LANSING | The Illinois Department of Transportation has agreed to repair five village streets damaged when the Kingery Expressway was widened.

"They're going to patch and resurface a number of village streets impacted by the Kingery Expressway project," Village President Dan Podgorski told the Village Board this week. "They were using a lot of streets with heavy contractors and equipment for staging and going and back and forth to the job site."

Lansing officials asked IDOT to repair the streets in a letter to the state agency in July 2006, Podgorski said.

IDOT agreed to do the work in conjunction with the state's resurfacing of Burnham Avenue between 170th Street and Ill. 83, which is scheduled for sometime between now and 2012, said Podgorski, who expects both jobs to be done by 2009.

"I don't know exactly what year it will take place in," he said. "According to IDOT, it will be in the earlier half of that six-year schedule. Our streets will be done in accordance with that schedule.

The streets include Greenbay and Lorenz avenues between 175th and 176th streets, Podgorski said.

"We have had residents from those streets ask for their streets to be resurfaced because of this project," he said.

According to a letter from IDOT to Podgorski, the other three streets are:

* Bernice Road from Oak to Burnham avenues.

* The Vollbrecht-175th Street frontage road along Interstate 80-94

*175th Street from Wentworth Avenue to State Line Road.

In the March 7 letter, Diane O'Keefe, deputy director of highways for IDOT, apologized for the delayed response and said the department believes all five streets were impacted by construction traffic.