IDOT still moving forward on Illiana toll road

Rendering of the Illiana courtesy of Parsons Brinkerhoff

The Illinois Department of Transportation is teaming up with Indiana to get the Illiana toll road back on track, according to a document filed in court recently.

A statement filed in US District Court Oct. 6 by John Fortmann, an IDOT engineer, said “IDOT is working cooperatively” with the Indiana Department of Transportation to address the environmental issues that caused the court to rule in June, 2015 that the Federal Highway Administration erred in approving the project, because the project’s environmental impact statement was the result of a “faulty” analysis…Please click here to read Susan DeMar Lafferty’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.