Commuters who regularly use St. Clair Street in Chatham can take heart – it’s almost over.
The “it” is the construction between the Third Street bridge and McNaughton Avenue.
Nelson Cavacas, municipal manager of infrastructure and development engineering, said if the weather co-operates, he anticipates all the paving being completed by the end of the weekend.
Today, crews are paving the northbound lanes of St. Clair up to the McNaughton Avenue intersection.
Cavacas said on Sunday overnight, the plan is to pave that intersection. That late-night paving is what took place the previous weekend at the Grand/St. Clair intersection.
Doing the work at that time of day, and on the weekend, minimizes the number of vehicles impacted, he said
All that should remain next week is some line painting along the roadway, as well as a few upgrades to traffic signals, Cavacas added.
“It’s coming to a close real soon.”
Following three months of construction in the fall, crews were back on St. Clair in late April.
They better repair all the side streets the decimated with the trucks and heavy equipment. Cornhill is a wreck, probably 30 feet back from where they actually tore up.