Road Work | Oct. 3-7

Waterbury

• Work is underway along Reservoir Road near the entrance to the Waterbury Center Day Use State Park. A section of eroding roadway is being rebuilt along with work to the adjacent drainage ditch and guardrail. Project managers have extended the timeline for the project so as not to disrupt traffic at the busy state park before it closes for the season. “There will be a few days with no access,” said town Public Works Director Bill Woodruff. “The state would like that not to happen while the park is open.”
  The heaviest work is planned to start on Oct. 11 given that the park is scheduled to close on Oct. 10.

• Elsewhere in town, line-striping on several local roads is still anticipated this season including Stowe Street. State crews paint yellow center lines and a town crew will follow to paint white fog lines along the shoulder. Woodruff said the hope is for that to be completed in early October.

Interstate 89 Richmond

The large culvert repair project continues just south of Exit 11 in Richmond. Motorists will encounter a one-mile-long lane closure in both travel directions as southbound traffic is merged to the northbound lane using a crossover. 

A “zipper merge” traffic pattern is now in place where drivers are advised to use both lanes until they reach the merge point and then take turns merging into the single lane of traffic, like a zipper closing. 

Crews have begun installation of the precast concrete culvert bottoms for the new box culvert and will continue placing them throughout the week. Work hours are 24 hours a day, six days a week. 

U. S. 2 in Richmond–Bolton

Resurfacing continues and motorists will encounter unpaved roadway along with sections of one-way alternating traffic during daytime construction hours, Monday–Friday.