Summer Nebraskan, Thursday, June 30 1976 Page 5
Beautification creates
summer of eyesores
By Scott Nelson
If downtown traffic seems bad now,
wait until early September's State Fair
when Lincoln will be finishing its
downtown Q Place Project.
"Football and State Fair traffic are
problems we have to face every year,
and we try to stage our work around
those dates," said Tom Cast, a project
engineer for the Public Works Depart
ment. He said his department will repave P
and Q streets between ninth and 17t i
and all the connecting streets. Cast said
the work should be done around Nov. 15.
The major street work in other parts of
Lincoln is to be finished Sept. 15,
according to Rodney Schwartz, deputy
city engineer.
Schwartz added the date was only an
estimate, because weather and material
shortages could delay completion. He
cited the growing cement shortage as an
example.
He said cement is rapidly becoming
shorter in supply, although the shortage
hasn't presented a major problem in
Lincoln yet.
"I don't know how that shortage is
going to afect the individual contractors,
but I'd bet it will figure in this summer,"
Schwartz said. 'M? '
The major arterial work to be done in
Lincoln includes: South St. from eighth
St. to 46th St., Fremont St., from 56th
St. to 70th St., Pioneer's Blvd. from 43rd
St. td Highway Two, 48th St. from 600
feet south of VineSt. to P St., 27th St.
from Seward to Calvert St., Van Dorn
from Seventh St. to Ninth St., and A St.
from 63rd St. to 68th St.
Major intersections to be worked on
include 40th St. and Pioneer's Blvd.,
Calvert St. and Sheridan Blvd.. South St.
and 70th St., 56th St. and Normal Blvd.,
56th St. and Holdrege St., Cotner Blvd.
and Holdrege St., 70th and Holdrege St.,
66th St. and Van Dorn St., 33rd St. and
Holdrege St., 56th St. and Vine St.
Gerald Derby, head of street and
storm sewer maintenance said repair cf
minor surface problems like pot holes is
almost done.
"I'd estimate that we're 85 to 90
percent done on spring potholes," he
said.
Derby said he is now busy with several
compression blowups.
He said concrete expands when it is
hot and contracts when it is cold.
However, it doesn't contract as much as
it expands and over a period of two to
three years building pressure can cause
a compression blowout.
Derby said he is working on three
blowouts on O St., one near Cotner Blvd.
and O St., one near 42nd St. and O St.
and one a block east. He said he is
watching one develop on Cornhusker
Highway between 36th and 37th Sts. and
will begin work on it soon.
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Photo by George Wright
UN-L student Nasser Issa and Doug Malone both of Dobson Construction are working
on the Q Place Project.
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