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Brandon:
--- Quote from: Rick Powell on November 01, 2013, 10:18:47 AM ---IL 47 reconstruction and add-lanes through Yorkville is well underway with the old retaining wall by the courthouse gone (the wall was an ugly landmark) and several buildings removed. Most of the big storm sewer has been put in place on the south side of the Fox River, and new Northbound concrete pavement is in place for several blocks (traffic is still squeezed to the west side with about 18 feet of clearance for both lanes). Like the previous IL 47 project in Huntley, it's a nice drive-through if you're looking for construction activity, but a route you'd want to avoid in the AM and PM if you're just travelling.
Later this month, IDOT will be taking bids for reconstruction and adding lanes to IL 47 in Grundy County, from Morris north to the county line.
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I've noticed (I work in Yorkville, south of downtown), and I try to avoid that area whenever possible. It can take as long a half an hour to get through downtown Yorkville right now due to the construction. It will be nice when finished, and I have noticed concrete being laid just south of the bridge. The best detour route is to go east on IL-71 to Orchard Road, and then back west on US-34.
IL-47 really needs the widening, but the Prairie Parkway would've been a great addition for the increasing truck traffic. I predict that IL-47, merely widened by itself, will be outdated and overburdened within five years. It's a popular truck route from the intermodal yards in Joliet and Elwood to I-88 and north.
Rick Powell:
--- Quote from: Brandon on November 01, 2013, 10:45:37 AM ---I've noticed (I work in Yorkville, south of downtown), and I try to avoid that area whenever possible. It can take as long a half an hour to get through downtown Yorkville right now due to the construction. It will be nice when finished, and I have noticed concrete being laid just south of the bridge. The best detour route is to go east on IL-71 to Orchard Road, and then back west on US-34.
IL-47 really needs the widening, but the Prairie Parkway would've been a great addition for the increasing truck traffic. I predict that IL-47, merely widened by itself, will be outdated and overburdened within five years. It's a popular truck route from the intermodal yards in Joliet and Elwood to I-88 and north.
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There is also increased engineering activity in other parts of the IL 47 corridor. In District 3, IDOT is working on design plans for IL 47 from Grundy County line to Caton Farm Road, planning studies for IL 47 from Caton Farm to IL 71 and also from north Yorkville to Sugar Grove, and the tollway is moving fast on designing the IL 47 and I-88 conversion to a full-access interchange. In District 1, IDOT continues with planning studies for the Huntley to Woodstock and through Woodstock sections, and Kane County seems to be moving to build the Anderson Road bypass (which could have been an IL 47 re-route around the east side of Elburn if development hadn't blocked the south connection).
JREwing78:
--- Quote from: UNDSIOUX on November 01, 2013, 05:25:53 AM ---FYI- as a regular user of I-90/I-39, the eastbound/southbound traffic between South Beloit and Rockton Road is now using the new pavement and you are no longer squeezed in sharing the westbound/northbound lanes. The third lane is still not open (on both sides) and there are plenty of barriers to move as well as restriping on both sides, but I don't see them taking more than a week or two to finish this.
But I fear they will drag this out and those 55 MPH signs will remain posted until Turkey Day travel week. :banghead:
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That's great news. I was getting tired of driving out of my way to avoid this stretch.
Revive 755:
--- Quote from: Rick Powell on November 01, 2013, 02:59:00 PM ---There is also increased engineering activity in other parts of the IL 47 corridor. In District 3, IDOT is working on design plans for IL 47 from Grundy County line to Caton Farm Road, planning studies for IL 47 from Caton Farm to IL 71 and also from north Yorkville to Sugar Grove, and the tollway is moving fast on designing the IL 47 and I-88 conversion to a full-access interchange. In District 1, IDOT continues with planning studies for the Huntley to Woodstock and through Woodstock sections, and Kane County seems to be moving to build the Anderson Road bypass (which could have been an IL 47 re-route around the east side of Elburn if development hadn't blocked the south connection).
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I think there was a request for consulting services from IDOT for contract plans for IL 47 through Woodstock recently, with a note that the project had many multi-lane roundabouts.
Anderson Road between IL 38 and Keslinger Road was on a state letting not that long ago; can't remember which one.
The print edition of the Daily Herald today (not finding an article online yet) mentioned in an article that ISTHA would study extending the fourth lane on I-355 south from 75th Street to the Boughton Road Toll Plaza.
Joe The Dragon:
--- Quote from: Revive 755 on November 14, 2013, 10:13:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rick Powell on November 01, 2013, 02:59:00 PM ---There is also increased engineering activity in other parts of the IL 47 corridor. In District 3, IDOT is working on design plans for IL 47 from Grundy County line to Caton Farm Road, planning studies for IL 47 from Caton Farm to IL 71 and also from north Yorkville to Sugar Grove, and the tollway is moving fast on designing the IL 47 and I-88 conversion to a full-access interchange. In District 1, IDOT continues with planning studies for the Huntley to Woodstock and through Woodstock sections, and Kane County seems to be moving to build the Anderson Road bypass (which could have been an IL 47 re-route around the east side of Elburn if development hadn't blocked the south connection).
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I think there was a request for consulting services from IDOT for contract plans for IL 47 through Woodstock recently, with a note that the project had many multi-lane roundabouts.
Anderson Road between IL 38 and Keslinger Road was on a state letting not that long ago; can't remember which one.
The print edition of the Daily Herald today (not finding an article online yet) mentioned in an article that ISTHA would study extending the fourth lane on I-355 south from 75th Street to the Boughton Road Toll Plaza.
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they should also add one up to I-290
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