A northbound Canadian National freight train crosses Rout14 earlier this year in Barrington. The village’s grade separation project will create an underpass that will help drivers avoid long delays. | Joe Lewnard/Daily Herald
By Steve Zalusky | Daily Herald
Barrington village board members this week took another step toward making a Route 14 underpass a reality.
Trustees on Monday approved a cost-sharing agreement for the construction phase of the “grade separation,” which will run beneath the Canadian National Railway tracks between Valencia Avenue and Hough Street.
“All of our projects with federal funding require joint funding agreements with the state, because they typically manage those federal dollars,” Deputy Village Manager Marie Hansen said.
The agreement spells out project costs shared among the village, the Surface Transportation Program (STP) and the Illinois Department of Transportation, which administers the STP.
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