Parts of Race & Findlay Streets to Close for Track Installation this week

The Findlay Market area of Race Street between McMicken and Elder and the intersection of Findlay Street at Race will close for three weeks beginning Monday, Oct. 27, so crews may install track for the Cincinnati Streetcar.

Access to Findlay Market and all its parking lots will be maintained throughout the closure, which ends Friday, Nov. 14.

Race Street will be closed at McMicken but local access maintained.

Motorists will be detoured south on Vine to Elder back to Race. Elder will be temporarily converted to one-way west. Findlay Street will be closed between McMicken and Elm.

Local access to the Findlay Market north parking lot will be maintained via Findlay Street.

Detour signs will be posted to help guide motorists around the work site. All pedestrian access will be maintained.

Additional work will continue in the area until mid December, requiring lane restrictions. Paving on Elm & Race is scheduled to finish Saturday, Oct. 25.

Click here for a map of access routes to Findlay Market Parking Lots. 

 

Block by Block Construction (Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2014)

MAIN STREET

• At 2nd: milling of existing structural decks (2 weeks remaining);
• 2nd to 3rd: Milling of existing structural decks (1 week remaining);
• 3rd to 4th: Duke Energy electrical manhole work (5 weeks remaining)
• At 5^th: Duke Energy electrical manhole work (5 weeks remaining)
• 5th to 6th: Duke Energy electrical manhole work (6 weeks remaining)
• 5^th to 9^th: Duke Energy gas services (3 weeks remaining)
• At 6th: Duke Energy electrical conduit work (2 weeks remaining)
• 6th to 7th: Duke Energy electrical manhole work (1 week remaining)
• 6th to 9th:  Water main installation (2 weeks remaining)
• 7^th to 9^th: Exploratory digging (1 week remaining)

WALNUT STREET

• At 2nd: Milling of existing structural decks (2 weeks remaining)
• 4th to 5th:  Level 3 Communications manhole work (2 weeks remaining)
• At 5th: Duke Energy gas pavement restoration (1 week remaining)
• 6^th to 7^th: concrete work at Stop #16 (2 weeks remaining)
• 8th to 9th: concrete work at Stop #15 (1 week remaining)

RACE STREET

• 14th to 15th: Time Warner Cable underground and overhead telecomm work (2 weeks remaining)
• 15th to Green: Asphalt resurfacing  (1 week remaining)
• Liberty to Henry: Time Warner Cable underground and overhead telecomm work (2 weeks remaining)
• Glass Alley to Sellew Alley:  rail installation (7 weeks remaining); existing pavement removal (4 weeks remaining)
• Sellew Alley to Henry: track concrete base work, Rail installation (4 weeks remaining)
• At Henry:  OCS pole foundations (1 week remaining); curb & sidewalk restoration (3 weeks remaining)

ELM STREET

• At Henry: OCS pole foundations (1 week remaining)
• 14th to Findlay: Time Warner Cable overhead telecomm work (2 weeks remaining)

 

Progress Last Week:

Crews perform a thermite weld on Walnut Street.  This process is used to weld two pieces of rail together. 

Crews perform hydrodemolition on 2nd Street at The Banks.  This process uses water to excavate the trench for the rail that will be installed on 2nd Street without damaging the bridge structures.   

Crews also performed final pavement restoration on Elm Street, providing a new, smooth road surface.