After more than a week of weather delays, crews for the New York State Department of Transportation began resurfacing work at 11 locations along Montauk Highway between Water Mill and East Hampton on Tuesday.
Where the work is being done, traffic is being re-routed or narrowed to a single lane, causing some traffic delays. Work takes place between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. each day.
Starting in Water Mill and moving east, work crews on Tuesday began removing the crumbling top layer of asphalt at each location, which leaves a stretch of the roadway rough and unfinished. The milling work at the 11 locations is expected to be completed by the end of this week, according to DOT spokesperson Eileen Peters.
The workers will then go back to the first location, in Water Mill, and lay down new asphalt to fill the gaps. A third round of work will be needed at each of the sites to repaint the traffic striping on the roadway.
“It’s much more efficient to do it this way than to do it one spot at a time,” Ms. Peters said. “Otherwise, we’d have to bring in equipment and do one thing, then bring in new equipment to do the asphalt—it would be much more time consuming.”
The DOT says it hopes to be done with the project by Thanksgiving.
Ms. Peters said the state is looking at a more long term resurfacing project as resources allow.
on Nov 11, 2010