The summer season is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean the road construction season is too.
A re-surfacing project began Monday night on a 5-mile stretch of M-24 extending from just north of the Oxford Village limits to Brauer Road in Lapeer County.
Rob Morosi, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Transportation, said all the road work will take place at night and the project is expected to be completed by ‘late October.?
Road work will take place from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sunday through Thursday (with the road being completely clear by 5:30 a.m.) and from 8 p.m. to 9 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, according to Morosi.
Morosi said the only exception will be the Labor Day holiday weekend when no road work will be done.
When the four-lane stretch of M-24 in Oxford Township is being worked on, Morosi said two lanes will be closed while a northbound lane and southbound lane are left open for traffic.
In the case of M-24’s two-lane section in Lapeer County, one lane will be closed, while northbound and southbound traffic take turns using the other lane. Flaggers will direct and control traffic in these sections.
Morosi said the purpose of the re-surfacing is to ‘extend the life? of M-24’s pavement, which he described as in ‘good condition,? by an additional five to seven years. It’s part of MDOT’s ‘capital preventive maintenance? program, he said. The contractor for the $1.7 million re-surfacing project is the Wixom-based Cadillac Asphalt.
This is the second major re-surfacing project on M-24 this summer. Workers are currently finishing up a $1.046 million project that began in May. That re-surfacing project extended 4.9 miles from Clarkston Road in Orion to just north of the Oxford Village limits.
The project was supposed to have been finished by July 4, but Morosi said traffic from the NBA playoffs and major concerts at the Palace of Auburn Hills coupled with the rain delayed it.-