Ryan Otto

The big area of contention is School Street as it intersects with College Avenue and Mulberry Street. It leaves the Town of Normal and Illinois State University with a final recommendation to make regarding the intersection.

The Town of Normal is extending the temporary closure of a pedestrian-heavy stretch of School Street near Illinois State University as it gathers more data for potential permanent changes.

To get the decade-old Uptown underpass project over the finish line will require increases in food and beverage and hotel-motel taxes. That staff recommendation emerged at a special town council meeting on Wednesday evening.

Eight select locations will see temporary measures implemented starting Sept. 3. These measures could help to calm traffic, improve crossing safety and limit accidents.

Ryan Otto, Normal's director of public works and engineering, presented a list of findings from a pedestrian and roadway campus safety initiative to the town council on Monday.

There are a lot of road-closed-except-to-local-traffic signs out there in the Town of Normal this summer during the height of the street repair season.

The Normal Town Council on Monday unanimously approved a $209.2 million Community Investment Plan (CIP) laying out capital investments over the next six years.

The state of Illinois has agreed to fund most of a long-promised traffic safety study around the Illinois State University campus in Normal and on the Constitution Trail.

Ryan Otto, the town's director of engineering, says the planned extension runs along Gregory Street in northwest Normal, between Adelaide Street and Parkside Road. It will connect a park, three schools, Illinois State University and several neighborhoods to the trail.

The Town of Normal is exploring how to redesign a 1.85-mile stretch of Vernon Avenue, running from Beaufort Street on the west to Towanda Avenue on the east.