Road construction season to kick off soon
Portions of Ohio 41 and U.S. 40 to be repaved
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
SPRINGFIELD — The familiar signs of spring and summer will soon spring up — orange barrels and trucks.
The road construction season is about to be in full swing and several projects will be going on in the city of Springfield.
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The state will be repaving Ohio 41 and U.S. 40, with the city paying 20 percent of the $550,000 cost.
Ohio 41 will be redone north of the Buck Creek bridge out west to the city corporation line.
U.S. 40 will be worked on between Upper Valley Pike and Bechtle Avenue.
Both projects should start in mid-June and last about a month.
Construction on the new Sherman Avenue bridge also should wrap up in mid-July.
The project to replace the nearly 100-year-old bridge that couldn't be brought up to current standards started last summer. The state paid about $2.6 million to replace the bridge.
Residents driving on the long-detoured road and biking on the trail should be happy when it reopens, City Engineer Leo Shanayda said.
The two major road projects the city is paying for this year are repaving Fountain Avenue and the neighborhood streets program.
Those projects should start in June or July, Shanayda said, and continue through September.
Fountain Avenue will be worked on between Harding and Home roads and will cost about $350,000.
The neighborhood streets to be repaired include several roads east of St. Paris Pike and south of Home Road.
That work will cost about $740,000, up from recent years' spending on neighborhood streets but down from a high of $1.3 million.
Add to that the increase in asphalt prices and that cuts down on how much street repairs the city can do, Shanayda said.
"You can't buy as much as you could before," he said.
Contact this reporter at (937) 328-0363 or ssommer@coxohio.com.
