Title/Name/Summary
143rd Street Design Engineering Services - Southwest Highway to Will/Cook Road
History
Over the past several years, the Village's previous engineering consultant McDonough Associates Inc. (MAI) of Chicago, Illinois, had been performing Phase I Engineering for the 143rd Street corridor, generally from LaGrange Road west to Will Cook Road. In 2012 IDOT suspended MAI from participating in any Federal or State projects. At the end of 2012, MAI ceased all operations.
The 143rd Street corridor project was split into two smaller projects (Southwest Highway to Wolf Road - Segment 1 and Wolf Road to Will Cook Road - Segment 2) when challenges with right-of-way acquisition along the Cook County Forest Preserve District (FPDCC) property arose. Since the early 2011 acquisition of the needed right of way from FPDCC, work on Segment 1 is able to be fully resumed. The scope of work for both projects is to develop a Phase I report and final engineering plans for the proposed widening and reconstruction and expansion of the corridor from 2 lanes to 4 lanes with a shared median turn lane or raised median, depending on location.
Since late 2012, Village staff, with the assistance of Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd. (CBBEL) under its general engineering contract with the Village, worked with IDOT and the FHWA on modifications to to the Phase I report for Segment 2. These included but were not limited to, noise analysis update, traffic volume update, and intersection design study update for Will/Cook Road and 143rd Street. The Village received Phase I Design approval from IDOT on May 16, 2013 for Segment 2 (Wolf Road to Will/Cook Road). This allows the Village to move Segment 2 into Phase II Design Engineering.
With the delay in securing the property from the FPDCC in Segment 1 a number of items have now expired , noise study, traffic volumes, wetland/environmental items, intersection design studies, all of which need to be updated or re-applied for from...
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