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2008 A Look Ahead
• Carlin Construction Company of New London, Conn., the town's contractor doing the $39.98-million upgrade and renovation of the Surfside Wastewater Treatment Plant must have this project completed by the end of June to comply with the Department of Environmental Protection's deadline. • With a saltmarsh restoration plan endorsed (hopefully) by the Army Corps of Engineers in December, the DPW is committed to some major yardwork in the island's mosquito ditches. Removal of old spoils piles that have been on the marshes since the ditches were first dug in the 1930s as well as ditch cleaning should begin in early January. On the road In the spring of 2008, the DPW plans to lay the final coat of asphalt on the following roads on which only the binder coat - the first, rougher layer of asphalt - was laid in 2007: • Bayberry Lane from Baxter Road to Sankaty Road • Rosaly Lane from Baxter Road to Sankaty Road • Vesper Lane from Surfside Road to Hummock Pond Road. Also in 2008, the DPW will fully pave: • Meader Street from Washington Street to Union Street • Liberty Street from the end of the cobblestones to Gardner Street* • Hussey Street from Centre Street to Liberty Street • Fairgrounds Road from Surfside Road to Old South Road * • Orange Street from Main Street to Union Street • Broad Street from Centre Street to South Water Street • Quaker Road from Milk Street to Main Street. *May be delayed for inflow/infiltration project A message from the DPW on the paving projects planned for these roads: "All property owners abutting these roads are requested to please contact the Department of Public Works if you are planning any work within the Right of Way. Any such contemplated work must be completed prior to scheduled paving. Street opening permits for excavation in newly paved roads may be denied. If you have any questions, please call the DPW at 228-7244. Under your own steam Bike paths, like road projects, are a product of up to 10 years of community need realization and subsequent support and sometimes Town Meeting articles, but always design, funding requests, securing of easements and then construction schedules. As such, the town is not cranking out bike paths in leaps and bounds. These things take time, as Transportation Planner Michael Burns knows, and are sometimes agonizingly slow. During 2008, Burns expects the following transportation projects to move forward in their respective varied phases: • Bike path connection between Mizzenmast and Raceway Drive begins in March • Also starting in March is a sidewalk running from the Cottage Hospital Driveway to the end of Dead Horse Valley Park • Bike path connector running from Hinsdale Lane behind the Nantucket Racquet Club, Small Friends, the Nantucket New School and Strong Wings out to the Milestone Road bike path should go out to bid in September • Last summer's traffic study consultants, Milone & MacBroom, Inc. of Cheshire, Conn., will produce a list of recommendations by March. Our friendly skies As Nantucket Memorial Airport's terminal renovations won't be completed until June 2009, air travelers will endure some transitional arrival and departure bumps in the tarmac during construction and see the building evolve: • Passengers and their luggage passing through security screening this year to fly on JetBlue, US Airways, Delta, Continental and Cape Air's flights to Boston and Providence can expect to do that in the four temporary trailers now sitting on the ramp • Non-secure Cape Air, Island Air and air taxi flights will operate out of the annex just west of the main terminal • Nantucket Shuttle will remain where it is • The existing ticketing area will be demolished • The terminal's addition at its east end should be complete with the gift shop moved there. I - Peter B. Brace |
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