Thursday, September 23, 2010 - Busy, Busy, Busy ..... as long as the weather holds.

Good Thursday morning and welcome back to Dawson Road Today! Firstly, thanks to Robert for commenting on yesterday's post. I appreciate the feedback. You can review the comments either in the right sidebar or clicking on comments at the bottom of each post.You too are invited to add your comments to the post or comment on a previous comment. 

If you are doing any renovating, Rona Cashway has a big sale on this weekend on paint and laminate flooring.  Buy 2 and get 1 free. Sounds like a good deal if you need that stuff. Rona Cashway is located at 55 Dawson Road, so come on down.

In spite of the big storm Tuesday night, the crew were able to get in a full day's work on Wednesday. I was glad because they were making very good progress on installing the subgrade in the northbound lane. They had quite an assembly line going on Wednesday as you can see by these two photos. The first photo shows a long truck which contains the new subgrade material. The second photo shows more equipment in the line of production including a long flatbed transport with more rolls of the black drain hose. One of the large power excavating shovels removes the old road subgrade and loads it into a line of waiting dump trucks to be trucked away. The new subgrade material is then dumped into the excavated area and leveled by the front-end loader and a bulldozer. Remember, as we mentioned yesterday, flexible black drain hose is installed at the same time beneath where the curb will be. Another large power excavating shovel, fitted with a special vibrating packing attachment, is used to compact the subgrade. These pictures were taken midday Wednesday and you can see that they're working in front of the Guelph Medical Place. On my late night walkabout last evening, I can see that they stopped in front of the Hanlie Carton building.That seems like good progress to me.

I noticed that there is a large pile of topsoil put in front of Rona Cashway.That just screams to me of landscaping.  

We had a progress update Wednesday from Charles Groen, On-site Inspector from Pitura Husson.  It is expected that the curbs will be installed about October 1st.  What remains after that is paving and final landscaping.

While on my late night walkabout, I noticed something that concerned me. The Bus Stop sign, that as of late has been located on the side of the road in front of Guelph Medical Place, was positioned in the middle of the road between the northbound and southbound lanes. I realize that non-construction traffic should not be using the newly subgraded northbound lane but if history has taught us anything, we can't count on traffic to travel where they should.  I doubt that it was intended for patrons awaiting the bus to be standing in the middle of the road. Perhaps, someone of authority can remedy this situation this morning, before there is a problem.

Please remember that Edinburgh Road is closed from Willow Road to London Road and the Bus Number 22 that services Dawson Road has had to make some route changes.  For more information refer back to my post of last Friday, September 17.

We are getting near the end of the Dawson Road reconstruction project.  There are a lot of things going on at the same time on-site.  Please be patient for just a couple more weeks. Drive where you are supposed to and don't drive where you are not supposed to. Leave things alone that don't concern you.  Let the Construction Crew do what they need to do and stay out of the way.  The Crew has been diligent about keeping accesses to Dawson Road businesses open for the entire project and continue to do so. Do your part by following the pylons, slow down and watch for direction from the Crew.

It is safe for you to come down to Dawson Road, and we (the businesses of Dawson Road) would love to see you.

Brian
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