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One section of Seminary Street finishes resurfacing as another is planned for next spring

Resurfacing work is all but finished on a four-block stretch on North Seminary Street with another five and a half block swath planned for Spring 2017.City Engineer Wayne Carl says the street division is constructing the apron on Walsh Avenue off of Seminary but contractors have completed all their work.

Next spring’s work is bit more intense of an undertaking though.

“We’re reconstructing Seminary Street from Fremont Street down to the Bickerdyke Bridge and that will be a little bit different in the fact in that there’s not a good base underneath that section of Seminary Street so we’re going to have to tear away the whole street across and put a new concrete street across,” Carl says.

For the roads that were just reconstructed Carl said the roadway merely had to be resurfaced and widened along with reconstructing curbs and gutters.

Carl hopes the new section can get started in April and he expects it to run through much of the summer of 2017.

Sections of the roadway will be closed at different times throughout the process, except Losey to the Bickerdyke Bridge where crews will work through traffic.

Both rounds of road construction are being paid for out of a $10.7 million bond issue funded by a tax on electric and natural gas.

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