St. Albert commuters will see one important route close and another open this week.
As part of the Anthony Henday project, the province is closing 184 Street between the Henday and 137 Avenue. The closure starts Saturday Oct. 1 and will remain in place until the entire ring road project opens at the end of this month.
The closure will allow 184 Street to be realigned onto a new bridge over the Henday. Currently, 137 Avenue is closed between 184 Street and Ray Gibbon Drive and that closure will remain in place.
When the work on 184 Street is done, access to 137 Avenue will be restored, said Alberta Transportation's Bill van der Meer.
The good news for commuters is that construction work on St. Albert Trail should finally end sometime this week.
Paul Szczepanski, the director of arterial roads with the City of Edmonton, said the paving and concrete work on that road is largely done and there shouldn't be any other major delays.
"It is virtually complete from a traffic impact perspective," he said.
He said the city is currently testing the roadwork that has been done to date, and if any of it is found not to meet the city's standards, then it will have to be re-done.
Szczepanski said there might be some detail work to finish up, but nothing that will force lane closures.
"We may need to do the landscaping, and things of that nature may get pushed over into next year depending on how the weather goes," he said.
The City of Edmonton also plans to tear up the road surface in some places to add concrete reinforcement at bus stops. While this may seem counter-intuitive, it is necessary to do it after the initial work is completed, he said.
Szczepanski said that work would only be undertaken if the city is positive it can be finished before the end of the year.
"One way or the other it will be fully open to traffic for the entire winter," he said.
Groat Road reduced on Monday
Further along the commute for some drivers, there will be a new disruption starting on Monday.
Groat Road will be reduced to one lane in each direction between 107 Avenue and River Valley Road to allow for repairs to an underground transmission line. That work is expected to take three weeks.
