Overview

 

Main Street is the original thoroughfare through Danville; Danville’s commerce started here. It began as a dirt road and then was paved with brick; the roadway was later overlaid with asphalt.

Today, the brick pavement has been worn out by decades of traffic. Approximately 25,000 cars and trucks use Main Street every day.

At a cost of nearly $7 million, the Main Street Reconstruction Project will start at Pine Street and meet the recent improvement at the Stone Arch Bridge over Stony Creek near Collett Street. Nine inches of new concrete pavement will be built on a 12” gravel base. The lanes will be widened to 12 feet. Side street intersections will be reconstructed. New curb and gutter, sidewalks, and driveways will be built. A new storm sewer system will be installed. The traffic signals will be updated. Disturbed landscaping and lawns will be restored with sod.

Walnut and Franklin Streets will become two-way streets. Parking will no longer be allowed along Main Street.

The City of Danville is installing new street lights. Aqua Illinois has installed a new water main.

During the project:

• 17,000 cubic yards of earth will be moved.

• 12,000 cubic yards of gravel base will be laid.

• 13,000 cubic yards of concrete will be poured.

• 10,000 feet of storm sewer will be laid.

• 9,000 cubic yards of sand will fill excavations.