IL US 67 corridor meeting

[Lyon Wonder]

The Corridor 67 association held a meeting in the Jacksonville area.

Even though IDOT has done engineering studies on constructing the un-upgraded 2-lane sections of the US 67 corridor between Jerseyville and Roodhouse and west of Chapin to Macomb as a 4-lane expressway, no funding is currently allocated to actually do the construction.  Proponents of completing the 4-lane upgrade to US 67 think the motor fuel tax must be increased. 

The link also has audio of the Corridor 67 meeting.

http://wlds.com/news/corridor-67-meeting-contains-motor-fuel-tax-update-talk-on-future-of-highway/

[I-39]

Interesting.

Of course, don't expect any US 67 improvements to happen for a long time, because IDOT doesn't have money to do ANYTHING but barely maintain the roads as they are.

They should be focusing on this corridor rather than IL-336.

[adt1982]

There was another yearly corridor meeting in Jacksonville on Thursday.

The lack of funds hasn't changed since last year.

http://www.sj-r.com/news/20160826/progress-on-us-67-sputters-due-to-lack-of-funds