Project Description
The Illinois
Department of Transportation selected Little Egypt JV, a
joint venture of the consulting firms Horner & Shifrin,
Inc. and Bernardin, Lochmueller and Associates, 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. $3.6 million in
funding was approved by the U.S. Department of
Transportation to evaluate the most feasible 66
corridor. The counties included in the study are
Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, and Union. The
study, which began in April 2013, will take
approximately 4 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 66 corridor 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 66 corridor 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
Link to the 66 Corridor
Website:
www.66corridor.org
Notice of
Award 2011 (~70kb PDF)
Project Location Map (~5mb PDF)
Project Area Map (~4mb PDF)
