For Immediate Release
Contact:  Jason Gerwig
630/407-6022
February 29, 2008

RION PLEASED KAUTZ ROAD IMPROVEMENT DISCUSSIONS STILL MOVING FOWARD

WHEATON ― Pam Rion, Chairwoman of the County’s Transportation Committee, said she is pleased that the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and DuPage County has moved forward with a public hearing regarding a grade separation for Illinois Route 38 at Kautz Road, and at the Union Pacific Railroad in West Chicago and Geneva.

The proposed grade separation would result in a new bridge being constructed over the Union Pacific Railroad, which would help ease traffic congestion and improve safety at this busy, and dangerous, intersection.

“Grade separations provide two tangible benefits to residents.  They help ease traffic congestion, and they provide for safe traveling through dangerous intersections,” said Rion (District 6).  “When completed, this project would have an immediate impact on the lives of motorists who currently travel over this dangerous intersection.”

Rion, who has long championed this project, said she and DuPage County Division of Transportation staff will continue to meet with state and local officials to help get the design stages of this project underway, as well as work to secure the necessary revenue to begin construction of this critical traffic congestion relief project.