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Show . . ' , . . . " -c ' FROM 24 FEET TO 92 FEET - Looking up First . venience for several weeks, but the end result was West street after city crews had finished widening well worth it. and repaving. The construction caused much incon- Street Prefect Finished to End Unsavory Situation The opening of newly-rebuilt newly-rebuilt Fourth North and First West streets Sunday morning was an occasion of relief and rejoicing to many Moab residents. The project which had been underway most of the summer was ended with finish rolling in time for Sunday church traffic. Cross-town traffic had been diverted through the crooked streets of Kerby subdivision, causing equal concern to drivers and residents there. According to Mayor Win-ford Win-ford Bunce, capital outlay costs on the road amounted amount-ed to about $8 thousand for oil, gravel and equipment. equip-ment. Men on the job averaged aver-aged about 10 each day during the two-week period per-iod of actual working time, or about 1,120 man ' hours. Rains, he said, stalled stall-ed work for better than a week. Preparatory work to the . lowering widening and re-paving re-paving project was done last fall, and included curb and gutters on 2 sides of the city park, in front of Helen M. Knight School, the St. Piux X Church, Turner Funeral Home, and Parkside Trailer , Court. Midland Telephone cooperated co-operated in the project by moving about sixteen poles from the street right-of way onto the city park, at a cost of about $2 thousand, thous-and, and abot 240 man hours. Residents marveled at the expanse of road at the street opening. From an approximate paved width of , 24 feet, the street was paved curb to curb, and is now 92 feet wide. Bower Circle Curib and gutters are. now being laid in Bowen Circle, Cir-cle, said Mayor Bunce; after af-ter they are completed tha city crews will tear out . the existing street and rebuild re-build it. FIFTH WEST ' The Fifth West Mill Creek crossing is scheduled for immediate smoothing, to make it passable again, he said. He noted that a permanent, bridge at that location will be built during dur-ing . the last half of 1968, . if the state will have available avail-able their portion of the building costs at the time. The bridge is estimated to cost $75 thousand, with Moab City paying 30 per cent of the cost. Center Street . A cooperative project between be-tween the city and county . this fall will be the squar- ing off of the Fourth East and Center street curve, a part of the old highway. A fenced island in the road, planted to flowers and tended as a Women's Literary Lit-erary Club project some-years some-years ago, has' now been removed. When the corner is squared and repaved, a 77 feef by 115 feet lot be longing to the county will be left. Said Bunce, ten-" ten-" tative county plans now are to sell the land. |
