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Safety Harbor's Engineering Department
has notified downtown businesses that renovations of Main Street
will begin in April.
Six downtown intersections will be
resurfaced with decorative brick pavers and four of those —
at Second, Fourth, Sixth and Eighth avenues — also will be
reconstructed with raised platforms that are traffic calming
devices designed to regulate speed.
The city has considered various measures
to reduce speed along Main Street, including installing additional
stop signs. Late last year the commission decided to install the
so-called "speed tables," which are not as obtrusive as speed bumps
or the rubberized speed "humps" that have been installed on a
number of local residential streets.
The project is scheduled to begin with
remilling of the intersections, which will involve grinding asphalt
to a depth of four inches. Brick contractors will rebuild each of
the intersections and then the entire street will be resealed. All
pavement markings will be replaced with thermoplastic material,
including edging markings intended to more clearly define traffic
lanes on the street.
The work will require periodic detours in
the downtown area
In addition to the street work, the city
will be renovating the Mullet Creek Bridge on Philippe Parkway at
the north entry to downtown. Steel guardrails are being removed and
will be replaced with a series of vertical bollards. The bridge is
being repainted and new lighting is to be installed.
Sidewalk also is to be installed from
Jefferson Street to Church Street on the east side of the road,
marking the first time continuous sidewalk has been in place along
both sides of the parkway from downtown to just south of S.R.
580.
Work is to be complete by May.
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