West Windsor officials are hoping to complete construction and re-open Meadow Road by the end of the month.
During his town hall meeting on May 19, Mayor Shing-Fu Hsueh told residents the work was almost complete and that officials target the end of this month or the beginning of next month for completion and re-opening of the roadway, which has been closed since last June.
The project, which began last June, entailed realigning the 90-degree curve so that Meadow Road from Bear Brook will go directly to the bridge and to Route 1 and Carnegie Center in a straight line.
The project also included the installation of new gravity sanitary sewer trunkline, with several new service laterals, from Old Meadow Road to Clarksville Road and construction of a cul-de-sac at Old Meadow Road (south of the apartments) and conversion of the east-west leg of Old Meadow Road to a service road.
Township Engineer Francis Guzik confirmed the timeline, saying that construction crews are finishing up the extension and widening of the road from the Bear Brook intersection to Carnegie Center Drive. “They’re focusing on that with the goal of trying to get that open by the end of this month or early next month,” he said. “Once that’s re-opened, they’ll be working on the Old Meadow Road cul-de-sac and probably doing punch-list items by that point.”
Hsueh and Guzik both said the project was delayed by a few months because of the winter storms and heavy spring rain in the area. “The extremely wet weather was more than what we had built into the schedule,” Guzik said.
Guzik said the sewers have been installed and completed, and township officials have sent a sign-off letter to the state Department of Environmental Protection indicating that the sewer construction was completed in accordance with state permits.
Also, “they redid the traffic signal at Bear Brook and Meadow roads,” Guzik added. “Most of that work is completed. Once the final pavement is done and the traffic markings are done, they’ll begin to re-activate the signal.”
At the point in the older version of Meadow Road, where it bent to the left, will be turned into a cul-de-sac. “Because we installed the sanitary trunkline through there, it will be left as an access road for Public Works to do maintenance work, but it won’t be set up to carry traffic like it used to,” Guzik said.
