Project Description
The Illinois Department of
Transportation is pleased to announce a consulting firm
has been chosen to provide Phase I engineering services
required for the preparation of an anticipated Tiered
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and supporting
engineering reports for the construction of a four lane
freeway or expressway from Interstate 24 in the Paducah,
Kentucky/Metropolis, Illinois region to Interstate 55 in
the Cape Girardeau, Missouri region. Little Egypt JV, a
joint venture of the consulting firms Horner & Shifrin,
Inc. and Bernardin, Lochmueller and Associates, were
selected. $3.6 million in funding was approved by the
U.S. Department of Transportation to evaluate the most
feasible I-66 corridor. The counties included in the
study are Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, and
Union. The study, which will begin in April 2013, will
take 3 years to complete and includes environmentally
sensitive and economically depressed areas. The study
will be conducted under the requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act and will include several public
meetings and input from stakeholders in southern
Illinois as well as Kentucky and Missouri.
The I-66 project is part of
the East-West Transamerica Corridor, a national
transportation plan first studied in the 1980s that
would start in San Diego and end in the Norfolk, Va.
area. At this time, there is no further funding
identified in Illinois for I-66 past the initial Tiered
Environmental Impact Statement and supporting
engineering reports.
Anyone that would like to be
added to the project’s mailing list may do so by sending
their contact information to
Valerie.Rolla@illinois.gov
Notice of
Award 2011 (~70kb PDF)
Project Location Map (~5mb PDF)
Project Area Map (~4mb PDF)
