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The Navy Pier Flyover Is Getting Super Cool, But It's A Headache Wednesday [today]

By David Matthews | March 15, 2016 6:55pm | Updated on March 15, 2016 6:57pm


DOWNTOWN — The Navy Pier Flyover is really beginning to take shape.

Work on the new pedestrian path near Lake Michigan will shut down the Lake Shore Drive on ramp at Grand Avenue most of Wednesday, the Chicago Department of Transportation said. The closure will last from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and repeat March 22.

Aimed at alleviating pedestrian and bicyclist traffic near the lakefront, the first two legs of the $60-million flyover are expected to open next year. And those stretches near Navy Pier and Ohio Street Beach are finally starting to resemble a finished product. The walkway, expected to completely open in 2018, will stretch from roughly Ohio Street Beach to DuSable Harbor, connecting to Navy Pier in between. The project is being paid for by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the State of Illinois. Construction began in 2014.

For the full article with good photos go here: https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20160315/downtown/navy-pier-flyover...

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on March 16, 2016 at 11:51am
The concrete deck has been placed. Why would it take until 2017 to open ( as per the article)?
Permalink Reply by Tom A.K. on March 16, 2016 at 1:59pm
Scheduled phases of the planned construction work most probably have to be followed. This is complicated project that has to completed according to intended design safely because it is a elevated project with a higher liability factor involved.

It's understandable that everyone is impatient for it to be completed, but it's not like building the Sears-Willis-Tower, (built in less time) because you are working in different places over a large area.

You have to get it built right going into the grand opening because you don't want to be tinkering with it after you let people use it. I'm also impatient to use it, but I could wait a few years for them to get it right. I'm not retiring to Florida yet.

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