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Aug. 27

Bloomington-Normal

1. The westbound lane of Eastland Drive, from Veterans Parkway to Fairway Drive, will be closed for a water main repair.

2. Various streets in uptown Normal are affected by the Marriott hotel project.

2. Broadway Avenue between Phoenix Avenue and North Street will be closed to through traffic Monday until further notice (likely spring 2009) for Marriott and infrastructure improvements.

2. Beaufort between Broadway and Constitution Trail is closed through late 2008. Beaufort between Fell and Broadway is closed through late 2008.

2. Constitution Trail between Mulberry and the railroad tracks is closed through late 2008.

3. Road construction has started at Dr. Martin Luther King Drive between Market Street and Lake Trail Road. Property remains accessible but construction equipment

will be in the area.

3. Road construction has started at White Oak Road between Graham Street and Industrial Park Drive. Property remains accessible but construction equipment will be in the area.

4. Brokaw Road will be closed to through traffic for several months from Towanda Barnes Road to Abraham Road for sewer construction. Abraham Road will be closed to through traffic for four- to six weeks from Ireland Grove Road to U.S. 150 for sewer construction.

5. U.S. 150 is being resurfaced from Kickapoo Creek bridge near Downs to North Hemlock Street in LeRoy until Thursday; the Carlock weigh station is being rehabbed.

6. Hovey Avenue is closed to through traffic between Cottage Avenue and Park Place and at the Hovey Avenue/Bone Drive intersection. The closure is for pavement replacement.

7. Towanda Avenue between Emerson Street and Jersey Avenue in Bloomington will be closed starting Aug. 1 and for an undetermined time.

8. U.S. 51 southbound, from Empire to Locust streets, will be reduced to one lane for cold milling and resurfacing. Work should be done in late August.

8. U.S. 150, from Locust to Empire streets, will be reduced to one lane until late August.

9. Interstate 55 will be resurfaced from I-39 at Normal to the Veterans Parkway interchange until November.

Central Illinois

-- Interstate 74 is reduced to one lane in each direction at the Kickapoo Creek bridge until further notice while the westbound bridge is being rebuilt.

-- Danvers/Carlock Road is closed from 5397 E. 2050 North Road to 600 East Road, and 500 East Road from 1950 North Road to 20161 N. 500 East Road until further notice. Danvers/Carlock Road will be closed from North Street in Danvers to the I-74 interchange at Carlock through Oct. 31.

-- PJ Keller Highway at the Lexington Interstate 55 interchange will be under construction through September.

-- I-55 bridges between Towanda and Lexington are being repainted overnight.

-- The Illinois 165 bridge over a ditch two miles west of Colfax was closed July 5 for emergency repairs. There is a marked detour along Illinois 9 and McLean County Highway 15. The repair time is unclear.

-- Illinois 10 will be closed 0.4 mile west of Clinton for bridge work until Sept. 30. One lane of U.S. 51 is closed from the north edge of Clinton to Illinois 10.

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Note: All views and opinions expressed in reader comments are solely those of the individual submitting the comment, and not those of the Pantagraph or its staff.

Suzy wrote on Aug 27, 2007 12:34 PM:

" Are they ever going to get Wood Street done? "

Chelly wrote on Aug 27, 2007 8:39 AM:

" Eastland drive has been opened for at least 2 weeks now. How did you all miss College Ave getting closed last week and looks like it will be closed again soon near the library. Any idea what is going on with that? "

not really wrote on Aug 27, 2007 7:37 AM:

" much of an 'update'..... seems like its saying the same thing as the last one to me.... "
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