JANESVILLE — The eight-month-long reconstruction of the Five Points intersection in Janesville should be wrapped up by Dec. 18, City Manager Kevin Lahner says.
Lahner told the city council on Monday night that the intersection will reopen to the public following testing on traffic signals, following delays due to the weather and issues with railroad permits.
Adam Kopp, a project manager with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, told The 69 in September that construction wouldn’t wrap up until at least Thanksgiving, more than a month later than anticipated.
Kopp said he had been speaking with the Union Pacific Railroad and the city of Janesville’ s engineering division daily since the discovery. He said alternative solutions were considered “and they just didn’t work.”
He said a storm sewer was closer to the Union Pacific Railroad line than was shown in a survey done ahead of the construction. As a result, additional permits were needed and led to the delay, pushing off the end date beyond the originally anticipated Oct. 17.
Center Avenue/U.S. Highway 51, Milwaukee Street, Court Street and Centerway converge at the intersection. Also crossing the intersection are Union Pacific Railroad and Wisconsin & Southern Railroad tracks.
The project consisted of upgrading traffic signal equipment, improving turn lanes, improving pedestrian crossings and island treatments, adding sidewalk connections, adding pedestrian channelization fencing, providing high-visibility crosswalks, reconstruction of the intersection and updating pavement markings.
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