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Changes Proposed for Busy Interchange

Illinois Department of Transportation

  Some major changes are being considered for a busy highway interchange in the Quad Cities. Wednesday, the Illinois Department of Transportation will hold an open house to show its proposed improvements for the I-74 and John Deere Road interchange in Moline.
 
Matt Farmer from the DOT office in Dixon, says the changes would improve safety and allow for increased traffic and a smoother flow. The vertical clearance for the highway, under John Deere Road, would also be increased.

Farmer says the re-design includes something new for this area, called "diverging diamond interchanges." (see illustration) Approaching I-74 on John Deere Road, vehicles could exit to the right to get on the highway without stopping. Vehicles that wanted to cross the highway before entering would have to stop at a traffic light, and then their lanes would "cross" the lanes coming from the opposite direction - and go across the bridge on the left side.

Once across the bridge, traffic could then get on I-74 without stopping, before their lanes "crossed" to the opposite lanes again.
The open house will be held Wednesday from 1 to 6 pm at the Moline Library. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.