Notes from 09/21/06 Construction Update Meeting

The MSP, Village, Economy Paving, and C & S Engineers held a construction update meeting yesterday (09/21/06) as part of their bi-weekly series of update meetings. Here are some of the notes that came out of that meeting.

Sidewalks

Crews from Geneva Curb installed more curb in downtown Trumansburg,
going past the Elm Street/Main Street intersection and up to the Village
Office. Crews will then fill the pits running from the new curb out into the
street with asphalt tomorrow. This will finish up the roadway work along
those sections. The areas running from the new curb to the residences on
Main Street (i.e. where the sidewalks are) will be poured next week by the
sidewalk subcontractor,  A & K Slipform. While those new sidewalks won't be
poured till next week, crews will begin to pour some of the top soil and
structural soil needed around those areas for the future tree plantings.

Those white, spray paint semi-circles on the southside of West Main Street
(in front of Word of Mouth Catering, Marshall's Laundromat, etc.) are the
lines that mark where the engraved bricks will be going. Everything withing
the semicircle will be brick and everything outside of it will be new
concrete cidewalks.

As new sidewalks come down it is important to resist the urge to write
and/or leave handprints in the fresh, wet cement!  Doing so does constitute
vandalism and the Village police have been told to enfore this rule. If you
want to leave your mark on Main Street then consider buying an engraved brick!

North Side

There is activity on the north side (Ron Don's, Gimme! Coffee, Simply Red,
Masonic Temple, etc.) of Main Street as well. NYSEG teams began to lay down
the conduit for new utility lines in front of the bank. Just as with the
water main work, crews were delayed when they hit patches of concrete and
old structures underneath the street that were not on the plans! The NYSEG
crews plan to cross Union Street on Monday and the begin moving up that side
of the street. A good tentative timeline is to expect them to be in front of
Napa by Tuesday (09/25/06), Gimme! and Kinney by Wednesday (09/27/06). That
side of the street is much narrower than the southside of Main Street so it
will be tight with crews on the sidewalk and the businesses there. However,
the same rules apply as the other side of the street and no business will be
forced to close. Economy Paving is also considering having a "pedestrian
flagger" on that side of the street to make sure people can enter the
businesses with crews in front of them.

The activtiy around the bank concerns the curb extension that will increase
the pedestrian areas arond the bank creating a small civic plaza. If you go
by the bank today you can get a good sense of where the new curb line will
be by looking at where the traffic barrels are placed.