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the roundabout intersection to Woody’s Seafood Saloon.
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By Andrea Milam
St. John Tradewinds
The focus of the roundabout project will shift
later this month to Centerline Road, shutting down
one lane of the road leading out of downtown Cruz
Bay.
DPW is burying all utilities in the area, as it does
during most major projects, in an effort to beautify
the area. Project contractor Island Roads will work
on burying utilities beneath the stretch of road from
the roundabout intersection to Woody’s Seafood Saloon.
The Department of Public Works decided to postpone
work on Centerline, which was scheduled to
begin June 12, due to St. John Festival. Crews instead
continued to focus on underground utility work
at the Dolphin Market corner of Boulon Center.
Traffic heading westbound out of Cruz Bay will
be detoured to Route 201, which runs in front of
Boulon Center. Route 201 has been reopened to twoway
traffic after being one-way for several months.
“We were talking to (DPW St. John Deputy Director)
Ira Wade and he thought that because of Carnival,
it would be better to make Route 201 two-way
for a few days,” said DPW Materials Program Manager
Thomas Jones. “We thought that once Carnival
was done we’d turn it back to one-way, but the contractor
says he doesn’t need it to be one-way right
now. It will stay a two-way road until the contract
has to get back in that area, maybe a month and a
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Roundabout Construction To Focus
On Centerline Road This Month
half from now.”
Jones was relieved that the roundabout construction
didn’t affect Carnival festivities, he explained.
“All the roads were open and people were able to
get through,” said Jones. “There were no issues at
all. We were really worried about it, but it was as if
the project never even existed.”
Once utilities are buried on Centerline Road,
more utility work will be done in the middle of the
intersection, Jones explained.
“We have a couple inlets to put in that will go
through the intersection, and after that it’s all just
earth work,” he said. “We’ll continue to drop the
parking lot in front of Dolphin to its final grade, then
we’ll regrade all five roads and then we’ll start with
the asphalt paving.”
Construction is scheduled to continue through
June 2010, however the project could be completed
as soon as the end of this year. The roundabout
has remained ahead of schedule since Island Roads
broke ground one year ago, and now the contractor
has even more motivation to finish the project, as
they were just awarded another major St. John project
— North Shore Road.
“We ran into some situations where we felt we
had to make more of an effort, but we found out we
didn’t have to put in as much effort as we thought
to get certain things done,” said Jones. “It’s good
because it allowed us to get ahead of ourselves. We
haven’t run into any major issues.”
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