103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4489

 

Introduced 1/17/2024, by Rep. Suzanne M. Ness

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 5/4-220

    Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any State transportation facility in or within one mile of an urban area (rather than in or within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 1,000 people). Allows a county (in addition to a municipality) to opt out of bicycle and pedestrian way construction by passing a resolution stating that a bicycle or pedestrian way does not fit within its development plan.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
5changing Section 4-220 as follows:
 
6    (605 ILCS 5/4-220)
7    Sec. 4-220. Bicycle and pedestrian ways.
8    (a) Bicycle and pedestrian ways shall be given full
9consideration in the planning and development of
10transportation facilities, including the incorporation of such
11ways into State plans and programs.
12    (b) In or within one mile of an urban area a municipality
13with a population of over 1,000 people, and subject to the
14Department's option in subsection (e), the Department shall
15establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in
16conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other
17change of any State transportation facility except:
18        (1) in pavement resurfacing projects that do not widen
19    the existing traveled way or do not provide stabilized
20    shoulders;
21        (2) where approved by the Secretary of Transportation
22    based upon documented safety issues, excessive cost, or
23    absence of need; or

 

 

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1        (3) where the municipality or county passes a
2    resolution stating that a bicycle or pedestrian way does
3    not fit within its development plan.
4    (c) Bicycle and pedestrian ways may be included in
5pavement resurfacing projects when local support is evident or
6the bicycling and walking accommodations can be added within
7the overall scope of the original roadwork.
8    (d) The Department shall establish design and construction
9standards for bicycle and pedestrian ways. Beginning July 1,
102007, this Section shall apply to planning and training
11purposes only. Beginning July 1, 2008, this Section shall
12apply to construction projects.
13    (e) If programmed funds identified in Section 2705-615 of
14the Department of Transportation Law are not expended for 5
15years, the Department has the option to use those funds to pay
16the cost of bicycle and pedestrian ways in roadway projects
17affected by this Section.
18(Source: P.A. 102-660, eff. 1-1-22.)