Emerald Parkway Construction
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- Created: 11 January 2011
UPDATED JULY 2012 (Updates in BOLD)
If you use Emerald Parkway to get to Tuttle Crossing Blvd. orange barrels, lane restrictions and intermittent flagmen are now a part of your life, at least until summer 2013.
The City of Dublin announced that a grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission of more than 4 million dollars became available July 1, 2010 to help pay for the widening of Emerald Parkway between Rings Road and Tuttle Crossing. Actual road construction was scheduled to begin in the spring of 2011, but the project was delayed. Design took longer than anticipated, from December 2008-September 2011. Utility relocation took place in 2011. Construction began in June 2012 with the project to be completed no later than fall 2013.
The City of Dublin announced that a grant from the Ohio Public Works Commission of more than 4 million dollars became available July 1, 2010 to help pay for the widening of Emerald Parkway between Rings Road and Tuttle Crossing. Actual road construction was scheduled to begin in the spring of 2011, but the project was delayed. Design took longer than anticipated, from December 2008-September 2011. Utility relocation took place in 2011. Construction began in June 2012 with the project to be completed no later than fall 2013.
The rest of the nearly 8 million dollar project will be paid for by the City of Dublin ($1.3 million) and the City of Columbus ($2 million). Sixty per cent of this stretch of road is in Columbus and 40 per cent is in Dublin. [Click on the map to enlarge the image]The project will widen Emerald to a four-lane boulevard. The road is currently 2 lanes in some areas, 3 lanes in others. Improvements will include street lights, medians, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, a bicycle path and roundabouts at Lakehurst Court and Glendon Court. Previously it was announced that traffic signals would be placed at these intersections. The completed project will reduce traffic congestion, improve safety and drainage and will add pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
Below is an artist's rendering of what the intersection of Emerald and Lakehurst will look like after the roundabout installation. For a larger image, please click on the picture. Click here for additional images.
The City of Columbus project manager is Carl Walters, P.E. 614-645-7858.
