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Repairs to New Road to be finished by July 4
TweetUnderdrains, catch basins and new pavement will be applied to New Road.
AUSTINTOWN — Part of a main east-west thoroughfare in the township will reopen soon.
A section of New Road between Meridian and Raccoon roads, which has been closed since mid-February, is expected to reopen by July 4, according to Marilyn Kenner, chief deputy Mahoning County engineer.
The engineer’s office closed the bend in the road until permanent repairs could be made because drainage problems made it impossible to keep cold patch in the potholes during the winter.
“It became completely deteriorated over the winter with potholes because there’s a lot of water being held in the stone that’s underneath the road. All the asphalt popped out and we couldn’t keep it passable,” Kenner explained.
The county commissioners awarded the $54,028 New Road drainage improvement project on Thursday to Foust Construction Inc. of Girard.
“We’re putting in underdrains, so that we’ll be able to drain the water out of the pavement and put it into a storm sewer. We’ll put new pavement over it. We’re also adding catch basins so that we’ll get the water off the road,” Kenner said.
The work will be tedious because it will be performed next to a high-pressure transcontinental natural-gas line, Kenner noted.
“New Road is a high-traffic area, and we’ve had a lot of residents having to take detours through residential neighborhoods which has sometimes caused great concern due to speeding,” said Lisa Oles, chairwoman of the Austintown trustees.
“The opening of New Road will be a lot more convenient and safer for the residents,” Oles said Monday.
In other business, the county commissioners awarded Thursday the $79,252 Ellsworth Road surface treatment project to Hughes Construction of Suffield. The work will be performed between U.S. Route 224 and Bailey Road in Ellsworth Township.
Traffic will be maintained during this project.
Comments
geez it's about time. I was starting to think new road would never open again
So when is the county going to fix up the rest of the roads they've left to deteriorate over the past few years?
There's a much longer stretch of New Road between SR-46 and Turner Rd in desperate need of resurfacing.
Kirk Rd between SR-46 and Penny Ln needs some work near the shoulder/curb where patch-upon-patch forces drivers to essentially drive across the middle of the road. The intersection at SR-46 and Kirk could use some work too.
There's Four Mile Run from County Line Rd to Mahoning Ave that's due for resurfacing. The bridge is abysmal.
And finally, Wilcox and Fairview Rds have been due for about 3-4 years now.
Well, that's the short list, anyway...I'm sure there are many more roads out there for the county ignore.
"mark", unfortunately, you have a better chance of hitting the Super Lotto Jackpot before that Santa's Wish List ever happens. Let me give you the process so that you'll better understand the money-flow. You go to work, you pay taxes, the County takes your tax money, they give each other a raise, grant themselves the finest Health Care benefits in the Nation, hire their family members throughout the various politically-affiliated county offices, they grant retirement severence packages for unused sick/vacation time up to in excess of six-figures, they buy two shovels and not enough cold-patch or hot patch, they send out a crew of four "relative's" (employees) at 8:30AM to start patching on a specific road, the crew stops at a restaurant first and has a full breakfast while reading the newspaper or they go in a parking lot nearby and get coffee to-go and read the newspaper in the crew cab truck, they finally arrive at 10AM to the location where they are supposd to patch, take caution signs out to set up that usually takes an hour, finally at 11AM they throw a few shovels of patch in the holes and tamp them down, then well, you know what happens at 11:30, its Lunch time, they leave for Lunch and return back at 1PM to fill a few more holes, next thing you know its 2PM break time, they head back for a cold beverage, and since it is now too late to return to the road they were patching they just drive around from 3-4PM until it is time to return back to the Shop to unload the truck and wash-up for 4:30 punch-out. The next day its a new location to patch, but the same old work detail agenda, day after day. Hopefully, that answered your request for road repairs in Mahoning County.