Roads around Myers Park High getting resurfaced

More projects will be approved later this year

by Mike Parks

A group of roads will be resurfaced around Myers Park High School later this year as part of a package of projects approved Monday night, Jan. 23, by Charlotte City Council.

Stretches of four roads – Arcadia Avenue, Colony Road, Winding Wood Lane and Woodhaven Road – will be resurfaced as part of the approved project. All four roads are around the high school campus and are used in the morning and afternoon school rush hours. Two additional projects in south Charlotte, on Devon Drive and Wimbledon Road, also were approved Monday night. Those roads are near the school, but closer to the Park Road shopping center.

This is the first of two planned resurfacing contracts for this year. The city will pay Blythe Construction around $4.2 million to do resurfacing work on about 19 miles of roads in all. That work will include traffic control, asphalt and concrete pavement milling, asphalt surface treatment, sidewalk repair and maintenance and more depending on what each road needs.

The city is expected to consider the second part of the annual resurfacing project, for around 40 additional miles of roads, in late March.

Work in south Charlotte will include these segments:

• Arcadia Avenue, from Colony Road to Winding Wood Lane.

• Colony Road, from Selwyn Avenue to Runnymede Lane. Part of the project will include about 50 feet of curb repair.

• Devon Drive, from Willow Oak Road to Mar Vista Circle.

• Wimbledon Road, from Paddock Circle to Bevis Drive.

• Winding Wood Lane, from Arcadia Avenue to the end of the cul-de-sac. Part of the project will include about 75 feet of curb repair.

• Woodhaven Road, from Foxcroft Woods Lane to Sharon Road.

Jeff Black, with the city’s transportation department, said the contract states that work done around schools should be done as much over the summer break – mid June to the beginning of August – as possible to avoid causing traffic nightmares around the campus. But weather and delays can often throw plans into disarray.

Black says survey teams hit the area every couple years to evaluate streets and contribute to a ranking for each road in terms of how badly work is needed. Streets are then picked for work on a yearly basis.