Paving crews will be taking a break in Lewiston this week, but city crews will be getting ready for the next round of road improvements.

City Public Works Director Dave Jones said the city’s paving contractors will be working on projects away from Lewiston this week.

“But we still have to do the prep-work,” Jones said. “I have a list of streets we plan to do the following week, so we’ll be getting caught up on that.”

Main Street will be the paving exception, Jones said. Crews will continue working between Montello Street and Stetson Road. Jones said the work was concentrated near Mollison Way, headed north.

Crews should be doing prep-work on nine streets around the city this week, raising manhole covers and raising driveways. Those streets are: Hogan Road between Montello and Ernest streets; Fair Street from College Street to Central Avenue; Montello Street between College and Fair streets; College Street between Stetson Road and Lemieux Street; Webber Avenue from Lisbon Street to the dead-end; Cecelia Avenue from Webber Avenue to Dumont Street; Bobby and Bosse streets from Webber Avenue to Pineland Street; and Janelle Street from East Avenue to Stevens Street.

Jones said crews will also be inspecting work that wrapped last week.

“That’s just following up, making sure the driveways match with the new pavement and doing any fine tuning,” he said.

Water crews are scheduled to continue working along College Street from Union Street to Holland Street this week installing a new storm sewer line. And crews should also replacing a water line on Crowley Road. Old Webster Road will be closed to the Crowley Road bridge because of that work, Jones said.

Island building

Auburn crews will be building a traffic island on Court Street across from Auburn Middle School this week, according to Public Works Director Bob Belz.

Belz said the crews would be marking the area for the new island with traffic cones and then building it this week and next week.

The island will begin flushing the surrounding pavement by the school’s west entrance and then increase in height moving east.

“It will protect the crosswalk and force traffic turning left into the school,” Belz said. “Right now coming into town, we have two lanes of traffic. We’ll leave the outside lane as the through lane and shelter the left turning lane with the median.”

Belz said the new island should also slow down traffic on Court Street.

Crews will continue trying to finish work farther up Court Street this week, according to Paul Niehoff, city pavement management technician.

“The rain last week really messed them up,” Niehoff said. “But that is the only major project we have this week.”

Niehoff said that Moose Brook Road – formerly Turkey Lane – would be closed for about 2,500 feet this week will crews replaced a culvert.”

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