Jun 5, 2018 2 min read

WAYNESBURG – A state Department of Transportation project to reconstruct all of the major thoroughfares through Waynesburg is expected to begin Monday night.

Construction crews will repave High and Greene streets in Waynesburg, the main east-west state highways through the borough, and Route 19/21 in Morrisville just outside the borough. Both North Morris and North Richhill streets in Waynesburg will also be repaved as part of the project.

A. Folino Construction of Oakdale will mill and resurface the roads on a night time schedule, beginning work at 7 p.m. and wrapping up about 7 a.m. each day.

The work is expected to take about two weeks to complete, depending on the weather, PennDOT spokesman Ray Deep said.

The project will not require a detour; traffic will be restricted to a single lane and be controlled by flaggers.

PennDOT, however, is asking residents to remove parked vehicles from the streets during the hours of construction.

The company, in a hand-out issued to downtown businesses, said it would attempt to locate owners of vehicles parked in the construction zone before having the vehicles towed. A company spokesman could not be reached for comment Monday.

High and Greene streets have not been repaved in a number of years. Heavy truck traffic has made sections of the road, particularly Greene Street, extremely rough for traffic.

Deep said PennDOT arranged for the work to be done at night because of the high volume of traffic that uses the road during the day.

“There is just too much traffic to do the work during the day,” he said.

The project, however, could still lead to some traffic delays for night-time travelers, Waynesburg police Chief Rob Toth said, although traffic on the roads is heaviest during the day.

“It doesn’t die off completely at night,” he said.

Borough police will be posting “no parking” signs along the construction routes, Toth said. Those who fail to remove their vehicles from the street may be ticketed, he said.

The project, which is estimated to cost $4.5 million, also included the milling and resurfacing of Route 19 south of Morrisville to near Lemley Road in Whiteley Township. Work has already begun on that section of highway.