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City details South Main paving, pedestrian beacons and pickleball courts schedule
Summary
City engineer Brad Holman updated council on a waterline completion, the South Main mill-and-fill paving project (bid opening next week), pedestrian hybrid beacons at two crossings, an 11-foot shared-use path and upcoming pickleball court construction with a June completion target.
City engineer Brad Holman updated the Bowling Green City Council on multiple planned and ongoing infrastructure projects, including a waterline completion, South Main paving, pedestrian hybrid beacons and new pickleball courts.
Holman said crews will return to finish a waterline project that stopped last year because cold weather prevented concrete pours. He told council crews aim to return in the next couple of weeks to patch concrete trenches between Ada Avenue North and Ordway. "We're hoping that, we're gonna look at the long range forecasts and make sure that we don't have any or more solved application," Holman said, noting crews are timing pours to avoid road-salt exposure.
On South Main, Holman said the city will solicit bids and open them the week following the meeting for a mill-and-fill from Ordway to Route 6. The project will include a 6-inch curb installation from Gypsy Lane to Napoleon, a new dedicated left-turn lane at Napoleon, upgraded traffic signals (replacing the city's last span-wire signal with a mast-arm pole), pedestrian heads on all four corners and two pedestrian hybrid beacons at a Circle K crossing and near Aldi. "We're putting 1 in at Circle K, and then we're doing the other 1 down by Aldi," Holman said.
Holman also said the project will include an 11-foot shared-use path on the west side of South Main from Gypsy Lane to Napoleon; he said the city will remove some sidewalk to accommodate the path but did not need additional right of way for the path itself.
On other items, he reported pole deliveries for the Wooster-Maple pedestrian hybrid beacon have been delayed and that the contractor for the community center's pickleball courts plans to start within a month, with a completion target in June and lights likely the last element installed.
Ending: Holman invited council questions at the close of his presentation; no contract awards or final bid decisions were made at the meeting. Council members did not vote on these projects during the session.
