90 Days (Eeek!) of Ponce/Scott Paving Begins Sunday Night
Decatur Metro | September 25, 2008 | 3:28 pmWondering when the DOT was going to make good on its promise to resurface Ponce/Scott (from N. Druid to Moreland) beyond just the ends of Scott’s side streets?
A thoughtful Thomas Wheatley provides the answer in the form of a DOT press release…
ATLANTA – A 5.7 mile corridor of Ponce de Leon Avenue/Scott Boulevard will be resurfaced beginning Sunday night, Sept. 28, as contractors for the Georgia Department of Transportation begin closing traffic lanes to accommodate the work from North Druid Hills Road to Moreland Avenue.
Work will begin on the two southbound lanes, with crews closing one lane and leaving the other open to traffic for a distance of about one mile. Once one lane has been resurfaced, traffic will be shifted to the finished lane and the second southbound lane will be resurfaced. Crews will repeat the process mile-by-mile to Moreland Avenue, where they will reverse direction and work in the same way on the northbound lanes.
Crews will work from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays. The work is expected to be completed within 90 days. Workers have already completed patching work and side street improvements in preparation for the mainline work. The work is necessary due to the wear and tear caused by heavy traffic along the corridor.
Motorists should anticipate lane closures with some traffic backup during the construction hours.
Can a grown man pull off “eeek!”?
The work schedule during non-peak hours is set to minimize the impact on traffic. Work zones will be clearly marked and motorists are encouraged to reduce their speed in work zones as fines will be doubled.
Motorists can access the Georgia Department of Transportation’s website, www.georgia-navigator.com, or call 511 for real-time traffic information. Callers can also transfer to operators to request assistance or report incidents 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
More information is also available at www.511ga.org. For information on the Georgia DOT and this project, please visit the GDOT Web site (www.dot.ga.gov) or call Rick Parham in the Office of Communications at (404) 631-1829. The Georgia Department of Transportation is committed to providing a safe, seamless and sustainable transportation system that supports Georgia’s economy and is sensitive to both its citizens and its environment. For general information on the Georgia DOT, please visit our Web site (www.dot.ga.gov).
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N Druid Hills to the Church St split westbound has been done already.
McClendon is so dead. Its not even funny how dead it is.
what a waste of tax dollars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The grey asphalt is now black…woooooooo hoooooooooo..I am royally pissed my tax dollars are going to this…just like the waist of money resurfacing the connector, it was FINE.
Sorry, that just reallly frustrates me. Seems like such a waste of money, especially in this finicial climate.
Recommend “AAAIIIIEEEEE!!!! ipo “Eeek!”. Eeeek seems more about just being startled, while Aaaiiieeee has the ‘Munch-Scream’ despair with which paving is so justly associated. (Sorry – don’t know how to do an umlaut on a laptop keyboard – NumLock, Alt 129 – doesn’t work! – AAAIIIIEEE!!!)
They did a long stretch last night. We had to close our windows due to the strong smell.
All westbound lanes are done all the way to Moreland Ave. However, the paving screwed up the traffic light controls and I got exactly one green light from the Ponce merge to Moreland this morning.
No work yet on the eastbound lanes.
Since the state is milling the old asphalt, many of the curbs will be further diminished. This means the water (if it ever rains again) will wash over the curbs. it is also alarming to see all of the loose asphalt that is strewn about. I suspect all of this asphalt will end up in the storm sewers and therefore our creeks. This isn’t good for anyone.
Sorry, I meant to say the State is NOT milling.
D, they ARE milling. If you don’t think so, take a look at the machinery being used (including a milling machine) and the fact that the curbs on the north side of the street, where the work has been completed, are still as high as ever.
Is it just me or are they almost finished with this already?
90 days? More like 9.
I agree….I travel ponce every day, and am shocked at the progress. Not to mentione the quality of the work done. I thnk whoever they hired did a great job.
Now, if DeKalb County would come and re-lay the loops so the traffic lights would cycle correctly.
I was thinking of this post earlier this morning as I was driving on Ponce. It certainly doesn’t seem like it’ll take ’em 90 days to complete the 6-mile stretch, does it? Hmmm, underpromise and overdeliver? Not bad!
Not sure if it’s the lighter-than-normal traffic or someone in DeKalb govt actually woke up and fixed it, but the light on Ponce @Lullwater seems to be working a LITTLE better. I’ve called the county twice to no avail before about the Ponce green light lasting only 45 seconds in the a.m. and p.m. rush hours. In the a.m., Ponce inbound traffic backs up past Clifton while the light stays red to let 2-3 cars from Lullwater out onto Ponce. I know it’s a 3-way intersection with the side street (Ponce de Leon Place?) from Paideia School, but that’s no reason to let the green light on the main thoroughfare short-cycle constantly.