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The Illinois Department of Transportation is welcoming the general public to discuss its brand-new Illinois Marine Transportation System Plan and also financial influence evaluation research study. The responses will certainly aid form methods to enhance a state source that creates $36 billion in financial influence each year and also sustains greater than 160,000 tasks.
“Our waterways system is a big reason why Illinois is the transportation hub of North America,” statedActing Illinois Transportation Secretary Omer Osman “This study will make sure we are taking full advantage of a critical part of the state’s economy and help IDOT deliver the governor’s Rebuild Illinois capital program.”
The Illinois rivers system consists of 19 public port areas and also greater than 400 exclusive terminals along the Illinois, Kaskaskia, Ohio, and also Mississippi rivers in addition to the Chicago location rivers system and also Lake Michigan.
The Illinois Marine Transportation System Plan is planned to direct IDOT’s preparation and also programs initiatives to incorporate the system in the state’s total multimodal transport network. It additionally will certainly aid intend $150 million recognized for renovations to the aquatic transport system inGov JB Pritzker’s bipartisan Rebuild Illinois strategy, $40 numerous which is sustaining a public-private collaboration to construct a brand-new inland port at the convergence of the Mississippi and also Ohio rivers in Cairo.
Passed in 2019, Rebuild Illinois is spending a total amount of $33.2 billion over 6 years right into the state’s aging transport system. Rebuild Illinois is not just the biggest resources program in state background, however additionally the initial to touchall settings of transport: roadways and also bridges, transportation, rivers, products and also guest rail, aeronautics, and also bike and also pedestrian lodgings.
- A draft of the Illinois Marine Transportation System Plan, an educational video clip and also a web link to the remark kind can be located HERE.
