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Sunbury schedules Cheshire Road work around school start; crossing beacons to be installed at two locations
Summary
City staff told the services committee Aug. 6 that Cheshire Road milling and paving is scheduled to coincide with school start dates, with milling planned Aug. 12 and paving on Aug. 14–15; flashing crossing beacons and ADA ramps are being installed at Fairland/Heartland Meadow locations with contractor work starting the week prior.
Sunbury City staff told the services committee on Aug. 6 that crews are scheduling road work on Cheshire Road and nearby routes to reduce impacts on school traffic and that pedestrian crossing beacons are being installed at two school-area crossings.
The details matter to families and school staff because construction overlaps the start of the academic year and the city is coordinating hours to limit impacts on buses and peak drop‑off times.
City Engineer Carla Sodebrasky said Cheshire Road milling is planned for Aug. 12 and paving for Aug. 14–15; she noted the contractor will avoid active school arrival and dismissal times, limiting disruptive work during 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on school days. Sodebrasky said, “the contractor is planning on avoiding being mobilized and impacting traffic, outside of 9AM and 3PM.”
Sodebrasky showed the committee a two‑site plan for flashing crossing beacons and ADA ramps near GRE and at Heartland Meadows. She said contractor Jess Howard will install concrete bases for the beacon poles on the Friday before the scheduled beacon activation and that the bases must cure; the city anticipated the beacons to be operational the following Tuesday, though staff cautioned that schedule risks remain. She said, “they're going to be installing the concrete bases, and then those have to cure, with the idea that they should have them up and running on Tuesday.”
The committee discussed coordination with school resource officers and the police department. Sodebrasky said officers had been briefed and that the police department’s parking lot will also be milled and paved; she said she would share tentative dates with the police chief.
Sodebrasky showed photos of Walnut Street stabilization work, guardrail installation and completion steps, and provided a timeline update for other projects in the streets program. She told the committee that some projects slipped from a July start into August because of weather and contractor availability and that a capital improvement plan and tighter procurement timing should help better control schedules going forward.
No formal committee action was taken; staff will continue coordination with the contractor, the school district, the police department and construction inspectors to finalize mobilization and activation dates for the crosswalk beacons and paving.
