ODOT puts final touches on state Route 11 project

Staff report

HOWLAND

The Ohio Department of Transportation’s $14.1 million, two-year resurfacing and bridge-deck replacement project on state Route 11 in Howland, Liberty and Vienna townships is 95 percent complete.

The contractor, Marucci & Gaffney Excavating of Youngstown, has suspended work until spring.

The project involved replacement of four bridge decks at the Route 11-Route 82 intersection and paving Route 11 from just south of Niles-Vienna Road to King-Graves Road.

Brent Kovacs, spokesman for ODOT’s District 4 office in Akron, said Marucci & Gaffney began the project in April 2010 and completed work on the Route 11 southbound bridges over Route 82 in 2010.

The remainder of the bridge-deck and paving work was finished in 2011.

Remaining work items involving the planting of grass, moving of dirt and repainting of lines in the project area will be completed in the spring, when warm weather returns, Kovacs said.

When ODOT announced the project in April 2009, it was the largest one coming up for Trumbull County.