Local Road Construction

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North of Greenville: M-91 at Peck Rd.

April 28, 2008 — M-91 (Greenville Rd.) will be rebuilt at Peck Rd., starting Monday, May 5, through early July, to add a center turn lane.
    Daylight hours, both directions will wait and take turns in a single lane, controlled by flaggers.
    M-91 will also be resurfaced south to Wise Rd.
    Project will cost $620,000. Was scheduled to start today (April 28), but MODT pushed it back a week.

White Cloud: M-20 between Catalpa and Cottonwood Aves.

April 28, 2008 — M-20 (Baseline Rd.) will be CLOSED both ways between Catalpa and Elm Aves., for reconstruction, until early August. Detour will be south to 40th St.
    MDOT will rebuild 7.5 miles of M-20 between Catalpa and Cottonwood Ave., which is two miles west of the Mecosta-Newaygo county line.
    After the first section, between Catalpa and Elm, is finished in August, work will shift to the easternmost two miles, between Elm and Cottonwood. Then the detour will move north, to (get this) 8 Mile Rd. and 9 Mile Rd. (old M-20) to connect Elm with US-131, until late September.
    Reconstruction cost $4.7 million, and build a whole new road, including filling in that dip near Poplar Ave.

Fremont to Newaygo: M-82 from Gerberville to M-37

April 17, 2008 — MDOT will rebuild M-82 from Main St. on the east side of Fremont to M-37 in Newaygo, including Warner Ave. and 72nd St., between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
    Warner Ave. will be closed between Main St. and 72nd St., for a complete rebuild of the half-mile between Apache Dr. and 56th St. (Wisteria Dr., Lake Dr.) Detour will be Baldwin Ave. between 72nd St. and 48th (Main) St. Project will extend the center turn lane south to 56th.
    Where it's not closed, M-82 will have one lane open and both sides will wait and take turns, controlled by flaggers.

Middleville: Main St.

May 7, 2008 — Middleville is rebuilding Main St. between Railroad and Church Sts., the main commercial district, through August.
    Main St. should stay open for most of the project, but tight, as both directions jam onto one side or the other. Give yourself extra time if you're commuting to or from the Bradford-White plant. There will be periods when both sides are closed and detoured, but you will always be able to get to the parking areas behind the stores.
    Trucks are detoured north to Parmalee Rd.

Kalamazoo: Stadium Dr.

April 25, 2008 — Stadium Dr. (BL-94) will be refurbished between 11th St. (just east of I-94) and Oliver St. (downtown end of WMU campus), starting Monday, May 12, through mid-June. MDOT will spend $1.5 million to grind and repave, fix concrete and make sidewalk ramps.
    No word on closings. Sounds like Stadium Dr. will stay open, but uncomfy.

HELPFUL LINKS
Michigan Department of Transportation (M-DOT): Kent County Road Commission: Ottawa County Road Commission: Kalamazoo County Road Commission: City of Kalamazoo:

North of Holland: Riley St. east of US-31

April 17, 2008 — Ottawa County Road Commission is rebuilding Riley St. between Beeline Rd. and 120th Ave., through mid-August. Riley will be closed both ways most of the time, and through traffic will detour south to James St., using US-31 and 112th Ave.
    Holland Hospital advises access to its lab, clinic and imaging facility in Lakeshore Medical Campus is from Beeline only, north of Riley.

Newaygo: M-37 north of Muskegon River

M-37 (Evergreen Dr.) is CLOSED north of Croton Dr. and the Muskegon River gorge, for repairs to the bridge over Pennoyer Creek and the train line.
    Detour west on Old M-37, Croton Dr. Not a big detour, but its capacity is small, and the turns tend to back-up when weekenders and vacationers add to the volume.
    This job is NORTH of town, and north of the big gorge. Another big reconstruction job is scheduled for M-37 later this year — grinding and resurfacing two miles, from the M-82 intersection at the south end of town, north to the big bridge over the Muskegon River. But that one won't start until after Labor Day.

Gobles: Northbound M-40 closed for reconstruction

April 16, 2008 — M-DOT is rebuilding just under a mile of M-40 (State St.) through Gobles, until mid-September. Southbound is open, but northbound is detoured east at 20th Ave., to 32nd St. Project will cost $2.5-million, and widen M-40 to add a center turn lane.

West of Kalamazoo: Parkview Ave. over US-131

April 8, 2008 — Parkview Ave. bridge over US-131 is closed until the end of June. Posted detour is Stadium Dr., using Drake Rd. and 11th St. For two weeks, sometime during this project, the intersection of 12th and Parkview will be closed.
    Parkview will be widened to add a center lane, and the intersection of Parkview and 12th St. will be rebuilt.
    Down below, US-131 will have short (20 minutes) closings between 8 p.m. and midnight, Thursday and Friday, April 10 and 11, as beams are removed from the existing bridge. Otherwise, US-131 shouldn't see too much disruption from this project, especially compared to the nearby mayhem resulting from the I-94 project.

Colon: M-86

MDOT is rebuilding the M-86 bridges over Swan Creek and Mill Race in Colon. Work started right after Thanksgiving, and will run through September. M-86 will be widened, adding a lane, and storm drain and water main will be replaced.
    M-86 (State St., Colon Rd.) is open, but both directions wait and take turns with a single lane, controlled by temporary traffic lights. Swan St., Goodell St. and Polk St. are closed and detoured. To go around the construction requires going all the way around Sturgeon Lake or Palmer Lake.
    By the way, Colon is the "Magic Capital of the World," and Blackstone St. is named for legendary magician Harry Blackstone Jr., who lived there. Locals say its name was chosen at random from a dictionary, or because the lakes look like the punctuation mark. Others say it honors Columbus, the way his name is rendered in Spanish. Either way, it's pronounced "COE - lin," like the punctuation (and the abdominal alimentary structure).
 

Jenison: Main St. between Cottonwood Dr. and Chicago Dr.

Preparing for the big new ramps that will connect the Ford Freeway (Interstate-196) with Baldwin St., Main St. was rebuilt last year, as were the local streets in "old downtown Jenison," and the access road to the Grandville wastewater treatment plant.
      Most of the part of Main St. that's involved will eventually be renamed Baldwin St. Formerly, if you travelled east from Cottonwood Dr., Baldwin ended at Cottonwood Dr., and it was Main St. east of Cottonwood.

Hastings: West State St. (M-37, M-43)

M-DOT this year will add a center turn lane to West State St. (M-37, M-43) from Cook Rd. west to the junction of M-37 and M-43 (Middleville Rd.). Eastbound side will be widened to make room.

Muskegon: Seaway Dr. traffic lights

Traffic lights along US-31 Business Route (mostly Seaway Dr.) are being upgraded in a project that will continue through the spring. Crew closes lanes and shoulders at one intersection at a time, starting at the south end and working north. Total cost is $1-million, will finish some time this spring. The lucky intersections:

Battle Creek: Beadle Lake Rd.

April 22, 2008 — MDOT is resurfacing Beadle Lake Rd. (M-294, Main St.) between Golden Ave. (G Dr. North) and Columbia Ave. (M-96), through late July.
    Beadle Lake Rd. stays open, but both directions wait and take turns in a single lane, controlled by flaggers, when they're working. Could include some rush hours later in the project, so think about alternatives and leaving early.

Battle Creek: M-66 traffic lights

Traffic lights are being upgraded at five intersections along M-66 in downtown Battle Creek, in a project that started in October and will take until August.
    Expect occasional blocking of shoulders and lanes, but the lane closings likely will avoid rush hours (you hope). Project cost will be more than $330,000, but M-DOT's not saying how much more. The intersections:

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