GOVERNORS' PARKWAY
CONSTRUCTION COST: $10,500,000
EXPECTED COMPLETION DATE: AUGUST 2009
CLIENT: MADISON COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

In order to provide another badly needed east-west connection and allow traffic to bypass downtown Edwardsville, the Madison County Highway Department hired Oates Associates to design almost 3 miles of new road on new alignment with a bridge connecting IL-159 to IL-143 in Edwardsville, Illinois. The road will be a concrete three-lane road with a bi-directional left turn lane, and traffic signals at Gerber Road, District Drive and IL Route 143. The planned route's crossing of a tributary to Dunlap Lake required a hydraulic study and report in order to obtain a permit from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.