Construction finished along Third Street
by Angie Asam–Staff Writer
After a month, the construction along business route 23/Third Street in Rogers City was completed last week. The lines have all been repainted and the road work signs are all down.
Rogers City has been busy with road construction this year as the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) funded a mill and fill project along Erie Street earlier this summer before doing the same on Third Street.
Downtown traffic and parking were disrupted for a few weeks as crews from Bolen Asphalt moved through doing the work.
Painting was completed last Wednesday and things are back to normal in downtown Rogers City.
IN A community development authority (CDA) meeting last Wednesday morning ,board member Tim Pritchard brought a concern to city manager Joe Hefele. The concern was over the large cracks he has noticed in the pavement along Erie Street between South Sixth Street and Third Street.
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In having that discussion, Hefele learned that with mill and fill projects with concrete underneath the new pavement, as is the case on Erie, the reappearance of cracks is inevitable. Mill and fill projects are basically a cosmetic fix more than anything.
The only way to truly eliminate the cracks would have been to reconstruct the road, a very costly endeavor. MDOT knew that the cracks would reappear it was just a question of how long it would take.
A call to the MDOT engineer on the project was not returned.