More than $3 million in road work is planned this summer to repair multiple streets across the county.
The work comes in addition to major projects in both Greenwood and Franklin that have been ongoing for months, including the reconstruction of Jefferson and King streets in Franklin and Madison Avenue in Greenwood.
Work on the annual summer road maintenance projects is underway and will run through the fall.
In many communities, work is especially needed after a winter with a constant cycle of freezing and thawing that caused significant deterioration to local streets, Whiteland Town Manager Norm Gabehart said.
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This summer, the town embarked on its largest road repair project earlier this year, with about a third of the town’s 22 miles of roads to be repaired as part of a $1 million project. The town received a $750,000 grant from the state to help pay for the work, and is also spending about $250,000 of its own reserves, he said.
Once the work to repave and repair key roads, such as Tracy and Graham roads, is done this year, the town will be in good shape moving forward, Gabehart said.
In Edinburgh, the town’s road maintenance this summer is focused on a single stretch of one of the town’s most traveled downtown roads. Crews will be tearing up and rebuilding a section of East Main Cross Street as part of a multi-year project to rebuild that road, town manager Wade Watson said.
“This is a beautiful historic district in Edinburgh,” Watson said. “This will be a great new look and and restore some of the beauty and prestige of one of our great historic districts.”
Work on that $500,000 project is set to begin at the start of August and last through November. The rebuild will include new sidewalks, curbs, gutters and streetlights, he said. This summer, work is planned from Kyle Street to Clay Street, with work from Clay Street to Lind Drive planned for 2019, he said.
Afters years of minors repairs and resurfacing projects, the road is at a point where curbs are missing and is in need of a complete overhaul, Watson said.
The work is being paid for with money the town has set aside and saved for the project the past few years, he said.
Both Greenwood and Franklin will again spend nearly $1 million on road work this summer, with the funding coming from the money that cities and towns receive annually from the state for roadwork projects.
Franklin plans to spend about $906,000 for work on about five miles of paving and patching projects planned to begin later this month, city engineer Mark Richards said. The majority of work will be a thin mill and overlay, where 1.5 inches of asphalt will be ground off and replaced and paved over, he said.
But the goal is to do another similar-sized project later this fall, but what roads would be fixed hasn’t been finalized yet, Richards said.
This second project is estimated to cost about $1.2 million and be completed this fall. Franklin will apply for state grant funds through the Community Crossings program. But if the grant request isn’t approved, the money for the work would come from state dollars the city receives annually for road repairs, as well as city’s rainy day fund, he said.
Greenwood plans to spend $930,000 on a handful of road repair projects, with a focus on completing work in neighborhoods where other streets have been repaired in recent years, city engineer Daniel Johnston said.
A majority of the funding will go toward rebuilding a half-mile stretch of roads in the northern half of the Stonegate neighborhood, southeast of County Line Road and State Road 135. A road in a neighborhood north of downtown Greenwood will also be repaved, with new curbs and gutters. Four downtown alleys, which haven’t had maintenance for decades, will also be resurfaced, Johnston said.
Work on the projects is set to begin later this month and wrap up this fall, with funding coming from the state money cities receive each year for roadwork, Johnston said.
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Here’s a look at what local roads have or will be repaired in these five Johnson County communities:
Edinburgh
Reconstructing:
East Main Cross Street: Kyle Street to Clay Street
Franklin
Patching:
Acorn Road: U.S. 31 to Galaxy Drive
Sloan Drive: U.S. 31 to Bearing Drive
Paving:
Branigan Creek Boulevard: Branigin Road to Branifield Court
Creekstone Way
Fielding Lane: Branifield Drive to Creekstone Way
Roundelay Drive: Pelenor Drive to Lancelot Drive
Lancelot Drive: Roundelay Drive to dead end
Acorn Road:Â Galaxy Drive to Fairlane Court
Acorn Road: Taurus Lane to Ebony Lane
Lake Crossing Lane: Ironwood Drive to Shore View Court
Bennett Street: Cincinnati Street to dead end
Duane Street: Hamilton Avenue to Pratt Street
Duane Street: Cincinnati Street to Oyler Street
Howe Street: Yandes Street to Young Street
Ohio Street: Young Street to Ott Street
Monaco Drive: Dead end to Longest Drive
Jefferson Street: Dawn Drive to Weber Court
Milford Drive: Jefferson Street to Williamsburg Lane
Ridgewood Meadows: Williamsburg Lane to dead end
Williamsburg Lane: Ridgewood Meadows to Milford Drive
Leslie Court: Maria Avenue to dead end
Scarlett Court: Tamara Way to dead end
Tulip Drive: Tulip Court to Knollwood Avenue
William Avenue: Maria Avenue to Nicole Drive
Churchill Road: Crescent Street to Lochry Road
Douglas Drive: Roberts Road to Younce Street
Parkview Court: Younce Street to dead end
Roberts Road: Younce Street to Schoolhouse Road
Younce Street: Parkview Court to Washington Street
Breckenridge Street: Banta Street to King Street
Lemley Street: North Main Street to U.S. 31
Dawn Drive: Jefferson Street to dead end
Middleton Drive: Forest Park Drive to Jefferson Street
Sunmeadow Circle: Meadow Glen Boulevard to dead end
Vaught Street: Jefferson Street to dead end
Caisson Drive: South Main Street to Home Avenue
Center Street: South Street to dead end
Center Street: Champ Ulysses Street to dead end
Dunn Street: South Street to Pitt Street
Hemphill Street: South Street to Franks Place
Jackson Street: South Street to Ridge Street
Julia Street: Dunn Street to South Main Street
Pitt Street: Dunn Street to Jackson Street
Hurricane Street: Province to Arvin Road
Fairground Street: Jefferson Street to Madison Street
Acorn Road: Ebony Lane to Oakleaf Road
Charles Drive: Cumberland Drive to Hague Court
Chestnut Lane: White Oak Way to Alder Road
Cumberland Drive: Pamela Court to Dakota Drive
Oakleaf Road: Black Oak Lane to Alder Road
Greenwood
Reconstructing:
Apple Valley Road: Stonegate Drive to County Line Road
Stonegate Road: Stonegate Drive to County Line Road
Paving:
Horton Street: Farivew Drive South to Fairview Drive North
Four downtown Greenwood alleys
New Whiteland:
Reconstructing:
Hollybrook Drive: Between Dellbrook Drive and Sawmill Road
Dellbrook Drive: Between Southlane Drive and Parkview Drive
Northlane Drive: Between Dellbrook Drive and Princeton Drive
Paving:
Rypma Row: Oakland Way to Anjuli Court
Ball Park Drive
Grenada Place
Deville Place
Whiteland:
Paving:
Front street: Tracy Road to Whiteland Road
Graham Road: south of Whiteland Road to the town limits
Tracy Road: railroad to town limits
Meadow creek, Oakville and Brunnemer neighborhoods
Old town Whiteland
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