The city is asking residents of Delage Crescent to make alternate parking arrangements as a contractor spends the summer ripping up and replacing the entire residential street.
The crescent has been on the city’s capital plan for several years and will now be replaced entirely over the summer. The $1.3-million project will be divided into three phases – the western-most half of the crescent will be closed to vehicular traffic for approximately four weeks starting June 17, weather depending. The eastern half will be closed to residential traffic starting July 18 for approximately another eight weeks.
The two inroads that connect with Delage Crescent will be milled and overlayed but not replaced. That work will begin on Aug. 12.
Residents living in both the phases one and two will not be able to access their driveways by car, said project manager Brett Newstead.
“We are encouraging residents to find alternative parking elsewhere as there will not be access to their homes through their garages,” Newstead said at a project open house held at Muriel Martin school last week.
“They will be able to park and walk to their home via the sidewalks,” he said.
The city has also promised to increase RCMP patrols along Deer Ridge Drive to deter potential vandals.
The high water table in Deer Ridge is the reason the road is being rebuilt. The moisture has resulted in several freeze-thaw cycles that, due to the road’s “hard” construction, has caused serious cracking.
“The old structure we had was a rigid structure so it was more difficult for that to move, but when it did, it would cause fractures,” Newstead said. The road also extends a full metre down beneath the surface.
To better manage the water flow, the city will be installing small flaps of tubing, called wick drains, between the gravel and the road that will divert water into nearby catch basins.
Newstead said the rebuild is not related to last year’s emergency rebuild of Dalhousie Street, Dufferin Street and Duncan Court, in which the roads were found to have prematurely failed.
“Please give us your patience and we’ll do our best to get this done as quickly and in as timely fashion as possible,” Newstead said.
