Illinois FY 2020-2025 Proposed Multimodal Multi-Year Improvement Program
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Illinois FY 2020-2025 Proposed Multimodal Multi-Year Improvement Program Published by the Illinois Department of Transportation Springfield, Illinois 62764 October 2020 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .............................................................................................. 1 Performance Goals .................................................................................................. 2 Marine Transportation ............................................................................................. 3 PROPOSED RAIL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ....................................................... 6 Program Overview ................................................................................................... 6 System Background ................................................................................................ 6 Funding Sources and Amounts ............................................................................ 9 Programming Process and Priorities ................................................................. 11 FY 2020-2025 Select Major Capital Project Summaries ................................... 12 FY 2020-2025 Capital Projects ............................................................................. 13 FY 2020-2025 Capital Project List ........................................................................ 15 PROPOSED AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ............................................. 17 Program Overview ................................................................................................. 17 System Background .............................................................................................. 17 Funding Sources and Amounts .......................................................................... 20 Programming Process and Priorities ................................................................. 22 Select Major Capital Project Summaries ............................................................ 24 Illinois Airport Capital Investment Program ...................................................... 45 PROPOSED TRANSIT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM ............................................. 47 Programming Overview and Process ................................................................. 47 System Background .............................................................................................. 47 Funding Sources and Amounts .......................................................................... 54 Select Major Capital Project Summaries ............................................................ 58 Urban Transit Capital Projects............................................................................. 59 Appendix ..................................................................................................................... 62 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY basis and are often not included in the In Summer 2019, and in response to Multimodal MYP. We include links to MPO’s significant budget challenges for Illinois’ Transportation Improvement Programs, as Infrastructure investment, the Governor and well as any federal and state funding General Assembly passed a package of contributions to transit capital programming to legislation that increased revenue, bond allow for determining local projects. Transit authority, and created new programs to projects funded through the Rebuild Illinois increase and focus transportation investment. capital program are captured in the transit This multi-modal Multi-year Program includes section of this MYP along with total funding new projects and multi-modal programs that amounts for the 2020-2025 program years. were enacted through three primary pieces of Legislation: House Bill (HB) 0062 - Rebuild Illinois, HB 142 – Bond Authorization, and Rail & Air MYP Senate Bill (SB) 1939 – the Transportation Funding Protection Act. This new legislation Funding Share significantly increased state funding for multi- modal transportation programs. Transportation plays a vital role in the 56.5% economic prosperity of Illinois. Air and rail services move people and goods into and throughout Illinois, keeping the state’s economy moving and connecting 5.1% communities. Transit and paratransit services 31.3% are crucial to our ability to provide access to jobs, medical care, education and activities 7.0% throughout urban, suburban and rural communities. Funding for transit, rail and air transportation Federal State is sourced from federal, state, local and $930.4 million $1.67 billion industry sources. Illinois’ ability to continue its Local Private (Rail) support of much-needed funding has been $151.9 million $208.2 million limited. However, recent legislation increased state funding for multi-modal programs by Rail and Aero MYP Funding Total: $2.96 over $1B in this six-year Multimodal MYP billion (2020-2025). For the first time, most proposed funding is derived from state Rail and air projects proposed in the 2020- sources, at 56.5 percent. Federal funding 2025 Multimodal MYP range in scope from a sources make up 31.3 percent of total municipal airport’s upgrade of fueling facilities funding, with local sources funding only 5.1 to the construction of high-speed rail percent of the 2020-2025 total. (An additional infrastructure between St. Louis and Chicago. 7 percent of funding is projected from private The total combined count of these projects sources, strictly for projects within the within the Multimodal MYP is 345. The CREATE rail program in the Chicago area.) number of airport projects comprise 92.8 percent of this total and the number of rail Transit projects are typically programmed projects comprise 7.2 percent. locally (at the Metropolitan Planning Organization [MPO] level) on a continuous IDOT 2020-2025 Multimodal MYP Page 1 improvement projects across the state. Performance Goals The Illinois FY 2020-2025 Proposed Multimodal Multi-Year Program is oriented around five performance goals, which were developed as part of IDOT’s Long-Range Transportation Plan: Economy – Improve Illinois’ economy by providing transportation infrastructure that Projects by Mode supports the efficient movement of people and goods. Air 320 Livability – Enhance the quality of life across Rail 25 the state by ensuring that transportation investments advance local goals, provide 0 100 200 300 400 multimodal options and preserve the environment. Transit projects are programmed locally and not included within the IDOT 2020-2025 MYP Mobility – Support all modes of transportation Airport projects outnumber rail projects in to improve accessibility and safety by quantity, however the overall investment is improving connections between all modes of greater for rail, which comprises 69.1 percent transportation. of the total (over air projects’ 30.9 percent). Resiliency – Proactively assess, plan and Investments by Mode invest in the state’s transportation system to ensure that our infrastructure is prepared to (in Billions of Dollars) sustain and recover from extreme events and other disruptions. Airports Rail Stewardship – Safeguard existing funding and increase revenues to support system 0 1 2 3 maintenance, modernization and strategic growth of Illinois’ transportation system. Rail investments are increasing through Rebuild Illinois and associated legislation and The LRTP establishes a set of policies to now comprise $2.4B of the $2.96B MYP. The guide future development rather than outlining majority of rail funding is going toward specific improvements, like those in this MYP. statewide inter-city passenger rail These policy goals provide the broad improvement and development, as well as framework for new decision-making and CREATE projects in northeastern Illinois. future analysis tools. Airport projects total $532.1 million and consist of safety and infrastructure IDOT’s LRTP can be found at http://www.idot.illinois.gov/transportation- IDOT 2020-2025 Multimodal MYP Page 2 system/transportation- Despite these efforts, the IMTS and the management/planning/lrtp/index. overall National Marine Transportation System (NMTS) continue to face significant hurdles. For example, operations and Marine Transportation maintenance and major rehabilitation programs administered through the U.S. In CY 2014, Illinois moved 1.2 billion tons of Army Corps of Engineers are unable to goods via road, rail, air and water. Nearly adequately fund maintenance activities to nine percent of those tons (108 million) ensure the navigation system operates at were moved on water at a value of over $31 an acceptable level of performance. The Billion. Mississippi Valley Division Regional Backlog of Maintenance for navigation is IDOT understands the economic valued at over $1 billion (FY 2017 value). significance and advantages of marine The USACE Rock Island District’s portion, transportation and is exploring opportunities which includes the upper Mississippi River that promote ports, navigable waterways, and most of the Illinois Waterway, is nearly the Great Lakes and intermodal landside 40 percent of this amount. Illinois is the infrastructure that allows transportation to, third-largest agricultural exporter in the from and on water. country and relies heavily upon the IMTS and NMTS. Our current planning efforts will IDOT has taken the lead on freight help identify how the state can help address transportation issues relative to the Illinois marine transportation system issues. Marine Transportation System (IMTS) in coordination with other agencies, states and Although