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Canfield continues to improve roads
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Sidewalk work continues on state Route 46 north of Canfield city, coming from Austintown. The work is expected to be done by the third week of May and a top layer of asphalt will be put down on the roadway as the city continues to improve main thoroughfares.
By Robert Connelly
CANFIELD
Canfield continues to improve roads and sidewalks of main routes through town.
The Ohio Department of Transportation at the same time is beginning its work on state Route 11.
Joe Warino, city manager, said the sidewalk project ongoing on North Broad Street is the final step in phase two of three rounds of improvements to one of the main thoroughfares. He said ground was broken on the project last August and crews could have completed the project last year, had it been a more mild winter.
“We would have easily finished the project,” Warino said. The work is expected to be finished by the third week of May as well as putting a top layer of asphalt on the road.
Warino said 68 percent of the funding was funded through the Ohio Public Works Commission, with the other 32 percent being the city’s share. Overall, the second phase cost $650,000, and the first phase was less, about $500,000. That first phase was funded 80 percent through the state’s public-works commission and Warino said the city has applied for 68 percent funding for the third phase.
Girard-based Foust Construction worked on both projects.
The third section will not be able to start until 2015 due to the state’s funding cycle. Canfield’s city manager said that means funds for projects aren’t released until July 1.
Work has begun on state Route 11 improvements, a $7.9 million project. ODOT District 4 spokesman Justin Chesnic said the project is expected to be finished by August: “Resurfacing of state Route 11 from [U.S. Route] 224 to the Columbiana line,” he said.
The work on the state route will include eight bridge repairs with the top surface being replaced on each and no structural work being done on them. Chesnic called the bridge work “pretty standard for us.”
He also said there will be one closure during the project for 10 days, starting Friday for the northbound entrance ramp from Mahoning Avenue. The detour for drivers will be to continue on Mahoning Avenue, turn north on state Route 46 and take Interstate 80 east to connect to Route 11.
ODOT’s project is 80 percent federally funded and 20 percent state funded, using gas-tax funds allocated for road projects.