Township officials approved letting contractors work on the project on Sundays due to the delay and the goal was to still finish the project in late November if there were no further delays, Opsommer said.ĭuring the project, Okemos Road southbound traffic is being detoured via Hagadorn and Dobie roads, he said.Ĭontractors have finished grading Okemos Road north of the bridge and placed concrete curb and gutter, according to a Nov. Work was supposed to start in February, but construction was delayed a month due to AT&T upgrades, including boring new ducts under the Red Cedar River, pulling new lines through the ducts and splicing the lines. The two current bridges are functionally obsolete according to current bridge design standards, the Ingham County Road Department said in a meeting notice. Hope intersection reconstruction, traffic signal and sidewalk/ramp reconstruction.
The $8.75-million project includes replacing the existing bridges with a five-lane, single-span bridge, and Mt. “Based on everything that we know, we're advising residents that it will be completed between mid-December and mid-January,” he said. Meridian Township Director of Public Works Dan Opsommer said Wednesday that due to the one-month delay at the outset of the Ingham County Road Department project, and concrete and contractor shortages, the project is behind schedule. OKEMOS - Although Meridian Township officials and residents hoped the Okemos Road bridge replacement project would be done this month, its completion date has been pushed back this winter.
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