Residents who live along Bouse Road encouraged to attend public meeting in July
Charles Bolinger
Editor • As part of Troy’s efforts to convert area oil-’n-chip roads into concrete streets with new sidewalks or shared-use paths, curbs and gutters, Bouse Road has figured into the city’s plans for a while now. Troy’s City Engineer, Tom Cissell, gave details.
The roadwork has two phases. The first phase will go from Chamberlain Drive and extend to a point 500 feet east of Tramore. City officials developed a preliminary road plan and will present it to residents from the Homes of Liberty Place, Season’s Village and Waterford Subdivision at a meeting in July.
The project’s second phase, for which the city received grant funding, cannot start until August, when the official award arrives. The second phase’s scope is from a point 500 feet east of Tramore to Formosa.
In other action, the Troy City Council approved a joint funding agreement with the Illinois Department of Transportation for design work that will extend the current shared-use path that runs between US 40 and Turtle Creek Drive. The extension would take it further south along the west side of Troy-O’Fallon Road to Meadowbrook/Fairoaks Drive.
Madison County approved a crosswalk in this location and they plan to lower the speed limit on Troy-O’Fallon. Cissell hopes for a summer 2027 construction start. However, the next phase of this project, which would take the shared-use path further south from Meadowbrook to Country Lane, was not recommended for grant funding because the phase of Bouse Road noted above received those monies.
Another project that Troy did not receive grant funding for is the Triad High School Connector. City officials submitted a $250,000 Safe Routes to School Grant application to IDOT last October. They recently received notice that this grant was not recommended for funding, so city officials are now in discussions with Triad School District officials about submitting a Madison County Transit School Connector grant for the project.
As part of Troy’s PASER program, Cissell said he hopes to bid Wickliffe Street’s construction in July. The improvements will stretch from Sarah to Market streets.
Design work for Ash, Charcoal and Webster between Market and Center streets is 75% complete.
The design work for Oak Street’s sidewalks from Main to Washington began after Memorial Day and on Sarah Street’s design work from Collinsville Road to Wickliffe, the preliminary design work has begun.
Other infrastructure updates:
SRS – the company’s owner is working on the final plat for the site. When complete, it will be a large warehouse on Formosa Road. SRS sells building supplies.
Foundations have been poured at The Forum, a five-acre senior living development on Senior Airman Brad Smith Boulevard. Plans call for a two-story building with amenities such as exercise areas, a living room, a community kitchen, a library, an outdoor patio and a walking path with gardens.
The retention pond on Kimberlin, not Kimberline Street, will be done before the end of June, weather permitting, Cissell said. “The weather’s not been cooperating lately, so it’s kind of muddy out there,” he noted.
107 N. Main St. – Design work will be done by June 12 for the now grass-covered site and there will be 25 parking slots (not 26 as previously reported) and space for two tables and benches. “We hope to get this project designed and done in the next couple of weeks and get this out to bid in late June or early July,” Cissell said. “Then we can get that parking lot in place by fall so maybe we’ll catch the tail-end of the First Friday Season with a new tailgate area.”
Completed
The second phase of Zenk Road’s Reconstruction was finished by June 8, Cissell reported. The work converted a section of the old oil-’n-chip road to a 30-foot-wide concrete road between Oakwood Drive and Redbud Lane. The project used a $286,000 grant from Madison County Community Development. The contractor’s cost was $274,445 and the city council awarded the work in March. Construction started May 1.
