State:                                      ILLINOIS

 

Agency:                                   ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION - DISTRICT 6                

 

Project and/or Route Name: F.A. ROUTE 302 (ILL. 336)                                                                               

                                                   ADAMS AND HANCOCK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS                                           

 

Dates:                                     1994 – 1997

 

Rural and/or Urban:              RURAL FREEWAY

 

Length:                                   23.5 KM (14.6 Miles)

 

Type of Improvement:          NEW DIVIDED FOUR-LANE FREEWAY WITH DIAMOND INTERCHANGE

 

Firm's Project Manager:       MICHAEL G. BRUCE, P.E., L.S., VICE PRESIDENT, FIRM PRINCIPAL      

Firm's Project Engineer:      THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, P.E., PROJECT DESIGN ENGINEER                    

Firm's Structural Engineer:  ROBERT B. QUISENBERRY, P.E., VICE PRESIDENT, FIRM PRINCIPAL

 

Project Description:

 

This project involved preparation of construction plans for the continuation of IL 336, a four-lane divided highway from and including a diamond interchange at IL 61 near Mendon north to a future interchange location of West Point Road.  The first construction section will provide for grading 17.4 Kms full-width and paving the southbound lanes for 6.5 Kms including construction of dual bridges over Bear Creek.  Later construction sections will include the interchange and completing the paving, grading and landscaping.

 

The Consultant was responsible for Design Plans and Surveys including:

 

1.         Contacting all property owners.

 

2.         All surveys including centerline location, drainage and section corner locations.

 

3.         All office work to provide grade, drain and surfacing plans for construction of the project, including maintenance of traffic details and detours, temporary drainage and staged drainage structure construction, signing plans, plans for twenty-nine crossroads and approaches.

 

4.         Right-of-Way plans, plats and deed descriptions as well as establishing existing property lines and ROW.

 

5.         Preparing drainage situation drawings and calculations and compiling drainage folders for the project.

 

6.         Designing crossroad structure over the freeway at the interchange and drainage structures.

 

The Department was responsible for providing:

1.         Design Location and Environmental Studies.

2.         Aerial manuscripts and digitized cross sections.

3.         Geotechnical investigations.

4.         Surface designs.

5.         Title Commitments and available existing ROW plans.

6.         Sign locations.