Changes to Sidewalk Protocol
The biggest news to come out today's (August 24th 2006) construction progress meeting dealt with the end of water main work and the beginning of sidewalk work.
Water Main
This might be the last time you see the "Water Main" header here on the MSP blog. Water main superintendent Stu Doty plans to have all his work down and crews out by September 1st 2006. Currently, all the small businesses on the south side of West Main Street (a.k.a everything from the Reverby law office to the car wash) enjoy water from the new water main. All the new main pipe for the water main has been laid down and crews are right now making the final feeder pipe connections from the main into the rest of the buildings on both sides of Main street.
The MSP understands that the water main work has taken much longer than expected. Originally what was supposed to only take two weeks extended into the end of August. The main reasons for the delays are the long wait to hear back from the New York State DOT about the open cut on Washington Street and all the unknown off buried items found by the crews. Water main crews found old cisterns, leftover debris from previous projects, concrete culverts, and pockets of fuel while digging under Main Street. Each of these finds represented a brief delay that added up. However, even with all the delays, the project has remained on schedule as crews have always kept up with their "doable" amount of work.
The MSP understands that the water main work has taken much longer than expected. Originally what was supposed to only take two weeks extended into the end of August. The main reasons for the delays are the long wait to hear back from the New York State DOT about the open cut on Washington Street and all the unknown off buried items found by the crews. Water main crews found old cisterns, leftover debris from previous projects, concrete culverts, and pockets of fuel while digging under Main Street. Each of these finds represented a brief delay that added up. However, even with all the delays, the project has remained on schedule as crews have always kept up with their "doable" amount of work.
Sidewalks
Sidewalk crews entered the Village downtown on Wednesday August 23rd 2006. This was as mentioned on both our blog and website and the August 23rd edition of The Trumansburg Free Press. The crews began their jobs by breaking up sidewalk along the Elm Street/Main Street intersection and along the sidewalk in front of Trumansburg Family Dentistry and the Village Office. This was to prepare the ground fro NYSEG's utility crews. NYSEG originally planned to wait for all water main work to end before moving in, but, in order to stay on schedule, they decided to mobilize just before the official end of watermain work. NYSEG crews plan to begin their work on September 5th and end by September 7th. They will refurbish the utility mains underneath the street.
Also, in order for the actual contractor's sidewalk crews to remain on schedule, Mayor John Levine approved on August 23rd 2006 the ability to dig up both sides of the sidewalk. This was at Economy's suggestion. Economy originally planed to rip up and work on one side of the street at the time, leaving the other side as an untouched pedestrian corridor. However, to make sure they do not lose any time, they asked if they could open up both sides of the street. This means that both sides of the street will feature lengths of temporary gravel sidewalks while Economy works on those sections. This does not mean that crews will be working simultaneously on both sides of the street. Economy cannot do that because of traffic management issues. Instead this means that both sides of the street will be ready for work, but crews will only work one side at a time. Hence, at least one sidewalk will always be open, but both sides might have strips of temporary patches/construction infrastructure. The MSP understands that this represents an inconvenience for pedestrians who might face temporary, uneven path ways, for a while, but the project does not want to lose momentum and have to entertain a construction extension in the future.
The MSP also realizes this changes the sidewalk information presented in a previous blog post, website entry, and the latest Main Street Report article in The Trumansburg Free Press. Please understand that this change happened after the article had been submitted to the paper and that the decision was reached the very same day as the paper came off the presses. While the MSP encourages everyone to use The Trumansburg Free Press as one of our communications pathways, the project also thanks everyone that uses this blog as a way to make up for that information gap.
Sidewalk crews entered the Village downtown on Wednesday August 23rd 2006. This was as mentioned on both our blog and website and the August 23rd edition of The Trumansburg Free Press. The crews began their jobs by breaking up sidewalk along the Elm Street/Main Street intersection and along the sidewalk in front of Trumansburg Family Dentistry and the Village Office. This was to prepare the ground fro NYSEG's utility crews. NYSEG originally planned to wait for all water main work to end before moving in, but, in order to stay on schedule, they decided to mobilize just before the official end of watermain work. NYSEG crews plan to begin their work on September 5th and end by September 7th. They will refurbish the utility mains underneath the street.
Also, in order for the actual contractor's sidewalk crews to remain on schedule, Mayor John Levine approved on August 23rd 2006 the ability to dig up both sides of the sidewalk. This was at Economy's suggestion. Economy originally planed to rip up and work on one side of the street at the time, leaving the other side as an untouched pedestrian corridor. However, to make sure they do not lose any time, they asked if they could open up both sides of the street. This means that both sides of the street will feature lengths of temporary gravel sidewalks while Economy works on those sections. This does not mean that crews will be working simultaneously on both sides of the street. Economy cannot do that because of traffic management issues. Instead this means that both sides of the street will be ready for work, but crews will only work one side at a time. Hence, at least one sidewalk will always be open, but both sides might have strips of temporary patches/construction infrastructure. The MSP understands that this represents an inconvenience for pedestrians who might face temporary, uneven path ways, for a while, but the project does not want to lose momentum and have to entertain a construction extension in the future.
The MSP also realizes this changes the sidewalk information presented in a previous blog post, website entry, and the latest Main Street Report article in The Trumansburg Free Press. Please understand that this change happened after the article had been submitted to the paper and that the decision was reached the very same day as the paper came off the presses. While the MSP encourages everyone to use The Trumansburg Free Press as one of our communications pathways, the project also thanks everyone that uses this blog as a way to make up for that information gap.
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