UPDATED: Road Work | May 6-10
May 3, 2024 | By Waterbury Roundabout MAY 7 UPDATE: Culvert project on Gregg Hill Road is ahead of schedule. The road will be open on Wednesday, May 8, and school buses will resume their normal routes.
Springtime on Gregg Hill Road. File photo by Lisa Scagliotti
MAY 6 UPDATE: A Waterbury town crew will be doing a culvert replacement on Gregg Hill on Tuesday-Wednesday, May 7-8, in the area between 1395 and 1557 Gregg Hill Road.
The road will be closed by mid-morning on Tuesday and reopened to traffic at the close of business on Wednesday.
Residents living north of 1557 are advised to use the Stowe end of Gregg Hill Road during this time.
Harwood Unified Union School District buses will alter their schedule to accommodate this project. The district put out a message Monday afternoon saying that they would follow a similar modification as during mud season:
Brookside Primary School students should meet Bus 2 for pick-up at the north end of Gregg Hill Road at 7 a.m. or the south end at 7:10 a.m. Drop-off will be at the north end of Gregg Hill Road at 3 p.m. or the south end at 3:10 p.m.
Crossett Brook and Harwood Union MS/HS students should meet Bus 2 for pick-up at the north end of Gregg Hill Road at 7:55 a.m. or the south end at 8:10 a.m. Drop-off will be at the north end of Gregg Hill Road at 4 p.m. or the south end at 3:45 p.m.
Road Work is compiled from reports from the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTRANS), Waterbury Public Works, and other local highway departments.
Waterbury paving and bridge projects get started
The season’s first two road projects get underway in Waterbury this week with work starting in the Kennedy Drive neighborhood on lower Blush Hill and on Guptil Road in Waterbury Center.
Waterbury Public Works Director Bill Woodruff said that paving reclamation is getting started on Kennedy Drive, Ashford Lane and Acorn Drive. Those streets have been seriously deteriorating and were left patched after a major water line installation project last fall.
Once the old asphalt is scraped out, the surface will be left as graded and rolled gravel for several weeks, Woodruff said, before paving is done.
The other project involves major rehabilitation to a bridge on Guptil Road that was intended to be done in 2023, but lack of available contractors pushed it to this season. The bridge is the third one from the Rt. 100 intersection, just south of the intersection with Kneeland Flats Road near the Murray Hill Tree Farm, he said.
The bridge work is expected to be a 10-week project that will replace the bridge surface, membranes, guardrails and pave both approaches. Setup by contractor Austin Construction will start on Monday as equipment and supplies are collected on site, Woodruff said.
Once work is underway, “there will be delays,” Woodruff cautioned. The bridge will remain open to traffic during construction with alternating one-lane traffic. At some point, a temporary traffic signal will be added to the site, he said. Local residents will likely want to use other roads to avoid the slowdown once work is in full swing.
The schedule should have work ending sometime in mid-July, Woodruff said.
State projects
I- 89 & U.S. Rt. 2 | Richmond
The replacement of Bridge #29 along U.S. Route 2 over I-89 continues. Drivers on the interstate may encounter periodic lane closures with traffic control present to allow for one lane of alternating travel.
Motorists will encounter a single lane closure for both I-89 northbound and southbound passing lanes Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m.
U.S. Rt. 2 | Richmond
A roadway resurfacing project continues along U.S. Route 2 with nighttime paving from Sunday through Thursday, 7 p.m. until 7 a.m. Motorists can expect traffic control present allowing for alternating single lane travel on U.S. 2 between Kenyon Road and Lemroy Court.