Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks outside of the Illinois Department of Transportation building in Springfield Wednesday, announcing the state s multi-year road and bridge plan. PETER HANCOCK, CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD â Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday the release of a six-year, $20.7 billion construction plan to improve roads and bridges throughout the state, an annual process which the Illinois Department of Transportation oversees to target infrastructure spending.
The Highway Improvement Program, funded through the Rebuild Illinois capital infrastructure plan passed in 2019, will reconstruct nearly 2,779 miles more miles of roads and 7.9 million square feet of bridge deck between fiscal year 2022 and 2027, according to the governorâs office.
(The Center Square) – The Illinois Department of Transportation announced a 6-year, $20.7 billion highway improvement program. As part of the Rebuild Illinois capitol plan, 2,779 miles of roads and 7.9 million square fe.
By Jeremy Coumbes on May 19, 2021 at 5:12pm
West Central Illinois roads are set to see more improvements attributed to Rebuild Illinois.
Governor J.B. Pritzker along with the Illinois Department of Transportation announced a new six-year $20.7 billion infrastructure construction plan today.
Pritzker says the statewide plan will reinforce Illinois’ leadership as a transportation hub and create thousands of jobs as the state seeks to spur economic growth following the COVID-19 pandemic.
He says this latest multi-year plan builds on significant infrastructure investment over the past two years.
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With all that’s been built over the last two years, even through a global pandemic, today we are announcing the new Multi-Year Plan for the next six years that will reconstruct over 2,700 more miles of roads and nearly 8 million square feet of bridges. And of course, the projects in this MYP will continue to create and support hundreds of thousands of jobs for har
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SPRINGIELD In his first entirely maskless news conference since last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a $20.7 billion infrastructure plan Wednesday to improve Illinois roads and bridges over the next six years.
Under the governor’s plan, 2,779 miles of Illinois roads and 7.9 million square feet of the state’s bridges will be redone or created anew. This adds to the 290 bridges and 2,700 miles of road that have been worked on since Pritzker’s Rebuild Illinois plan was passed in 2019.
“The projects in this multi-year plan will continue to create and support hundreds of thousands of jobs for hardworking Illinoisans across our state bolstering our pandemic recovery in yet one more way,” Pritzker said.
The state transportation department s plans to repair roads and bridges over the next six years includes at least $448 million of major work in the Peoria area.
On deck are multimillion-dollar improvements to the Cedar Street Bridge, a widening of U.S. Route 24 in Peoria and Fulton counties, and reconstruction of nearly 3 miles of Galena Road along the Illinois River through Peoria and Peoria Heights.
Pritzker said the six-year highway plan, which is updated annually, will be funded in part by the six-year Rebuild Illinois capital program. That $45 billion, six-year program was enacted through a package of bills passed by the General Assembly on a bipartisan basis in 2019 and signed into law by the Democratic governor.