Delays for study of I-66 across southern Illinois

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http://www.semissourian.com/story/1940975.html

[codyg1985]

The Interstate 66 project through Southern Illinois is part of the East-West Transamerica Corridor, a national transportation plan first studied in the 1980s that would start in San Diego and end in Norfolk, Va.

So I guess I-66 in DC would just disappear? 

[NWI_Irish96]

The Transamerica Corridor would run from SD to Norfolk.  I-66 would not be the designation for the entire corridor.

[Rover_0]

I wonder how this works out if Kentucky decides to scrap their I-66 plan.

[3467]

I had heard maybe 20 years ago that there was a faction in IDOT that was obsessed with a Paducah to Cape Girardeau highway and the resposne from the politicos was"If Missouri and Kentucky want it we will build it ....if they pay for it "
The only road being pushed in far Southern Illinois is the widening of IL 127 a sort of replacement for the I-24 extension which was part of the old supplemental freeway system

[tidecat]

Part of the appeal behind the proposed I-66 extension was that Kentucky and Missouri have no direct link by road, and I-66 would have changed that.  A Paducah-Cape Girardeau route does not address that.

If such a route were built, though, it would provide the perfect opportunity to relocate I-24 by making it more of an east-west route rather than a north-south route from I-57 to Paducah-not that it would happen in real life.  There would also be plenty of available numbers should the route be built and the I-66 westward extension gets scrapped.

[vdeane]

I wonder how this works out if Kentucky decides to scrap their I-66 plan.

I thought they already had... it's pretty much as good as dead right now.  I think future building on that corridor is planned as parkway extensions.