Road Work Series Pt. 2 – The City of Kitchener
Posted Mar 15, 2011 11:58:56 AM.
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The City of Kitchener is gearing up for road construction season with at least $20 million dollars worth of work on the to-do list.
Greg McTaggart, Manager of Infrastructure Asset Planning, Engineering, tells 570 News the City has fifteen roads to rebuild this year, bundled up in ten different projects.
570’s Mark Douglas reports…
The largest single project will be Huron Road, from Strasburg Road to Fischer Hallman Road: it will be reconstructed, enlarged, and urbanized, McTaggart says.
Ironically, the smallest project will be the most challenging: repairing another stretch of Hall’s Lane, from Gaukel Street to Queen Street.
McTaggart says it will be extremely complex, because the lane is very narrow, with buildings on either side right up to the edge of their property lines, with buried utilities under the Lane.
McTaggart says they can’t ignore Hall’s Lane because many commercial buildings and residences on King Street use it as an access point.
McTaggart says it was a difficult winter for Kitchener roads, with some bad freeze-thaw cycles in February — he adds all the potholes will give the work crews a good deal of work to do.
The road projects will cost between $20 and $25 million, depending on how the tenders come in, McTaggart says.
He says the first project should start in the second half of April, and they’ll keep working until the weather stops them sometime around November.
