As summertime road construction heats up in the Buffalo Grove area, crews with the Lake County Division of Transportation are trying to limit traffic congestion for rush-hour commuters, officials said.
With work recently beginning on Aptakisic Road, construction workers with the Lake County transportation division will leave the east lanes open in the mornings as workers head to work in Chicago and then will wrap up work on the west lanes before the evening rush-hour commute, said Jeff Dayson, a resident engineer with the transportation division.
“When it’s all said and done, it should be completed by early October,” he said.
Aside from resurfacing work to Aptakisic Road, a related resurfacing project to Buffalo Grove Road, along with a road project in Long Grove, could cause traffic disruptions in the coming weeks for motorists traveling through the Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire areas.
The work zones along Aptakisic and Buffalo Grove roads are part of the same project, according to transportation officials.
Dayson said crews at both sites will grind down the existing blacktop layer and then lay new asphalt. But the foundations below both blacktop surfaces will be unaffected, he said.
Along Buffalo Grove Road, the construction work will stretch from Lake Cook Road up to Route 83.
Along Aptakisic Road, the roadwork is scheduled to move east from Buffalo Grove Road to Milwaukee Avenue, near Lincolnshire. Combined, the projects cover 3.5 miles of pavement, totaling $2 million to repair, officials said.
Dayson said the work schedule leaves both east lanes open until 9 a.m. and calls for the west lanes to be re-opened by 3 p.m.
Although an unrelated project, work to level the Canadian National railroad crossing along Old McHenry Road, between Quentin and Midlothian roads, at the northern end of Long Grove also could cause some brief traffic disruptions.
Work to level the railroad crossing began Tuesday and is scheduled to conclude Friday, but it will require crews to close that portion of Old McHenry Road to traffic, said Tom Bennecke, traffic operations engineer at the Lake County Division of Transportation.
The work includes laying down new asphalt at the railroad crossing and new pads between the tracks, he said. The transportation division is telling area motorists to use Route 22 to the south as a detour during the work.
A level crossing should make it easier for cars driving over the tracks and for crews to maintain, Bennecke said.
“It’s in everybody’s best interest,” he said.
