While the southerly half of the Cherry and Summit streets intersection in downtown Toledo appears almost ready for traffic, winter’s arrival means traffic through the busy junction won’t shift until early March, the Toledo Department of Transportation said Friday.
When Summit’s reconstruction between Jackson Street and a point just north of Cherry began in late summer, city officials said the current phase of work was scheduled for completion by Jan. 16. More recently, that date was pushed back to Jan. 27.
But on Friday, Christy Soncrant, the city’s commissioner of engineering and construction, said Crestline Paving, the contractor for the $9 million project, said reopening Summit between Jackson and Cherry and shifting Cherry to the eastbound half of the roadway was now not expected to occur before early March.
No work is expected on the construction site during the next three weeks.
The new construction phase will involve rebuilding the north half of the Summit/Cherry intersection and a few hundred feet of Summit beyond that.