Twin City drivers will be spared the bulk of springtime road repair projects for another week, at least.

In Auburn, crews will be building sidewalks along Center and Turner streets, taking travel on Turner Street down to one lane. Similar work along Main Street in Lewiston shouldn’t slow traffic much.

But one of the bigger projects of the spring should begin the following week, when state crews begin repaving Court, Goff and Spring streets and Mount Auburn Avenue. The state had planned to repave those roads last summer, on the heels of a city storm sewer separation project.

“They won’t be doing any digging or blasting ledge,” said Steve Ranney, Auburn city engineer. Auburn’s project in the area last year involved months of digging and blasting.

“They’re just grinding the surface and putting down a new coat,” Ranney said. “There will be disruptions and interruptions, but they should move through it a lot more quickly.”

Work on those roads is scheduled to wrap up by July 31, according to Bill Bourne of the Maine Department of Transportation.

City of Auburn paving projects should begin even later in the spring. Project manager Jim Depalma said he hopes to wrap projects on Western Avenue and Vickery Road by June 1. Crews began those projects last fall and will pick them up again in May. They need about another month to finish them up, he said.

“We don’t plan on starting any new projects until we get closer to winding these down,” Depalma said.

In Lewiston, work on the Lewiston Public Library should keep Pine Street down to one lane for another two months or so. The road will be down to one lane between Lisbon and Park streets while crews finish exterior work and roof-top parapets. That lane should reopen once the renovation work moves indoors.

Most of the road work in Lewiston will wait until after spring cleanup, Public Works Director Dave Jones said. That’s scheduled to begin on April 12 and continue into May.

“Right now, we’re concentrating on getting the roads swept and other stuff,” Jones said. “As soon as it winds up we’ll get started on road work.”

Jones said 14 city roads will get a new layer of pavement this spring and another eight will be delayed until later in the summer. This spring’s projects are Deer Road, College Street, Randall Road, Grove Street, Highland Spring Road, Mellon Street, Judy Street, Poulin Avenue, Peter Boulevard, Nimitz Street, Lafayette Street, Balsam Street, Lemaire Street and Burbank.

But Jones said the city’s traditional road repair program will be much smaller than it was last year, due to a much smaller budget. The city budgeted about $1.5 million for maintenance paving and street rehabilitation. This year, the department has requested $450,000.

“So our list is a lot shorter than it was last year, and significantly less than in years past,” Jones said.

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