Paving of N. McDonough and Other Downtown Streets Begins Today
Decatur Metro | July 25, 2017 | 7:50 am
In a race to avoid paving during the looming school year (1 week away! Where can I get 20 Ticonderoga pencils?!), the City of Decatur is planning to pave a bunch of the under-construction streets of downtown this week, including the city’s biggest street project of late, North McDonough.
Other streets due for the ol’ black asphalt makeover include the loop at Barry Street, N. Candler and E Howard (but not Pate Street! Gravel4life!) and the railroad intersections at N. McDonough and S.Candler. Say what you want about Decatur construction, that’s some serious paving coordination right there.
The Extreme Makeover website says that you should expect lane closures on North McDonough and the railroad intersections during the paving over the next 2-3 days, but two-way traffic will remain open. Access to Barry, N. Candler and E Howard will stilll be extremely limited, but what else is new. 🙂
Paving was supposed to begin yesterday, but I didn’t get this post up in time so they delayed it. Just kidding. They say it was due to rain or something.
Almost there!
Old N. McDonough construction photo courtesy of DM
They waited until the last minute to do this. For a city with the highest taxes & all kinds of cute streetscapes, why can’t they do better planning & not restrict 2 major intersections at the same time? Last planning at it’s absolute worst. Your government at work.
Regarding closing both intersections at once, I can’t believe CSX would be open to closing a major rail line twice to pave two different intersections right next to each other. That’s likely why they’re being closed at the same time.
That’s correct. The city has no control over CSX operations and CSX specifically chose to do them both at once to limit downtime.
Your private railroad at work.