Local: So, how much did the city spend to improve Main and University?
I knew this was going to happen the night last week I drove past Main and University and saw an Illinois American work crew digging up the pavement right in front of Avanti’s on Main:
(Press release)
Due to a recent water leak at Main and University, Illinois American Water Company will need to shut down several lanes starting today, to facilitate valve repairs.
On eastbound Main Street, the left turn lane will be closed to northbound University for the next several days. Westbound Main Street will be reduced to one lane for one day with the center lane closed for equipment. The right turn lane on southbound University will remain closed.
Please avoid this intersection as long delays will occur. Surface restoration work is expected to take three days. All traffic should be open by Monday, November 24, 2008, weather permitting.
This is going to make life Hell for me, as I often have to travel past this intersection to get my parents’ house in Kingspark Estates. Now, I will have to make a big, long looping detour through West Peoria or go north to West Nebraska. I’m hoping this work doesn’t involve closing University as Columbia Terrace, If not, I’ll be able to take a shortcut through the Uplands.
And I’d like to know what it is about Illinois American that requires their friggin’ lines to break AFTER city taxpayers fix the roads. It is not possible for this people to replace or to maintenance on lines WHILE the streets are torn up, but before the new surface is in place?
And can we not send a bill to this foreign-owned, for-profit corporation for the cost of returning the street to the condition it was in before their property became all defective.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Billy are you saying that a “Traffic calming” device or equivalent would cause you to drive through a neighborhood. Isn’t there a $25,000 traffic study indicating that it wouldn’t possibly be your course of action? I didn’t read it, just pulling from memory….
November 19th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Oh my! Cut through the Uplands? Those people will have a fit. There are more top signs per square foot there than any place in Peoria. Paul is correct, a lot of money was spent studying the fact that people won’t cut through a neighborhood. Money down the drain I guess. (pardon the pun) BTW, as I blogged about this IAW thing, I asked; “What were the odds a water main would break right after they refinished the road?”
November 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
If it was peoria owned would you expect them send themself a bill? IAW is responsable to return it to like it was. If the city does not hold them to that then it is the COP fault.Mainbreaks are not planned. Granted that main might be old, but it does not signal replacement just because it’s old.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
regarding Emtronics comment & the Uplands:
As a happy resident of the Uplands, I don’t have a problem with people cutting thru my neighborhood. I DO have a problem with people going mach 12 thru my neighborhood.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Emtronics — No need to be jealous of us Uplanders. There are homes for sale right now! Move on up the bluff and join us. You, too, can enjoy storm sewers and sidewalks, and we all know you won’t ever complain about the traffic.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Hey I also agree about people driving “Mach 12″ through neighborhoods. To bad enforcement isn’t an option on speed limits. Can’t waste a cop.
I could never join the Uplands. I am not anal retentive enough.
/end tongue and cheek