CARY In several years, a roundabout might be controlling the flow of traffic where Crystal Lake Road, Silver Lake Road and Silver Lake Trail meet.

According to a pamphlet provided by Algonquin Township, the intersection north of town is a major source of delay for drivers and the township is looking to make improvements.

Currently the intersection is a four-way stop.

A roundabout is one of the proposals because there would be fewer conflict points or places where cars can collide, which should result in fewer severe accidents.

Other options include keeping the current setup, or putting in traffic signals.

Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Robert Miller said a roundabout would be a greener option as it would increase traffic flow efficiency, which leads to fewer delays and less vehicle emissions from idling vehicles.

The design also would not require the installation of traffic signals, which means less electricity and maintenance requirements.

Other planned improvements at the intersection include new storm sewer, curb and gutter, and sidewalks and crosswalks at all four approaches to the intersection.

The township also plans to reconstruct or resurface 300 to 400 feet of road in all directions from the roundabout, according to project documents.

The preliminary estimated price tag for a roundabout project, including design and construction, is less than $2 million.

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By C.W. WILKINSON / cww@laramieboomerang.com Friday, April 25, 2014

Construction of a new drainage system for the Indian Hills area is slated to begin as soon as the construction materials arrive on site, a city of Laramie engineer said.

The new drainage system is expected to help drain storm water from existing streets, as well as help prepare the way for planned subdivision in the area.

Indian Hills is on the northeast side of the city.

The project is slated to install a new storm sewer system beneath Indian Hills Drive and Grays Gable Road, which is expected to catch storm water from the scheduled development and existing homes, City Engineer Larry Ketcham said.

The drainage pipe will collect water from the neighborhood and move it to the detention pond on the Jacoby Golf Course, he said.

A detention pond is also scheduled for just north of the current end of Indian Hills Drive, and several storm drains are slated for installation at intersections along the street, Ketcham said.

Funding for the nearly $1 million project came from a financial contribution from the developer and the city, Ketcham said.

They (the developer) needed to pipe out, the city needed bigger pipe, Ketcham said. And so they met their needs, and thats what their financial contribution did. The city enlarged the pipe and we put inlets in so we can catch everything from the existing subdivisions. So it is a city project, it is not a developer project.

During construction, Indian Hills Drive and Grays Gable Road are expected to close temporarily.

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Mobridge Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Haden Merkel told the Mobridge City Council Monday, April 21, that the time is now to restore the murals at Scherr-Howe Event Center.

Merkel said because some of the timelines for grants secured by former North Central South Dakota Economic Development Director Christine Goldsmith will be expiring in June, the work needs to be done this summer.

We think we are ready to do the restoration, Merkel told the council.

The south wall (with the murals depicting Ceremonies of the Sioux) will be restored and the north wall (depicting History Along the Missouri) will be cleaned and an artist, Nickolas Ward, will refresh the paintings.

In the Chicago Conservatory report on the condition of the murals, concern is expressed for the murals on the north wall. These murals have suffered from water damage from condensation and leaking from the roof, heat, damage from basketballs, and have been extensively repainted. The repainting is heavier and darker than the original and is cut in around the original shapes on the murals.

Structurally, (the murals are painted on a rough cement surface) there are numerous cracks and areas where the walls are deformed. There are also spots where the concrete is crumbling. The far-east mural, Retreat is most severely damaged. This is also the panel that holds Howes signature and the year of the project.

The south walls are in better shape and there will be less repair needed to the structure of the murals, with the exception of where the basketball hoop brackets were anchored. There is also more damage on the western most panel, Social Dance will need the most work because it is within reach of the bleacher crowds. Large cracks near the railing have been repaired, but no restoration work was done on that concrete repair.

She told the council the decision should be made soon in order for Ward, to be secured for the summer. Merkel said she needs to find Ward a place to stay while he is working on the murals, in order to keep the cost of the project down. Having a home to stay in rather than lodging in a hotel would cut back on the cost for his portion of the restoration project.

Mayor Jamie Dietterle asked that Mobridge Chief Finance Officer Heather Beck and City Administrator Steve Gasser review the contracts in order to ensure the grant funding and pledges are available even though the installation of the bathrooms has been put on back burner.

Merkel assured the council Friends of Scherr-Howe (FOSH), the group formed to raise funding for the restoration of the historical building and the murals and to create the community center there, will continue to raise funds to install bathrooms on the main floor of the building.

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Road crews are working this week from Parrish to Charlotte County. Watch for closed lanes.

Drivers in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties are advised to use caution in the following areas where the Florida Department of Transportation says road construction or other projects are underway:

SARASOTA COUNTY

Interstate 75 from Sumter Boulevard in North Port to River Road. Crews widening the highway to six lanes. Watch for signals and barricades. Lane closures from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

I-75 from University Parkway to the Charlotte County line. Expect delays. Crews are installing closed-circuit cameras, roadside sensors and other equipment for an intelligent transportation system.

I-75 at Fruitville Road, Laurel Road, Jacaranda Road and Sumter Boulevard. Crews replacing overhead signs. Lane closures between 10:30 p.m. and 6 a.m.

I-75 at Jacaranda Boulevard and Laurel Road. Crews installing lights. No lane closures expected.

U.S. 301 at Fruitville Road. Lane closures this morning until 5:30 a.m. while crews work on building near road.

U.S. 41 from the city of Venice to University Parkway. Various repairs to inlets and curbs. Lane closures from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Fruitville Road from McIntosh Road to Honore Avenue. Intermittent outside lane closures from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. while crews inspect and repair drainage.

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Contractors for the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) are running about two months behind schedule on two major highway reconstruction projects in Montgomery.

Mike Pubentz, the village's director of public works, said he recently met with IDOT officials and was told that contractors now rebuilding and widening U.S. Route 30 between Briarcliff Road and Goodwin Drive are not currently expected to finish the project until late fall, possibly by the Thanksgiving holiday.

Pubentz said contractors were originally scheduled to complete the project by the end of August.

Nevertheless, he said contractors are continuing to work on the project and expect to install the highway's new eastbound lanes next month.

Pubentz said contractors will also start installation of a concrete sound barrier wall along the south side of the highway extending from Briarcliff Road east to Douglas Road.

The wall will be similar to the sound barrier wall contractors put up late last year on the north side of the highway adjoining the backyards of several homes in the village's Seasons Ridge Subdivision.

Contractors started work last year on the Route 30 project. When completed, the former two-lane highway will have four lanes of traffic along with protected turn lanes at intersections and a landscaped center median.

As part of the project, a trail for pedestrians will be constructed along the north side of the highway from Douglas Road east to Goodwin Drive. The trail will provide access for pedestrians and cyclists to the Oswego Public Library District's branch library near Goodwin Drive and the Ogden Hill shopping center just east of Goodwin Drive.

Contractors for IDOT are also proceeding with the reconstruction of the Ill. Route 31 and Route 30 interchange.

"They are also running about eight weeks behind," Pubentz said of the contractors, adding, "(But) they believe that the project will be done in 2014, a little bit after October, possibly in December depending upon how the work goes."

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EDMONTON - A controversial project some Edmontonians thought would never be built is slowly taking shape on a former downtown freight yard.

Construction began in March on the new $480-million arena for the Oilers, with excavators digging hundreds of truckloads of dirt a day to carve out the structures foundations. When finished in 2016, the facility will be 60 per cent larger than Rexall Place, and will have room for a couple thousand more spectators, as well as more washrooms, better technology and larger, more comfortable seats.

Some details are still being worked out how many and what kind of food and drink vendors, the exact features of the big scoreboard, what events will be held in the adjoining Winter Garden pedway but most of the plans have been ironed out.

Yet, the controversy that has dogged the project for years still isnt gone. On one hand, critics continue to call the arena a city-subsidized playpen for millionaire hockey players and their billionaire owner Daryl Katz. On the other, fans argue it will keep NHL hockey in Edmonton for at least another 35 years and kick off a downtown development boom.

So it doesnt come as much of a surprise that Katz Group officials now say that the talks to reach a deal didnt always go smoothly.

The city, we felt at the Katz Group, was focused on designing the arena to the hard $450-million budget, Katz Group vice-president Bob Black says. I think the city perceived the Katz Group as designing without regard to a budget.

But last year, the two sides finally came to an agreement. Then, PCL Construction had to guarantee it would build what was wanted for $480 million and eat any overruns.

To do that, PCL, project manager Icon Venue Group, subtrades and others that found ways to do work faster, cheaper or more efficiently. They saved tens of thousands of dollars alone by changing a bracket for a gutter mounting that cant even be seen, says city project manager Rick Daviss.

The facility is intended to provide a special experience to ensure people keep coming back, Black says. Ultimately, were competing with the big screen, high definition TV and our fans couch at home.

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EDMONTON - A controversial project some Edmontonians thought would never be built is slowly taking shape on a former downtown freight yard.

Construction began in March on the new $480-million arena for the Oilers, with excavators digging hundreds of truckloads of dirt a day to carve out the structures foundations. When finished in 2016, the facility will be 60 per cent larger than Rexall Place, and will have room for a couple thousand more spectators, as well as more washrooms, better technology and larger, more comfortable seats.

Some details are still being worked out how many and what kind of food and drink vendors, the exact features of the big scoreboard, what events will be held in the adjoining Winter Garden pedway but most of the plans have been ironed out.

Yet, the controversy that has dogged the project for years still isnt gone. On one hand, critics continue to call the arena a city-subsidized playpen for millionaire hockey players and their billionaire owner Daryl Katz. On the other, fans argue it will keep NHL hockey in Edmonton for at least another 35 years and kick off a downtown development boom.

So it doesnt come as much of a surprise that Katz Group officials now say that the talks to reach a deal didnt always go smoothly.

The city, we felt at the Katz Group, was focused on designing the arena to the hard $450-million budget, Katz Group vice-president Bob Black says. I think the city perceived the Katz Group as designing without regard to a budget.

But last year, the two sides finally came to an agreement. Then, PCL Construction had to guarantee it would build what was wanted for $480 million and eat any overruns.

To do that, PCL, project manager Icon Venue Group, subtrades and others that found ways to do work faster, cheaper or more efficiently. They saved tens of thousands of dollars alone by changing a bracket for a gutter mounting that cant even be seen, says city project manager Rick Daviss.

The facility is intended to provide a special experience to ensure people keep coming back, Black says. Ultimately, were competing with the big screen, high definition TV and our fans couch at home.

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Inside the Edmonton Oilers' new arena

The long-anticipated Lovell Streets Project in downtown Lovell will begin Monday, April 21, state and local officials announced this week.

Town engineer Andrew Mattie of DOWL HKM Engineering said work will begin on the west end of Main Street Monday with traffic control and work to remove the median strip between Hampshire and Idaho in preparation for the replacement of an irrigation water drain that crosses Main at that point.

Mattie said work on the irrigation drain will begin the following Monday, April 28, and the traffic control will direct traffic to one side of West Main while construction crew members rebuild the irrigation drain on the other side, then reverse the process.

Mattie said the irrigation drain should be completed by May 10.

The Wyoming Dept. of Transportation also announced the commencement of the Lovell Streets Project this week, stating in a press release that more than $4.9 million in highway improvements are coming to downtown Lovell.

The release states that work will begin Monday to remove the concrete median not only between Hampshire and Idaho but also between Oregon and Pennsylvania avenues on the east end of Main.

The two inside lanes will be closed to allow this (median strip) work to be done, WyDOT resident engineer Ben Steed said. These sections of median are being removed so traffic control can be set up to do the work on the east and west ends of the project.

Beginning Monday, April 21, WyDOT and the Town of Lovell are requesting residents to avoid parking on Lovells Main Street from Hampshire to Great Western avenues and also from Pennsylvania to Quebec avenues. This will aid the contractor in completing its work.

Weekly public working meetings will begin next week following this Wednesdays preconstruction scheduling meeting among WyDOT, the Town of Lovell, contractor Reiman Corp. and subcontractors.

The Lovell Streets Projects goal is to replace the 60-plus-year-old water and sewer lines, fix the deteriorating driving surface of Main Street and gain Americans with Disabilities Act compliance with sidewalks, Steed said.

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