West Hartford to hold public info session on $2.25M Park Road rehab
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West Hartford Town Hall.
West Hartford will hold a public information session on plans it is developing for a $2.25 million project to rehabilitate Park Road.
The town Engineering Division will explain the project and receive comments during the session tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Room 40 of Town Hall at 50 South Main St., the town said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
The project will affect what the town describes as the “heart of the Park Road corridor,” located east of Trout Brook Drive and west of Hartford at Prospect Avenue. It is intended to improve safety and mobility in “an important gateway into town,” but will also fulfill the town’s complete streets policy.
According to the town’s website, the complete streets policy seeks to ensure town roads “complement and enhance the surrounding land use and neighborhood character and accommodate all users, including drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians and transit patrons, older residents, children and persons with mobility impairments.”
The Park Road project is funded by a $1.5 million state grant and supplemented by town funding, for a total estimated construction cost of $2.25 million.
The project will add numerous complete streets and safety improvements from South Quaker Lane to Prospect Avenue, including replacing approximately 4,380 linear feet of pavement, repairing or replacing select sidewalk sections, and replacing catch basin tops and non-compliant accessible ramps.
The project will also install decorative lighting between Oakwood Avenue and Prospect Avenue, reconfigure road lanes to accommodate bicycles, install new raised crosswalks, add and/or modify existing curb extensions at all crosswalk locations, and add new bicycle hitching posts, benches, landscaping, and signs.
Construction is expected to begin in 2025 and be complete by the end of next year.
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