So, E Gorham Street is closed at a time when many people will be trying to move in and out. How’s that going to work?
I asked the question last June and the while there were no provisions in the contract to deal with the fact that they could be pouring or blacktopping the street on the days people are trying to move, the staff worked with the contractors to make sure that there would be local access to the street for garbage/recycling trucks and those moving in and out.
The street is currently scheduled to be completed on the 25th, with Traffic Engineering installing signs and painting the following week, with the goal of having the street open, the day after Labor Day, September 2nd.
Things have been going well, and here is the latest updates:
– The asphalt binder was installed last week from Baldwin to Paterson.
– The segment from Livingston to Butler still has the existing asphalt, including numerous temporary patches.
– The block from Paterson to Livingston will be the only one with gravel for the downtown moving days this week.
– The contractor is scheduled to mill the street from Livingston to the west and pave everything from Paterson to the west beginning on Monday, August 18.
– The landscaping should be finished by the scheduled completion date of Friday, August 22, which leaves Traffic Engineering one week to install the street signs and pavement markings.
And . . . if Traffic Engineering can complete their work quickly . . . they might be able to open the street prior to the Labor Day weekend and first Badger football game!
This is going too smoothly! I’m afraid to hope that they might make this all work out! Many thanks to the many staff who helped smooth out many of the wrinkles during the closure of this major arterial through the Isthmus!
