The Illinois Toll Highway Authority will spend $13 million
and the next four months resurfacing the trilevel bridge connecting I-294 with
I-90 near Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. By closing all lanes to traffic at the same
time the project will take four months instead of seven months, and will
relaize cost savings by using a single pour to resurface all lanes of the
bridge, which has not been entirely replace since it was first built in 1958.
Construction complications on the project include FAA height
restrictions on the equipment contractors can use on the job, due to proximity
to O’Hare departure and approach pathways, as well as a lengthy detour taking
motorists through two toll plazas. The Tollway promises to collect only a
single toll along the detour route, though.
