The final “lift” of asphalt is being laid on Fulford-Ganges Road from Sept. 8 to 12, in what the contractor for the year-long improvement project is calling the “end of serious interruptions” on Salt Spring Island’s busiest thoroughfare.
“Crews will continue working on the road throughout September and October,” said Northridge Excavating Ltd. project manager Bob Mitchell. “[But] traffic disruptions will continue to decline as we close-out the project and put the finishing touches on.”
Mitchell warned drivers could expect heavy truck traffic in and around the project throughout the week of paving, but said with the exception of the northernmost section still under construction by Drake Road and Seaview Avenue — an incomplete section officials said is awaiting a final design — it would mark the “end of serious interruptions on Fulford-Ganges itself.”
“Further significant works will be paving the side roads, driveways and roadside swale,” according to a construction update Wednesday, Sept. 3, “but we expect the traffic disruption to be much less than the main-road paving.”
Work on those side roads will take place Monday through Friday between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., Mitchell said. Drivers should expect delays, note that the posted speed limit through the entire project — from Cranberry Road to Seaview Avenue — remains 30 km/hr and watch out for raised round steel castings in the roadway until paving is complete, he added.