2014 Report Card for Illinois' InfrastructureEvery family, every community and every business needs infrastructure to thrive. Infrastructure encompasses: your local drinking water supply to the Illinois River; the subway car you take to work to the rail lines spanning the State; and the street in front of your home to the interstate highway system. In 2010, the Infrastructure G.P.A. for Illinois was a D+, reflecting delayed maintenance and underinvestment across most categories. Now, the 2014 Report Card grades are compiled, and the Illinois cumulative G.P.A. for infrastructure rose slightly to a C-.
The 2014 Report Card demonstrates that we can improve the current condition of Illinois infrastructure — when investments are made and projects move forward, the grades improve. While the modest progress is encouraging, there is much work left to be done. It is clear that Illinois has a significant backlog of overdue maintenance across our infrastructure network, a pressing need to build modern and resilient systems, and an immense opportunity to create reliable, long-term funding sources to avoid wiping out these recent gains.
Read the full 2014 Report Card for Illinois’ Infrastructure here.
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Aviation
Bridges
Dams
Drinking Water
Inland Waterways
Rail
Roads
Transit
WastewaterA: Exceptional, B: Good, C: Mediocre, D: Poor, F: Failing, ?: Incomplete
Each category was evaluated on the basis of capacity, condition, funding, future need, operation and maintenance, public safety, resilience, and innovation
Aviation
86 public-use airports
Bridges
2,275 of the 26,621 bridges are structurally deficient
Bridges
$115.80 million in bridge funds came from the Federal Highway Bridge Fund in 2011
Dams
87% of the state regulated dams have an Emergency Action Plan
Dams
212 high hazard dams
Drinking Water
$19 billion in drinking water infrastructure needs over the next 20 years
Energy
5.257 gigawatt-hours of renewable energy every year, ranking it 29th
Hazardous Waste
45 sites on the National Priorities List
Inland Waterways
1,100 miles of inland waterways, ranking it 8th nationally
Levees
2,050 miles of levees
Ports
106.4 million short tons of cargo in 2012, ranking it 6th nationally
Public Parks
$647.3 million of unmet needs for its parks system
Rail
41 freight railroads covering 7,028 miles across the state, ranking 2nd nationally by mileage
Roads
$3.7 billion a year in costs to motorists from driving on roads in need of repair, which is $449 /yr per motorist
Roads
16,966 of the state’s 144,337 public roads are major roads, and 15% are in poor condition
Schools
$8.2 billion in estimated school infrastructure funding needs
Transit
648 million annual unlinked passenger trips via transit systems including bus, transit, and commuter trains
Wastewater
$17.5 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs over the next 20 years
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