Those looking to travel down Richland Avenue during the next two weeks may experience some difficulty.
The intersection of Richland Avenue, Hooper Street and Carriage Hill Drive will undergo “periodic lane closures,” between Jan. 26 and Feb. 9 per a release from Athens Deputy Service-Safety Director Ron Lucas Thursday.
“One lane of traffic will be open during the work and traffic will be controlled by flaggers,” Lucas told The Post.
Closures are a result of work being done near the intersection by American Electric Power, the release read.
Lucas explained that AEP is replacing numerous electric facilities around Richland Avenue as a part of an improvements project the city is coordinating for the road.
The Richland Avenue improvement project upgrades will extend from Dairy Lane to Canterbury Drive, but AEP is focused on the specific section between Hooper Street and Carriage Hill Drive during the upcoming two weeks.
According to an earlier Post report, the $4.8 million dollar improvements project was contracted out to Shelly & Sands in mid-September, but wasn’t expected to begin until March.
The project was previously slated to begin in Sept. 2014, but it received no bids.
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