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Designing a transportation system today isn't as simple as asking, "Where should it go?"
Today's transportation planners face challenges early road and rail builders never imagined:
- high-speed travel
- ever-increasing numbers of vehicles
- growing safety concerns
- environmental regulations
Burns & McDonnell's staff of transportation experts can help you meet your surface transportation challenges — including securing the leverage you need to get the most transportation dollars available.
We can get you on the road, whether you're looking at major highways, city streets, bridge repair/replacement or supporting studies and planning efforts.
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From the start of the Open Road Tolling program in fall 2004, Burns & McDonnell was part of the Illinois Tollway's program management team. The $800 million effort was part of the 10-year, $5.3 billion congestion-relief plan to reduce travel times in the Chicago metro.
The barrier-free system allows travelers with electronic toll payment to maintain highway speeds as they pass the toll plazas, reducing congestion.
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Drivers paying with cash are funneled to lanes separate from the high-speed traffic, reducing travel times and improving safety on the road.
In all, 20 mainline toll plazas have been converted. Burns & McDonnell was the prime consultant for the design and reconstruction of the Waukegan Toll Plaza (Plaza 21), a site handling more than 100,000 vehicles each day.
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