Pole Installation Continues in Kittanning
The noise and vibration from this VAC truck could be heard for a block in every direction as crews from Keystone Enviro Vac Services from Leeper, PA drilled carefully at the corner of Market and North Jefferson streets yesterday in Kittanning.
Work continued yesterday in Kittanning Borough as crews drilled holes that will contain new light and signal poles.
The upgrade is part of the Revitalization program for downtown Kittanning’s Market Street. It includes burial of utility lines, old-fashioned lamp posts instead of overhead lighting poles, shrubery at each intersection, and new traffic patterns.
At the Kittanning Borough Council monthly meeting on June 6, it was announced that paving would begin on Market Street next Monday, June 13, and continue through Monday, June 20. To minimize impact on daytime traffic, the work will be done between 6PM and 6AM each day. The work will include milling down the existing roadway, rebuilding the base of the road as necessary, and then applying a top coat known as the “wearing course” of the roadway that actually seals the street and makes it smooth to motorists.
The Revitalization plan will also change traffic patterns coming off of Citizen’s Bridge and make Jefferson and McKean Streets open to two-way traffic.
It is not clear whether repaving of Jefferson and McKean Streets will be done this year or next Spring. Senate Engineering Partner William Braun told Council it is getting late in the season to book a paving company that would be able to complete the resurfacing before October.
Council also received estimates to pave a section of South Jefferson Street from Jacob to Mulberry Street. According to Braun, the initial milling and resurfacing would be no less than $90,000 and there would be other costs to fix several places where the base of the road is not stable. There was no action taken since no funding was available at this time to begin an engineering study.
Because of underground wires and pipes, the hole must be delicately drilled slowly with a special vacuum unit. A wire rebar mesh then is placed in a form to hold the concrete in place for lighting and signal poles.
Kittanning Borough, Local News | KP NewsDesk June 8, 2016
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