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All Tech Automotive - San Francisco Business Journal

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 08:54 PM PDT

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Spring roadwork begins to sprout - Chicago Tribune

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 07:59 AM PDT

It's not stacking up to become an unbearable year of roadwork for drivers within Chicago city limits — so long as you're willing to look beyond the construction fest that is about to begin on the Eisenhower Expressway, Wacker Drive and Congress Parkway.

Elsewhere, about 45 miles of Chicago streets are slated for resurfacing in 2010, according to the Chicago Department of Transportation. A final list of projects still is being developed and contracts have not been awarded yet, said CDOT spokesman Brian Steele, but work is expected to begin in the spring and run through the fall.

After several years of minimal street resurfacing in Chicago because of state funding shortfalls, dozens of projects were carried out last year using federal stimulus funds.

"The resurfacing helped CDOT address some of the most pothole-plagued sections of streets in the city, allowing pothole repair crews to focus on other areas in need," Steele said.

The biggest resurfacing projects set for this year, based on average daily traffic counts, are on:

• Lake Shore Drive, from Irving Park Road to Belmont Avenue.

•North Avenue, from Cicero to Central avenues.

•79th Street, from Western to Kedzie avenues.

•Cicero Avenue, from 71st to 79th streets.

•State Street, from Roosevelt Road to 18th Street.

•Chicago Avenue, from Laramie to Grand avenues.

Meanwhile, the state is completing its rehab of the Bishop Ford Freeway, which is the main link between Chicago, the southern suburbs and northwest Indiana.

Most of the highway, shoulder and ramp resurfacing and bridge work was done last year on the Bishop Ford (Interstate Highway 94) from King Drive on the north to 159th Street on the south.The cost was about $27.5 million in stimulus funds, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.

The new asphalt road surface, expected to last 10 to 15 years, "will buy us more time until the next reconstruction," said Jacek Tyszkiewicz, IDOT project implementation engineer for the Chicago area. The most recent partial resurfacing was done in 1998 on the heavily truck-traveled highway, officials said.

The resurfacing work on the 9-mile stretch of the Ford, formerly called the Calumet Expressway, started last May and is mostly completed, but crews still need to apply an anti-icing membrane on bridge decks, Tyszkiewicz said. It will require temporary night and weekend lane closures near the bridges, he said.

"We need to have good weather during the day — 50 to 55 degrees or warmer, and dry," said Tyszkiewicz, who is also overseeing the resurfacing of the Eisenhower (Interstate Highway 290) and the rehabilitation of the Congress Parkway bridge over the Chicago River.

Occasional night lane closures will occur on the Ford until mid-July to make room for crews to install detector loops in the pavement that are used to produce travel-time estimates, rumble strips on shoulders, raised pavement markers and other work.

There also will be one lane closed between Memorial Day and the Fourth of July for bridge work, resulting in only two lanes open in each direction, said IDOT spokeswoman Marisa Kollias.

The Eisenhower work will cover 27 miles from Thorndale Avenue to the Circle Interchange downtown, and on Interstate Highway 355 between Army Trail Road and I-290.

Eisenhower traffic will be reduced by one lane in each direction during repairs, which include replacing decking on 37 bridges, IDOT said. The $95 million project is scheduled for completion in the fall.

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