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Started by Revive 755, June 05, 2013, 10:38:30 PM

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ilpt4u

Quote from: Alps on July 11, 2022, 12:25:40 AM
With the answers above - does Illinois have unnumbered state maintained roads at all? A few states do that...
Southern end of the state, but Herrin Rd in Williamson County has the IDOT-standard county mile markers, and "908"  as the route# on the markers


paulthemapguy

Quote from: ilpt4u on July 11, 2022, 10:31:15 AM
Quote from: Alps on July 11, 2022, 12:25:40 AM
With the answers above - does Illinois have unnumbered state maintained roads at all? A few states do that...
Southern end of the state, but Herrin Rd in Williamson County has the IDOT-standard county mile markers, and "908"  as the route# on the markers

Bill Burmaster has a whole page devoted to listing these unsigned state-maintained roads, identified only by their state-issue mile markers. http://www.billburmaster.com/rmsandw/illinois/misc/il900.html
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Quote from: paulthemapguy on July 12, 2022, 04:03:46 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on July 11, 2022, 10:31:15 AM
Quote from: Alps on July 11, 2022, 12:25:40 AM
With the answers above - does Illinois have unnumbered state maintained roads at all? A few states do that...
Southern end of the state, but Herrin Rd in Williamson County has the IDOT-standard county mile markers, and "908"  as the route# on the markers

Bill Burmaster has a whole page devoted to listing these unsigned state-maintained roads, identified only by their state-issue mile markers. http://www.billburmaster.com/rmsandw/illinois/misc/il900.html
Okay, but they're numbered. I did ask about unnumbered (:

ilpt4u

Quote from: paulthemapguy on July 12, 2022, 04:03:46 PM
Quote from: ilpt4u on July 11, 2022, 10:31:15 AM
Quote from: Alps on July 11, 2022, 12:25:40 AM
With the answers above - does Illinois have unnumbered state maintained roads at all? A few states do that...
Southern end of the state, but Herrin Rd in Williamson County has the IDOT-standard county mile markers, and "908"  as the route# on the markers

Bill Burmaster has a whole page devoted to listing these unsigned state-maintained roads, identified only by their state-issue mile markers. http://www.billburmaster.com/rmsandw/illinois/misc/il900.html
908 is not listed. And yes, I am familiar with that list on billburmaster's site. There are others is my bigger point

These routes are unnumbered in the sense that they are not IL State Route ###. But yes, the reference mile markers have the "number"  if you want to look at it that way

JoePCool14

There's plenty of other IDOT-maintained roads in Cook County though without any sort of numerical identification. Willow/Palatine Rd, Wolf Rd, Central Rd, Kensington-Foundry Rd, Sheridan Rd, Green Bay Rd (south of the southern terminus of IL-131), and many, many more.

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Revive 755

^ Cook County seems to have the greatest number of unnumbered IDOT routes in Chicagoland, with a number of them that change jurisdiction at the county line.

For Lake County, using https://www.lakecountyil.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1171/County-Highway-Map-PDF
* Midlothian Road (part of former IL 63)
* Parts of Sheridan Road (part of former IL 42
* Grand Avenue in Waukegan (formerly part of IL 132 yet not fully transferred to Waukegan)
* Belivdere Road in Waukegan (formerly part of IL 120 yet not fully transferred to Waukegan)
* Petersen Road between IL 137 and US 45
* Barrington Road between the southern US 12/IL 59 interchange and IL 176
* Ivanhoe Road between IL 120 and the IL 83 intersection with IL 137
* One of the roads into Illinois Beach State Park

For Kane County, mostly going off of http://kdot.countyofkane.org/Publications/2017-2018%20Hwy%20Map%20UPDATE%20March%202018.pdf.
* McLean Boulevard in South Elgin between IL 31 and Spring Street
* Villa Street in Elgin between IL 25 and the Cook County line (former US 20, then a US 20 auxiliary route)
* It's not shown on the map, but I believe Hill Avenue in the Montgomery/Aurora area is still an unmarked IDOT route between the Kendall County line (and extending to the US 30-US 34 intersection and Montgomery Road (IIRC Hill Avenue was once part of US 30).

For McHenry County using https://www.mchenrycountyil.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/10593/634968763771830000
* Part of Lake Street in southeast Woodstock (probably once part of US 14, I think more of Lake Street was turned over since the map was made).

hobsini2

In Aurora, the intersection of Farnsworth Ave and Indian Trail Rd is having temporary signals installed as of yesterday, July 14th, so they can modernize the signals.
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Revive 755

Quote from: hobsini2 on July 15, 2022, 10:46:23 AM
In Aurora, the intersection of Farnsworth Ave and Indian Trail Rd is having temporary signals installed as of yesterday, July 14th, so they can modernize the signals.

Based on Pages 58/124 and 60/124 of https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9615.400#quickreply, the temp signal appears to be more for reconstruction the bridge on Farnsworth north of Indian Trail than for a modernization.

In regards to signal modernizations in Aurora, per https://www.aurora-il.org/2365/Indian-Trail-from-Edgelawn-Dr-to-Highlan it look like Aurora may be the first city to start using flashing yellow arrows in the Illinois portion of the Chicago region.

hobsini2

Quote from: Revive 755 on July 15, 2022, 11:30:03 PM
Quote from: hobsini2 on July 15, 2022, 10:46:23 AM
In Aurora, the intersection of Farnsworth Ave and Indian Trail Rd is having temporary signals installed as of yesterday, July 14th, so they can modernize the signals.

Based on Pages 58/124 and 60/124 of https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9615.400#quickreply, the temp signal appears to be more for reconstruction the bridge on Farnsworth north of Indian Trail than for a modernization.

In regards to signal modernizations in Aurora, per https://www.aurora-il.org/2365/Indian-Trail-from-Edgelawn-Dr-to-Highlan it look like Aurora may be the first city to start using flashing yellow arrows in the Illinois portion of the Chicago region.
The flashing yellow arrows have been in place on Orchard Rd from Illinois Ave to I-88 in Aurora and Randall Rd through Batavia up into Elgin for about a year now.
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Quote from: hobsini2 on July 18, 2022, 12:01:09 PM
Quote from: Revive 755 on July 15, 2022, 11:30:03 PM
Quote from: hobsini2 on July 15, 2022, 10:46:23 AM
In Aurora, the intersection of Farnsworth Ave and Indian Trail Rd is having temporary signals installed as of yesterday, July 14th, so they can modernize the signals.

Based on Pages 58/124 and 60/124 of https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9615.400#quickreply, the temp signal appears to be more for reconstruction the bridge on Farnsworth north of Indian Trail than for a modernization.

In regards to signal modernizations in Aurora, per https://www.aurora-il.org/2365/Indian-Trail-from-Edgelawn-Dr-to-Highlan it look like Aurora may be the first city to start using flashing yellow arrows in the Illinois portion of the Chicago region.
The flashing yellow arrows have been in place on Orchard Rd from Illinois Ave to I-88 in Aurora and Randall Rd through Batavia up into Elgin for about a year now.

Those are all Kane County Division of Transportation installations.  These bids being let appear to be the first IDOT District 1 installations.
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Quote from: Revive 755 on July 15, 2022, 11:30:03 PM
Based on Pages 58/124 and 60/124 of https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=9615.400#quickreply, the temp signal appears to be more for reconstruction the bridge on Farnsworth north of Indian Trail than for a modernization.

In regards to signal modernizations in Aurora, per https://www.aurora-il.org/2365/Indian-Trail-from-Edgelawn-Dr-to-Highlan it look like Aurora may be the first city to start using flashing yellow arrows in the Illinois portion of the Chicago region.

The word "city" should be emphasized.  Though this is posted on the state website, this is a municipal project (after all, Indian Trail Rd. is a municipal street).
If you look on the page, it says "federal funds will be used for construction". You could discern this by the fact that the project is posted for bidding on the IDOT website. Any project on a municipal or county level that utilizes a high enough proportion of federal funding has to be bid through the state system; that's why we're seeing it listed on IDOT's page and broadcasting it in this thread. Funding will probably come from a combination of municipal and federal sources (Aurora surely gets an allotment of the state's motor fuel tax money, too).  You may see the funding sources broken down by pay item in a schedule of quantities in the project plans, even.
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Revive 755

Quote from: paulthemapguy on July 18, 2022, 07:54:29 PM
Though this is posted on the state website, this is a municipal project (after all, Indian Trail Rd. is a municipal street).
If you look on the page, it says "federal funds will be used for construction". You could discern this by the fact that the project is posted for bidding on the IDOT website. Any project on a municipal or county level that utilized federal funding has to be bid through the state system; that's why we're seeing it listed on IDOT's page and broadcasting it in this thread.

I think there are a few exceptions to federal projects having to be state-let.  I can't recall seeing anything lead by Cook County on the IDOT lettings, and maybe only one project where Chicago was the lead.

paulthemapguy

I edited my original post. I think it has to do with the proportion of funding that's federally-sourced.
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Revive 755

List of projects for the September 23, 2022 Letting is up.

* Item 1:  "4.686 miles Advance Tree Removal at I-39/US20 System Interchange"

* Item 8 is resurfacing on I-280 from east of IL 92 to near the overpass for the Milan Beltway.

* Item 13 is sidewak and lighting work on Business 55 from Sangamon Avenue to Ardmore Avenue in the Springfield area.

* Item 17 is intersection improvements for the IL 59 intersection with Joliet Street and Edgewood Walk and the IL 59 intersection with James Avenue in West Chicago.

* Item 52 is supposedly for a traffic signal installation and crosswalk improvements where Montgomery Road crosses the Virgil Gilman Trail in Montgomery, but I'm only see an RRFB in the pay item listing.

* Item 53 reconstruction IL 71 from around IL 126 to Orchard Road.

* Item 54 reconstruction Hobbie Avenue between IL 17 and IL 50 in Kankakee.

* Item 61 is lighting work for the Edens Expressway between Lincoln Avenue and Lake Cook Road.

paulthemapguy

Quote from: Revive 755 on August 19, 2022, 10:56:33 PM
* Item 1:  "4.686 miles Advance Tree Removal at I-39/US20 System Interchange"
Hmm...I wonder what THIS is in preparation for? Interchange reconfiguration?

Quote from: Revive 755 on August 19, 2022, 10:56:33 PM
* Item 53 reconstruction IL 71 from around IL 126 to Orchard Road.
Fun fact: I used to work for IDOT as a summer help between years of college.  In summer 2010, I was tasked to join a resident engineer on a reconstruction and widening in this same stretch of IL-71.  The project got shelved or scrapped, so I drove around with this guy doing nothing for a few weeks as we waited for an answer on whether the project would get started.  The project was scrapped so I was reassigned somewhere else.  Now a reconstruction and widening project has been let yet again for this stretch of IL-71; let's hope it gets constructed this time, 13+ years later!
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JoePCool14

Quote from: Revive 755 on August 19, 2022, 10:56:33 PM
List of projects for the September 23, 2022 Letting is up.

* Item 61 is lighting work for the Edens Expressway between Lincoln Avenue and Lake Cook Road.

This is minor but I wonder if we'll get new mile markers for this section. The current ones are these old stickers on the existing light poles on the median, many of which are peeling or completely gone. If they're replacing the poles, then surely they'll have to install new mile markers of some kind.

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Quote from: paulthemapguy on August 20, 2022, 12:48:06 AM
Fun fact: I used to work for IDOT as a summer help between years of college.  In summer 2010, I was tasked to join a resident engineer on a reconstruction and widening in this same stretch of IL-71.  The project got shelved or scrapped, so I drove around with this guy doing nothing for a few weeks as we waited for an answer on whether the project would get started.  The project was scrapped so I was reassigned somewhere else.  Now a reconstruction and widening project has been let yet again for this stretch of IL-71; let's hope it gets constructed this time, 13+ years later!
I was at IDOT District 3 until 2009. The entire stretch of IL 71 from IL 47 to Orchard was studied as one piece in planning, but it was broken into two projects at one point due to a lack of funding, and the short stretch from IL 47 to IL 126 got redone first. The Rebuild Illinois bond program allowed the second stretch from IL 126 to Orchard to go to construction. When this project is completed, the major projects in the area will be to add lanes to IL 47 at the south end and north end of Yorkville to eliminate the bottlenecks between adjacent 4-lane sections. Both sections will have some challenges - the south section will need to rebuild the IL 71/47 intersection under traffic and the north section will need to rebuild a BNSF underpass that will add a 3rd track.

I did notice that IDOT also added a substantial IL 126 project to the new Multi-Year program.

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Quote from: JoePCool14 on August 20, 2022, 07:22:04 AM
Quote from: Revive 755 on August 19, 2022, 10:56:33 PM
List of projects for the September 23, 2022 Letting is up.

* Item 61 is lighting work for the Edens Expressway between Lincoln Avenue and Lake Cook Road.

This is minor but I wonder if we'll get new mile markers for this section. The current ones are these old stickers on the existing light poles on the median, many of which are peeling or completely gone. If they're replacing the poles, then surely they'll have to install new mile markers of some kind.

Sadly, I used to like having those mile markers on the poles, it was an effective way, IMO, of making two uses of the materials. Another thought on this, and that is if they are intending on replacing the poles, I really hope they don't plan to switch to the davit style (i.e. candy cane poles) that has been popping up increasingly throughout D1. I always appreciated the classic aluminum truss style in Illinois, and the other style makes it look less like something in Illinois and more like Minnesota (nothing against Minnesota, but I just prefer Illinois stick with its classic style). I'm hoping that maybe they're just planning to replace the luminares with LED lamps.

Revive 755

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Quote from: JoePCool14 on August 20, 2022, 07:22:04 AM
Quote from: Revive 755 on August 19, 2022, 10:56:33 PM
List of projects for the September 23, 2022 Letting is up.

* Item 61 is lighting work for the Edens Expressway between Lincoln Avenue and Lake Cook Road.

This is minor but I wonder if we'll get new mile markers for this section. The current ones are these old stickers on the existing light poles on the median, many of which are peeling or completely gone. If they're replacing the poles, then surely they'll have to install new mile markers of some kind.

There's a pay item listed called 'Mile Post Maker Assembly (Special) with a quantity of 22.

EDIT:  The plans have been posted - they have the enhanced milemarkers used elsewhere in Illinois.

Revive 755

List of projects for the November 18, 2022 Letting is up

* Item 2 appears to be an advance staging contract for I-80 from east of Ridge Road to east of River Road around Minooka.

* Item 6 replaces the Wheeler Avenue bridge over I-80 in the Joliet area.

* Item 27 rehabs and repaints the IL 17 bridge over the Illinois River.

* Item 28 appears to be a bridge rehab for IL 40 over the Illinois River.

* Item 47 is bridge repairs for US 51 over I-70.

* Item 63 replaces the Shepley Road bridge over I-80.

* Item 67 replaces the Perryville Road bridge over I-39 in the Rockford area.

* Item 81 replaces the Washington Street bridge in downtown Naperville.

* Item 101:  "Reconstruction and widening of Laraway Road between Jackson Branch Creek and Cedar Road" in Will County.

* Item 107 reconstructs Stanford Avenue on the south side of Springfield between 11th Street and Fox Bridge Road.

* Item 108 is some sort of relocation of Lebanon Road in Madison County.

paulthemapguy

Quote from: Revive 755 on October 17, 2022, 10:37:17 PM
List of projects for the November 18, 2022 Letting is up
* Item 101:  "Reconstruction and widening of Laraway Road between Jackson Branch Creek and Cedar Road" in Will County.

A large amount of Laraway Road is slated for widening projects in the coming 5-10 years.  The first piece of this massive slew of widening is wrapping right now, with the intersection project centered on Cedar and Laraway Roads.  It looks like the piece adjoining that to the west might be next to be built.
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Quote from: paulthemapguy on October 18, 2022, 04:18:19 PM

Quote from: Revive 755 on October 17, 2022, 10:37:17 PM
List of projects for the November 18, 2022 Letting is up
* Item 101:  "Reconstruction and widening of Laraway Road between Jackson Branch Creek and Cedar Road" in Will County.

A large amount of Laraway Road is slated for widening projects in the coming 5-10 years.  The first piece of this massive slew of widening is wrapping right now, with the intersection project centered on Cedar and Laraway Roads.  It looks like the piece adjoining that to the west might be next to be built.

Still seems crazy to me.  I grew up 1½ blocks from Cedar Road as a young child, and I remember when Cedar/Laraway was an intersection of two farm roads.
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Quote from: Revive 755 on October 17, 2022, 10:37:17 PM
List of projects for the November 18, 2022 Letting is up

* Item 81 replaces the Washington Street bridge in downtown Naperville.


It is already underway. Washington is down to one lane in each direction over the DuPage River.
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Revive 755

Quote from: hobsini2 on October 18, 2022, 09:39:02 PM
Quote from: Revive 755 on October 17, 2022, 10:37:17 PM
List of projects for the November 18, 2022 Letting is up

* Item 81 replaces the Washington Street bridge in downtown Naperville.


It is already underway. Washington is down to one lane in each direction over the DuPage River.

Those lane closures are due to the condition of the current bridge, see https://www.naperville.il.us/projects-in-naperville/downtown-washington-street-bridge-replacement-project/

Revive 755

List of projects for the January 20, 2023 Letting is up.  Of note:

* Item 1 is bridge work for IL 53 between St. Charles Road and IL 64/North Avenue.

* Item 44 is a resurfacing of York Road in Elmhurst with some sort of intersection improvements at the intersection with Belden Avenue and Industrial Drive.

* Item 47 is intersection work for Park at Devon and Park at Pierce in Itasca.

* Item 62 (already deleted) looks like it would have been some sort of reconstruction for US 40 through Effingham.

* Item 82 adds a high friction surface treatment for eastbound I-290 near I-88, the WB I-290 to EB I-90 ramp, and the WB I-90 to NB IL 53 ramp.

* Item 93 is deck patch and joint work for the ramp from WB I-290 to SB I-355.

* Item 104: "10.8 miles of reconstruction/rehabilitation on I-64 from 0.3 miles east of Shiloh Road to just east of the Washington County line."

* Item 105 appears to be an extension of Dauberman Road in Kane County with new bridges over US 30 and the nearby railroad.

* Item 124 adds a new roundabout at a "4-way intersection" somewhere along Wolf's Crossing Road in Kendall County.

* Item 130 converts the National Parkway - American Lane intersection in Schaumburg to a roundabout, along with reconstruction of National Parkway up to Golf Road.

* Item 136 reconstructs Old Galena Road from IL 29 to Neal Lane in Peoria County, with a small gap within those limits.

* Item 137:  "Reconstruct North Buchanan Street from East Union Street to Hillsboro Avenue in Edwaardsville."



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