Motorists who are sick and tiring of driving on the crumbling 9th Street in Mt. Carmel will have to wait at least another year to see the road resurfaced. Mayor Joe Judge said he received more bad news on the much delayed project last week during a meeting the state Department of Transportation….

 Judge said the city’s hands are tied when it comes to even putting a temporary fix on the stretch of road what rattles driver’s teeth…

Judge’s meeting last week with the DOT was to discuss the status of new railroad overpasses on Walnut and 3rd Streets in Mt. Carmel. He said the state is working a feasibility study into the state’s capital budget. It was hoped the feasibility study would have been approved in February, but that too has been delayed. The mayor said everyone at the DOT’s Effingham regional and state offices in Springfield all agree the overpasses are something that need to be done in Mt. Carmel.