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Starting May 17, Burton Street between Burlingame and Clyde Park avenues will be closed for seven days as. (pxhere.com)

By Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
joanne@wktv.org

Due to two water main reconstruction projects, the City of Wyoming will temporarily close Burton Street between Burlingame and Clyde Park the week of May 17. The street will be closed for seven days with all through traffic being detoured to 28th Street.

According city officials, the detour is necessary to complete work on two water main reconstruction projects along the neighborhood streets of Denwood and DeHoop avenues. Portions of these water mains cross over Burton Street. To reduce impact on the community, city officials said they planned the projects in unison to limit the cause to a single week. The closure is expected to last no more than seven days while construction occurs.

“We’re working with two separate contractors on this project to coordinate a closure that lessens the impact on businesses and people who travel on Burton,” said Wyoming Assistant Director of Public Works — Engineering Russ Henckel. “It’s important for people who use Burton for their commutes to find an alternative route during this short project. It keeps residents who live in the area and our workers safe.”

Local access to businesses in the construction area and residences will be maintained with detour through small neighborhood streets. Through traffic traveling across the construction zone will be detoured to 28th Street to avoid dangerous traffic volumes on small residential streets. Signage will be posted to direct traffic through the detour.

For more more information about road construction in the City of Wyoming, visit wyomingmi.gov/ConstructionUpdates.

Work on 54th Street is causing some delays.

By Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
joanne@wktv.org

If your travel plans include heading down 54th Street between Clyde Park and Division Avenue you might want to consider an alternate route for the next week or so.

According to Wyoming City officials, the work currently taking place along 54th Street is a gas line reconstruction. It is not a city project.

“Unfortunately, it is located under the eastbound lanes which will require them to take out both lanes of eastbound traffic,” said Russ Henckel, the city’s assistant director of public works/engineer.

The work is expected to take about a week, Henckel said.

This fall, the city will begin its work on 54th Street with plans to widen and add a lane to the westbound lane from about the Home Depot to U.S. 131 interchange. That work is expected to go through the July MDOT biding process and start in August.

The 54th Street bridge over U.S. 131 also will be widen as well along the north side to accommodate the additional lane, Henckel said. When that phase of the project will be started depends on the fabrication of the pillars and other requirements.

In 2020, the city will widen the eastbound lanes which is slated to include a direct expressway entrance into Meijer. Henckel said the city is working on the approvals necessary for that entrance.

For a list of upcoming road construction, projects, visit Public Works page on the City of Wyoming’s website, wyomingmi.gov.