The state Department of Transportation project to resurface Jericho Turnpike in New Hyde Park is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
That’s the latest word this week from DOT spokeswoman Eileen Peters, who said repaving of the roadway in Garden City Park from Hoffman Road to Herricks Road will continue into late August.
“The project is on time. It is going to meet the completion time by the end of 2013,” Peters said.
Tully Construction is resurfacing Jericho between the Queens County line east to Herricks Road during nighttime hours in the second phase of a $21.1 million DOT project.
New pavement has been installed in Bellerose between 225th Street to Remsens Lane and in Floral Park between Remsens Lane and Lewis Avenue, Peters said.
The project also includes reconstruction in daytime hours of the center median with colored and imprinted concrete and new planting boxes, installation of new traffic signs, countdown traffic signals and planting medians and sidewalks. Pavement detection loops, electrical loops embedded in the asphalt at intersections to regulate traffic lights, are also to be installed, Peters said.
Repaving work has been completed in Mineola, between Beebe Road and Glen Cove Road, the first phase of the project.
She said the progress of the project is subject to weather conditions. The concrete poured for the medians takes longer to set in warm weather and the heat also adversely affects the workers.
“The concrete needs time to harden. That is affected by the weather and humidity,” Peters said.
In coordination with the Village of New Hyde Park’s Operation Mainstreet project, she said the DOT also will install new irrigation systems with planting beds in seven new median islands between Hillside Boulevard.
Village Trustee Donald Barbieri said earlier this week he’s still awaiting word from the DOT on its review of a low bidder for the work remaining to be done on Operation Mainstreet.
Barbieri has said the board conducted “due diligence” on the low bidder, Bohemia-based J. Anthony Enterprises, which submitted a bid of $1.46 million to do the final stage of upgrades.
This week he said he was hoping to receive a approval of the low bid for the village project in a matter of days.
Operation Mainstreet is being funded through a federal transportation appropriation of $1.425 million secured by U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy under the community block grant program.
