Bush to Sign Transportation Bill Next Week Near Aurora
Posted on: Friday, 5 August 2005, 21:00 CDT
President Bush will visit the Aurora area next Wednesday to sign into law the new federal transportation spending bill that contains billions for long-sought suburban road projects.
"I'll be proud to sign a fiscally responsible highway bill next Wednesday in the state of Illinois," Bush said Wednesday during a Texas speech on his second term goals.
The signing ceremony will take place in Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert's district to recognize his efforts in brokering a compromise between a Bush administration that wanted to spend less money and a Congress that wanted to bring home more bacon.
The location is expected to be an Aurora-area manufacturing plant several miles away from the site of the Prairie Parkway, the Hastert- backed connector that will link the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway (Interstate 88) with I-80. The transportation bill contains $207 million for the new road.
The spending package also contains $70.4 million to build the Stearns Road bridge over the Fox River in St. Charles Township, $140 million for a DuPage County western access road into O'Hare International Airport, $1.6 million to begin work on straightening Des Plaines' S-curve, and authorization for Metra's proposed STAR line linking Joliet to Hoffman Estates to O'Hare. Illinois expects to get $1.2 billion a year in federal transportation money through 2009 - a 33 percent increase over the previous transportation law.
Source: Daily Herald; Arlington Heights, Ill.
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