The list’s top project – a $3.4 million
reconstruction and five-lane widening job
onMemorial Avenue, betweenHighway 12
and United Drive – was undertaken in
2012 and has since been completed to base
asphalt, as was a $1.5 million project that
involved reconstruction and widening to
four lanes of Atherley Road between Gill
andEast streets in2013.
Next on the agenda is a multi-stage
reconstruction and widening project on
Coldwater Road, between West Street and
Collegiate Drive, that’s pegged at $3.5
million. Bowa said the initial phase of the
project would begin this summer and
wouldbe followedby phase two in2015.
The 18 projects on the master plan update
come with a composite price tag of $38.4
million.
Meanwhile, alongside the significant plan-
worthy projects are smaller, local road
improvements that occur concurrently to
the larger-scalework.
“The main arterials are the ones that we try
and submit a project for upgrading and
reconstructing, as per the master plan
update,” Bowa said. “We then, of course,
have local road reconstructions or smaller
collector and local roads along with the
resurfacing program.
“We generally do three to four projects
annually of a full reconstruction nature.
We’ll have a couple smaller local street
reconstructions that are needed. It’s a
matter of proposing and fitting it in within
the overall city budget.”
Going forward, at least some of Bowa’s
attention will be steered toward follow-
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