Planning Commission unveils extensive road improvements with 2019 schedule

Construction season is shaping up to be a busy one on some of Warren County’s most traveled roadways.

County Planner Dan Glotz discussed the projects slated for the coming months during a Tuesday evening meeting of the Warren County Planning Commission.

Perhaps the most visible are two that originate in downtown Warren–re-paving projects on Market St./Rt. 62 from Fourth Ave. until “where Old 62 breaks away” near Russell, according to Glotz, as well as Pennsylvania Ave. from the area of Market St. all the way to the Glade Bridge.

According to PennDOT data, the cost for the Rt. 62 project is $6,900,000. The Pennsylvania Ave. project is coupled with a project, also slated for this summer, that would repave US 6 from Sheffield to the McKean County line at a total cost of $3,442,932.

In the city, a bridge rehab will be completed this year on the US 6 bridge over Ludlow Street on the west end. PennDOT data indicates that the rehabilitation will cost a total of $1 million.

Glotz told the Commission that work would continue on Rt. 957, noting “some of that will be finished “ with the result being a roadway that is “newly resurfaced from Columbus all the way out to Lander.”

He said a “small, little leg on Rt. 69 (Jackson Run Road) going into Sugar Grove Borough” is also on tap for this season.

Looking to the western half of the county, Glotz said that work will continue on the intersection of Rt. 426 and Rt. 27.

Crews are “going to rehab the railroad bridge. It was just temporary patched for now. (This) will be a permanent fix.”

He noted that the intersection itself would also be reconfigured.

“A number of years ago, there was a fatal accident there,” he said.

County-wide, Glotz said ” “ – a form of concrete – will be applied “on sluice pipes that are going under highways” as a means of preserving and extending the life of the sluice. He said that work would be undertaken throughout the region.

A couple of slide areas – one on York Hill Road and others on Rt. 62 around Tidioute will be undertaken this year, as well.

“This is what’s in the works as long as the funding holds out,” Glotz said.