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Oct. 15

Bloomington-Normal

-- New: Asphalt resurfacing will cause intermittent lane closures from today until Wednesday on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive between Dean Drive and Oak Park Road, and on White Oak Road between Industrial Park Drive and Graham Street.

-- Broadway Avenue between College Avenue and North Street will be closed to all traffic until Friday for sanitary and storm sewer installation.

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

-- Beaufort between Fell Ave. and Constitution Trail is closed through early 2009. Beaufort between Fell and Broadway is closed through late 2008.

-- The intersection of Beaufort and Broadway is closed through approximately early 2009. Access to the drive that runs behind Wright’s Printing, Jimmy John’s, etc. is anticipated to remain open.

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

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

-- Towanda Avenue between Emerson Street and Jersey Avenue in Bloomington is closed for an undetermined time.

-- Interstate 55 will be resurfaced from Interstate 39 at Normal to Veterans Parkway interchange until Nov. 30. Also, significant delays are expected in this area as workers install raised reflective pavement markers. Work on that should be complete by Nov. 30.

-- The driving lane will be closed on both east- and westbound sides of Interstate 74 from Interstate 55 to east of U.S. 51 in Bloomington for pavement patching until Oct. 30.

-- Hovey Avenue between White Oak Road and Parkside Road will be closed to through traffic for three weeks for pavement work beginning today.

Central Illinois

-- New: U.S. 51 will be closed at the Illinois Central Railroad crossing west of Clinton for five to seven days, beginning Oct. 22. A detour will be marked.

-- Interstate 74 is reduced to one lane in each direction at the Kickapoo Creek bridge near Downs. The westbound bridge is being rebuilt until Nov. 30.

-- 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.

-- Carlock weigh station is being rehabilitated on Interstate 74 until November.

-- Interstate 39 will be reduced to one lane on both north- and southbound sides from three miles south of Illinois 116 to one mile north of Illinois 116 for patching and overlay until May.

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oh now come on! wrote on Oct 15, 2007 11:25 AM:

" How can you not know when you are going to open Towanda Ave. This is getting to be stupid! "

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