By Glenn Hicks

Second Ave. roadworks turn northbound

Jul 3, 2018 | 5:00 PM

The city of Prince Albert is now over halfway through the big roadworks on Second Avenue, but with the focus switching to the northbound lanes on Wednesday morning motorists can expect further congestion.

Traffic will once again be restricted to just one lane per side of the road. However, the good news is this second phase of the estimated $1 million project will take about four weeks, two weeks less than the first phase which has wrapped up on the southbound section.

“The underground component of this second phase is much less,” the city’s Capital Projects manager Nykol Miller told paNOW. “We’re not replacing the water main, we’ll just be doing a couple of valve replacements.”

Miller added the scope of the re-surfacing work would be from 16th to 17th Streets West so that would be a block less than the southbound efforts.

Access to Second Avenue will once again be restricted with no side street cross traffic and no left turns onto 15th Street.

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Drivers of RV’s and those towing trailers on Second Avenue will not be allowed to turn in either direction onto 15th Street.

“RV’s and trailers can be on Second Avenue [during the work] but there are alternatives that will be less congested such as using Sixth Avenue East and then 15th Street, or 15th Avenue East,” Miller said.

Once finished the project, which secured over $500,000 in funding from the province’s Urban Highway Connector Program, will get one of the city’s major infrastructure improvements off the books.

“The infrastructure that was under Second Avenue was over 100 years old and the roadway condition was in a very poor state,” Miller said.

The work is set to be finished before the August long weekend.

glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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