📋 Tender Overview
ScopeThe I-94 Modernization Project will bring approximately 7 miles of I-94 in the City of Detroit up to current safety and design standards. It involves the complete redesign and reconstruction of I-94 from I-96 to Connor Avenue. The project includes the addition of one lane in each direction to relieve congestion replacement of 67 bridges along the corridor and at the interchanges wider shoulders a new drainage system and the lengthening of entrance and exit ramps and other improvements to increase safety and provide greater mobility for motorized and nonmotorized transportation including pedestrians. The development and construction of several I-94 advanced bridges is ongoing. The replacement of bridges over I-94 at Woodward Avenue Trumbull Street Van Dyke Avenue Gratiot Avenue and Chene Street have been completed. Bridges at Brush Street Concord Street and French Road will be under construction during the 2019 construction season. Bridges at Second Avenue Mt. Elliott Street East Grand Boulevard and Milwaukee Avenue over I-75 will be constructed in 2020. Bridges at Cass Avenue Grand River Avenue Burns Street and Frontenac Street will be constructed in 2021. Third Street will be removed in 2021. In 2022 MDOT will be replacing two Conrail Railroad bridges along the corridor. Active transportation and demand management ATDM plans are being developed along Gratiot and Michigan avenues and on I-94 to more smoothly accommodate increased traffic flow during the reconstruction of I-94. Right-of-way acquisition is currently ongoing along the corridor. MDOT has been seeking comments on the project through an extensive public engagement plan and is currently studying modifications to the project in response to stakeholder comments. The study is called a Supplemental Environment Impact Statement SEIS. As part of the SEIS process MDOT will conduct a public hearing in 2019 and will complete the SEIS process in 2020. If the SEIS is approved by the Federal Highway Administration FHWA MDOT can then proceed with design right-of-way acquisition and construction of the modified portions of the project. Immediately following the approval of the SEIS MDOT will begin the final design of the section of I-94 from Conner Avenue to Chene Street along with modifications to the Dequindre Road bridge. Major construction of that work on I-94 will begin in 2024
