This plan fulfills a portion of Section 5-301, “County Long Range Plan” of the Illinois Road and Bridge Laws, which requires the County Engineer
to annually prepare a 20-year long range highway transportation plan and a 5-year County Highway Improvement Program. The 5 Year Program
covers the time period from December 1, 2013 to November 30, 2018. The 5-Year Program is prepared 6 months in advance of the start of the
county’s next fiscal year. Therefore, this program document also includes the approved budget for the current fiscal year of the county, fiscal year
2013 (12/1/2012 to 11/30/2013), as a sixth year (i.e. the annual program).
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As calculated by FHWA standard method.
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The current Long Range Plan is the Year 2020 Lake County Transportation Priority Plan, adopted in June 2002.
Program Development
The Lake County Board-designated county highway system is a 300-mile system of major collector arterial highways and more than 59 miles of bike facilities in Lake County, operated by the Lake County Division of Transportation. These highways are marked by pentagonal blue and gold Lake County route markers and the bike paths by the
route identification sign incorporating the Lake County logo. The front of this section includes maps of the county
highway system and bike facilities. Daily travel on the system is more than 3.8 million vehicle miles on 864 lane miles.
Also included are graphs illustrating some of the background information used in developing candidate projects for
the highway improvement program.
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• 2013 - 2018 Highway Improvement Program