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McLean County board hears two-year plan to remake Veterans Parkway after federal planning award
Summary
The McLean County Board received a presentation on a federally funded, two-year planning process to redesign a 10-mile stretch of Veterans Parkway to improve safety and multimodal access; the project has a $675,000 estimated cost with a $100,000 federal RAISE planning grant and local match.
Ray Lai, executive director of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission, told the McLean County Board on Feb. (presentation date not specified) that a federally funded planning effort aims to redesign a 10-mile stretch of Veterans Parkway to improve safety and multimodal access.
Lai said the project is funded through a RAISE planning grant and is estimated at about $675,000 in total, with a federal planning award of $100,000 and the remainder provided by local and state partners. "It's to have a safe, accessible transportation corridor, to come accommodate all vehicles, whether it's trucks or your own personal vehicles, all kinds, pedestrians, bicyclists, and and public transit," Lai told the board.
The planning area, Lai said, covers…
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