The Aurora City Council is set to vote on an engineering agreement for the extension of Eola Road to intersect with Route 30.
Aldermen will vote on a $193,163 contract with V3 Companies for Phase II Engineering services at the Sept. 26 full council meeting in the council chambers, City Hall, 44 E. Downer Place.
The engineering will go toward a planned project to extend Eola Road on a curve, just south of Wolf’s Crossing and just past Bednarcik Junior High School in Will County.
The idea is to have the road create a safer intersection with Route 30 than the current angled intersection of Route 30 and Heggs Road.
Eola Road runs into Heggs Road. With the new extension, Eola would curve past the school, and the section of Heggs from there to Route 30 would be closed.
The Phase II engineering would include final engineering to work toward getting approval for the project from the Illinois Department of Transportation.
The department has funding available for the intersection improvements at the existing intersection of Heggs Road and Route 30. The city and IDOT have entered into an agreement to allocate the funds to the proposed intersection of Eola Road and Route 30.
The project totals about $1.4 million.
