APRIL 28, 2025
Weather threat moves up next blast to Monday, April 28
U.S. 150 and surrounding roads will close at 7:30 p.m.
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that because of the threat of inclement weather this week, the original demolition schedule for the old eastbound McClugage Bridge has been adjusted for safety purposes. Read more.
We're having a blast!
Big things are happening with the McClugage Bridge project!
The demolition process has officially begun! A total of eight blasts will occur between March and June 2025 to remove the old eastbound structure. To learn more about the demolition schedule and future traffic impacts, view the press release and the information sheets!
Want to watch the action? Check out the blast videos below!
Demolition efforts of the old eastbound bridge actually started in January of this year.
During the last three months, we’ve been:
Taking slabs off the beams
Hauling them off the bridge
Processing them to make them ready to take to a recycler
And loading dump trucks and barges
All this preliminary work positioned us for where we are at now. The larger pieces of the bridge require an explosive process to demolish the structure. All debris will be cleaned up and processed for recycling.
WHAT?
After more than 70 years of serving the Peoria metro area, the eastbound McClugage Bridge will be removed and replaced with a new structure to meet the region’s transportation needs. Potential alternatives for a new bridge were examined and public comments were considered in the initial phases of the project, allowing construction to begin in the Spring of 2019.
WHY?
In order to improve capacity, increase safety and reduce travel times, the new McClugage Bridge will replace the existing structure. Continuing IDOTs focus on improving multimodal capabilities and strengthening the traveling experience, the new bridge will include bicycle and pedestrian accommodations.
Did you
know?
The new eastbound McClugage Bridge will improve the traveling experience for all who cross – not only for existing needs, but future ones as well. The new structure, more than twice the width of the old bridge, will increase capacity by adding a third lane and shoulders, improve safety, reduce travel times and ensure additional multimodal access with bike and pedestrian accommodations.
