MEADVILLE —
Drivers negotiating the streets of downtown Meadville are experiencing short-term pain in exchange for long-term gain, Jim Cooper, the city’s assistant public works director, said Tuesday.
“We understand it’s a minor inconvenience,” Cooper said of the chopped-up appearance of key roadways throughout the city. “Hopefully, a week from now it will all be done.”
This year, the city’s annual paving is taking place earlier than normal, so drivers will have the whole summer to enjoy the newly-paved roadways, Cooper explained. In previous years, paving has been scheduled either shortly before or immediately after the Crawford County Fair in late August.
“We made a conscious effort to pave earlier,” Cooper said, noting that the city’s streets department hopes to continue the practice of paving in early June in years to come.
“It will be good for Thunder in the City — an August event sponsored by Meadville/Western Crawford County Chamber of Commerce — and all the area’s summer festivals,” he said. “We made a conscious effort to have these projects completed before the main summer activities begin downtown.”
Milling, which began Monday, is expected to be complete by Thursday, Cooper said.
Beginning Thursday and extending into early next week, the paving base coat will be applied along Market Street from Arch to West Center streets, followed by Grove Street between Williamson Road and Chestnut Street and then South Main Street between Linden and Arch streets.
By June 29, the top coat is expected be in place.
When the downtown part of the project is complete, paving will move to selected residential streets including all of Wood and Carroll streets and the northern end of Meadow Street. Work is being done under a $458,000 contract awarded by the city to Russell Standard of Union City.
Mary Spicer can be reached at 724-6370 or by e-mail at mspicer@meadvilletribune.com.
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