Street ProjectsMCORE
This multi-year project transformed transportation on the Urbana campus through five separate steps.
The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD), City of Champaign, City of Urbana, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign partnered to improve mobility in our communities core through a federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. The $47.2M Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project (MCORE) Project is unprecedented in our community’s history and has made a transformative impact.
MCORE Project construction started in March of 2017 and substantially completed in June 2021, covering five separate project areas to improve key urban transportation corridors:
PROJECT 1
Green Street (from Wright Street to Busey Avenue) 2016-2017
PROJECT 2
Green Street (from Neil Street to Fourth Street) 2016-2017
PROJECT 3
White Street (from Second Street to Wright Street) and Wright Street (from White Street to Springfield Avenue) 2016-2017
PROJECT 4
Armory Avenue (from Fourth Street to Wright Street) and Wright Street (from Armory Avenue to Springfield Avenue) 2018-2019
PROJECT 5
Green Street (from Busey Avenue to Race Street) 2018-2019
Enhances Mobility Choices
The goal of MCORE is to provide a balance between all modes of transportation. Transportation choices address pedestrian access routes, bicycle lanes, transit efficiency and vehicle flow; and reduce potential conflict areas.
Improves Infrastructure
MCORE improves the condition of the existing pavement and bring the streets of these core transit corridors into a state of good repair while redesigning them into complete streets to accommodate all users.
Promotes Sustainability
MCORE encourages sustainable development that is located and designed to be compact and contiguous to existing development and have limited environmental impact; provide streetscape improvements for an enriched built environment, sense of place, and quality of life; emphasize all modes of transportation while decreasing the use of single occupancy vehicles, thereby reducing congestion, traffic hazards, and carbon emissions.
Improves Critical Linkages
The completion of the MCORE Project provides better connections between the downtown centers of Champaign and Urbana, the university, the area’s major employers, health, and social service organizations.