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hobsini2:
Will County has recently started officially signing the county highways, at least in my part of Will County. There are now signs along Naper-Plainfield Rd (Hwy 14), Weber Rd (Hwy 88), Hassert Blvd (Hwy 66) and Kings Rd/95th St (Hwy 89).
Is this something the state has told the counties to start doing? Kendall County did their highways last year.
Some of these should be extended to a more logical end even if the jurisdiction is a municipality. For instance, Hwy 89's designation ends after the bridge over the DuPage River instead of ending at Boughton Rd.
A number of these could also be consolidated into a single number.
For instance, Arsenal Rd (Hwy 17), Manhattan-Monee Rd (Hwy 6) and Crete-Monee Rd (Hwy 21) could be one number simply by cosigning with US 52 and Illinois 50. Wisconsin does this with their county highways.
Here is the Will County Highway Map for reference.
https://www.willcountyillinois.com/County-Offices/Economic-Development/Division-of-Transportation/Highway-System
paulthemapguy:
--- Quote from: hobsini2 on June 04, 2023, 08:42:15 PM ---Will County has recently started officially signing the county highways, at least in my part of Will County. There are now signs along Naper-Plainfield Rd (Hwy 14), Weber Rd (Hwy 88), Hassert Blvd (Hwy 66) and Kings Rd/95th St (Hwy 89).
Is this something the state has told the counties to start doing? Kendall County did their highways last year.
Some of these should be extended to a more logical end even if the jurisdiction is a municipality. For instance, Hwy 89's designation ends after the bridge over the DuPage River instead of ending at Boughton Rd.
A number of these could also be consolidated into a single number.
For instance, Arsenal Rd (Hwy 17), Manhattan-Monee Rd (Hwy 6) and Crete-Monee Rd (Hwy 21) could be one number simply by cosigning with US 52 and Illinois 50. Wisconsin does this with their county highways.
Here is the Will County Highway Map for reference.
https://www.willcountyillinois.com/County-Offices/Economic-Development/Division-of-Transportation/Highway-System
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Will County decided it was finally time to catch up to the other counties in the area. The sign crew completed the rollout of the pentagons around the second or third week of May. I have lots of thoughts and stories about Will County highways. Previous leadership had the tendency to pawn off any section of highway that a municipality wanted to exert their will upon, which I honestly kind of understand. One recent and poignant example is how Bolingbrook wanted to do whatever they wanted with the intersection of 95th and Alan Deatherage (what a hardcore last name), so the County said "fine you can maintain the road yourself, too, then." That's why the county highway designation ends at the southeast bridge abutment (over the DuPage River). The county highway system needs more consistent connectivity though, especially for the sake of establishing consistent truck routes. I have a whole proposal on how to revamp the county highway system to enhance connectivity and make things more intuitive, but I am sure the higher-ups will never take it seriously.
I wonder if there's any other county in Illinois with county highway numbers that go as high as 90.
paulthemapguy:
Kendall County has gotten on the Flashing Yellow Arrow train! These two new signals have recently been built just north of I-80 on Ridge Road (Kendall County Highway 11) near Minooka.
IL-Y-CKE11SN by Paul Drives, on Flickr
IL-Y-CKE11NN by Paul Drives, on Flickr
The Kendall County Highway Department doesn't have a lot of signals to manage in general, with the overwhelming majority of their mileage in rural areas. Ridge and Orchard are probably the only two roads with signals maintained by them. Still, this is an impressive development! Note that this is within IDOT District 3, whose approval is needed for plans like this. I wonder if more FYAs are happening in other areas around District 3.
Revive 755:
--- Quote from: paulthemapguy on June 09, 2023, 02:52:41 PM ---The Kendall County Highway Department doesn't have a lot of signals to manage in general, with the overwhelming majority of their mileage in rural areas. Ridge and Orchard are probably the only two roads with signals maintained by them. Still, this is an impressive development! Note that this is within IDOT District 3, whose approval is needed for plans like this. I wonder if more FYAs are happening in other areas around District 3.
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If the signal improvements were done using purely local funds versus state and/or federal funds, IDOT doesn't have much say unless the County flagrantly violates the MUTCD. Even then the most IDOT can do IIRC is threaten to withhold state and/or federal funding for future projects.
Great Lakes Roads:
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-39-il-route-38-interchange-project/article_52f759a8-1086-11ee-8257-a79258af0000.html
A new Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) will be coming to the IL Route 38 interchange on Interstate 39 in Rochelle.
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