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Route 1 Project - Weekly Update (7-1-14)

Posted on: July 1, 2014 - 3:03pm

Construction Update #8, July 1, 2014

 

The following information reflects what you are likely to see on Route One in Falmouth in the upcoming seven days. Please note that this is a projection based on the best available information at the time that it was sent and is subject to change due to weather and other variables.

 

WORK HOURS:

For the next seven days, crews are expected to work multiple shifts and hours, including night work. This will include from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays, and 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. during the evenings. No weekend or holiday work is expected during the period.

So that you may plan ahead: night work for some road crossings will begin on the evening of Monday, July 7 and will continue for the next two weeks. During this period, alternating one-way traffic will be required in all locations. You may expect to see intermittent delays during the evening and overnight hours for the weeks of July 7 and July 14.

Two-way traffic will be restored during daytime operations, which will continue during this period on its normal schedule. At the end of this week, weather permitting, areas where road openings occurred (on Route One, and on cross streets and driveways impacted by construction) will be repaved.

 

WORK CURRENTLY UNDERWAY:

As of Tuesday, July 1, work is occurring in various locations:

  • Installation of underground conduit and light poles bases between Waldo’s and A Perfect Smile (includes the frontage of 170 US Route 1 and Simply Home),
  • Installation of electrical manhole and underground conduit near Bernie’s Foreside and Mr. Bagel,
  • Initial sidewalk construction (gravel work) between Waldo’s and A Perfect Smile (includes the frontage of 170 US Route 1 and Simply Home).

 

WORK YOU MAY SEE IN THE UPCOMING WEEK:

  • Installation of underground conduits and manholes near Bernies, Mr. Bagel, and Wal-Mart (daytime).
  • Installation of a drain structure (catch basin) in the street in front of the Morong Falmouth Service Center (west side) on Thursday, July 3 (daytime).
  • Installation of new pedestrian light pole bases, between Waldo’s and A Perfect Smile (includes the frontage of 170 US Route 1 and Simply Home) (daytime).
  • Underground conduit installation across US Route 1 near F.O. Bailey and Waldo’s (Monday night/Tuesday morning; and Tuesday night/Wednesday morning).
  • Underground conduit installation across US Route 1 near the Morong Falmouth properties (Wednesday night/Thursday morning; and Thursday night/Friday morning)
  • Sargent is planning on crossing US Route 1 near Wendy’s and Pratt Abbott to replace a major storm drain pipe on the evenings of Monday, July 7 and Tuesday, July 8.

OTHER ITEMS:

Paving of prepared sidewalks, trenches within Route 1, and some driveway aprons, is tentatively scheduled for next Thursday, July 10.  Paving may occur in the early hours of the morning (5:00 AM) to avoid business and commuter disruption.

 

PHOTOGRAPHS:

 

One of the features of the project is improved pedestrian lighting. Attractive light fixtures will be placed every 100’ or so along the project area. This week, Moulison North is beginning to install the base fixtures for them. Here are three of them ready to go.

 

Here’s a base fixture installed – with wiring already in place. This unit is just south of Waldo’s, on the west side of Route One.

 

This is a plan detail of what the pedestrian lighting fixtures will look like.