(Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)

By Cam Lee

Smooth Riding

Saskatchewan Drive resurfacing wrapping up

Sep 26, 2019 | 4:42 PM

The project completed on one of Melfort’s busiest roads is almost complete.

Director of Development, Planning, and Community Relations Brent Lutz told northeastNOW the paving crew has completed the resurfacing of all of Saskatchewan Drive. They will return to the city next Tuesday to complete the work tying in to the intersecting streets.

“For the time being we will be placing delineators in the middle of the street to separate the driving lanes, and the street continues to be open to two-way traffic,” Lutz said. “Once the paving is completed entirely, a contractor will be coming into the city to apply the semi-permanent traffic lines, and once that’s done the project will be complete.”

The repaving was undertaken after the city received funding through the Saskatchewan Urban Highway Connector Program.

“We have been waiting for nearly a decade to see the improvement on Saskatchewan Drive through the city,” Lutz said. “I think even though it’s been an inconvenience to businesses and the travelling public that people are really beginning to appreciate the improvements they’re already seeing on the street.”

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Lutz does not foresee any issue with motorists speeding on Saskatchewan Drive’s smoother surface, citing significant traffic, vehicles turning into business areas, and RCMP enforcement as deterrents.

The project extends from the Highway 41A intersection on the west side of the street all the way to the railway tracks on the east side, just north of the Canalta Hotel.

—With files from Mat Barrett

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