KANSAS CITY –
Northland travelers should expect a treat by Halloween.
Route 169 will open next week, likely before the mid-week holiday brings out the costumed trick-or-treaters.
The general contractor, Pyramid Contractors Inc., and their subcontractor, Comanche Construction Co., have now revised their anticipated target date for opening at
5 a.m. Wednesday, October 31, unless rain over the next few days significantly affects progress.
The contractors continued to take advantage of warm, dry weather to shave even more days off the months-long closure of Route 169. The workers not only beat the original contract completion date of December 16 by a month and a half, they kept pushing to get the project done and open before November.
“The contractors’ efforts are extraordinary, particularly considering the scope of construction and tight working conditions,” said MoDOT District Engineer Dan Niec.
The removal and replacement of about a mile of bin wall holding up the east side of the northbound lanes, the repair and rehabilitation of the southbound lanes, and drainage improvements were performed in an unusually restricted area that has an active rail yard on the east and the Missouri River on the west.
Workers are now constructing barrier walls and will conclude with striping just before opening the highway next week.
1 comment:
Still stings that it took about 5 years for our 1 mile stretch of Barry Road, and 45 Hwy and now Broadway Extension have whizzed by in record time. The wound is still tender.
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