Road crews start work on a big section of South Virginia Street on Monday night, and drivers should expect delays.
The main area they're working on runs from Plumb Lane on the north end to Patriot Boulevard on the south. After our record-breaking winter, Virginia Street has a pothole problem, so they'll be filling the potholes over the next three weeks.
"It's a band-aid really," Regional Transportation Commission Project Manager Doug Maloy said. "What we'd like to do is totally reconstruct the road, but until that funding becomes available and until that planning and design occurs we are going to be doing this kind of work."
Maloy said they just need this fix to get them through the next year, and after that they'll be able to do the full reconstruction project on the Virginia Street corridor. That's been in the planning stages for more than a year now.
Until then, they're patching where they can.
"We are finding just the worst areas right now to do that corrective work," Maloy said.
That means intermittent lane closures and delays starting Monday night. They'll be working overnight from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and they plan to keep access open to businesses in that area.
