Starting immediately, Illinois Street from Lincoln Avenue to Gregory Street will be closed to through traffic until Friday, July 21, 2017, due to an emergency communications utility repair.
Access to University of Illinois parking lots along this section will be available.
We appreciate your patience while this event is underway.
Telephone service to the Urbana City Building was fully restored about 9:45 a.m. today (July 18), as AT&T crews worked around the clock to splice together thousands of copper lines that were accidentally severed Friday afternoon by a city contractor.
The accident has left a significant number of land-line customers in Urbana without service and full restoration of service might take as long as Friday. AT&T has had crews of eight working on splicing together the copper lines, working 24 hours a day, since this weekend.
Five cables, each containing 2,400 pairs of lines, were damaged in the accident, two of them completely severed.
The incident occurred early Friday afternoon, when a city contractor was installing a new street light and damaged a large AT&T phone duct that had multiple cables in it, according to John Collins, Public Works operation manager.
As part of the 2016-2018 Miscellaneous Sewer Repair Project, and weather permitting, Duce Construction will be making a repair to the brick arch storm sewer and will close Elm Street between Busey Avenue and Coler Avenue to all thru traffic starting on Monday, July 10, 2017 at 7:00 a.m. through Friday, July 21, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.
Access to all driveways and properties will be maintained throughout the storm sewer repair. A detour route utilizing South Busey Avenue to West Green Street to South Coler Avenue to West Elm will be marked to route traffic around the construction zone.
Motorists are encouraged to drive carefully through this and all construction areas. Thank you for your cooperation while this improvement is in progress.
On Friday, July 7, 2017, Main Street between Race Street and Broadway Avenue will be closed from 5:00 p.m. through 11:00 p.m. for the Urbana First Fridays Festival. Parking on this section of Main Street will not be available during the event.
We appreciate your patience while this event is underway.
CLOSED
Sealed BIDS for the construction of the 2017 Full Depth Concrete Patching Project (City Section 17-00585-00-PV) including: 10” Class B Patching; curb and gutter removal and replacement; and other incidental work will be received by the City of Urbana at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 South Glover, Urbana, Illinois 61802 until 1:55 p.m. prevailing time on Friday, July 7, 2017 and publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 p.m. at said office.
The Bid Documents may be examined and copies obtained at the office of the Director of Public Works, 706 South Glover Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61802.
Additional bid information is contained in the document below.
