replacing bridges on Melugins Grove Road and Town Hall Road across ditches in U.S. Route 30 for $3 million as well as $400,000 of phase II engineering.
• replacing culverts on U.S. Route 52 slightly south of U.S. Route 30 north of Amboy for $600,000.