(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A major project is set to take over much of the Kennedy Expressway for three years, impacting many Chicago area commuters starting the week of March 20.
The $150 million project will focus on the stretch between the Edens Expressway junction to Ohio Street. The Illinois Department of Transportation said to expect major travel delays and to take alternative routes.
The project will involve improving bridge structures and the reversible lane access control system, replacing overhead sign structures, installing new signs and LED lights, patching pavement, painting structures and repainting Hubbard's Cave.
"The main effort of this project is to rehabilitate these structures that are over 50 years old," said Jon Schumacher, IDOT's bureau chief of construction.
The work is expected to be done in three stages with the inbound lanes first, then the reversibles, and the last phase will focus on the outbound lanes.
"We are going to be maintaining four lanes inbound and four lanes outbound throughout all three stages," he said.
IDOT said the Kennedy Expressway has been officially open since November 1960, and the last major rehab project on the roadway was completed in 1994.
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