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Fairview Avenue Rehabilitation & Intersection Reconstruction

General Description

Project Background:

Through 2005, ACHD will be conducting various surface treatments and reconstruction projects along Fairview Avenue from Orchard Street to Five Mile Road. As ACHD is tasked with the maintenance of all county roadways, so too must Fairview Avenue receive its share of maintenance. While we certainly understand that Fairview Avenue is a major thoroughfare, periodic maintenance projects must be completed to keep this roadway open to traffic.

Project Location:

Fairview Avenue from Orchard Street to Five Mile Road.

Time Frame

Start Date: Late 2001
End Date: TBD

Impact on your Commute

2001 Work Completed

  • Fairview Avenue from Milwaukee to Maple Grove received a surface treatment referred to as NovaChip.  NovaChip surface treatment is a 3/4 inch, tough surface course placed over a crack seal project. This is a quick process that takes less then a day to apply and complete. Vehicles are able to travel on the surface immediately.

2002 Work Completed

  • Fairview Avenue & Milwaukee Street Intersection:    Improvements include adding right turn lanes eastbound, additional turn lanes northbound, and the addition of bike lanes on all four legs of the intersection.  Construction will extend approximately 400 feet along each leg of the intersection.  This will be a concrete intersection once construction is complete.  This project was finished early at the end of June 2002.

2002 Work Completed

  • Construction is expected to be completed by August 24, 2002.  

  • Fairview Avenue, Cole Road to Allumbaugh Street:  ACHD will be Rotomilling the asphalt surface and then overlaying the roadway with a new layer of asphalt.

  • Fairview Avenue, Allumbaugh Street to Liberty Street:  This piece of roadway will be Rotomilled and then have a layer of stress absorbing fabric placed under a new layer of asphalt.

  • Fairview Avenue, Liberty Street  to Curtis Road:  This stretch of Fairview Avenue will have all of the existing asphalt removed and then replaced.

  • Fairview Avenue, Curtis Road to Orchard Street:  This project is the most extensive of the roadway maintenance projects for 2002.  All of the existing asphalt will be removed, then 14 inches of the sub-base will be excavated and replaced followed by a new asphalt surface being applied.

2004 Roadway Work To Be Completed  

  • Yes, we are skipping a year between the roadway projects. In working closely with business owners along the impacted stretches of Fairview Avenue, the owners felt that by skipping a year impacts to their businesses would be greatly reduced.

  • Only two projects will be conducted during 2004 and both will be accomplished at the same time, however, the exact dates have not been set at this time but are programmed for the summer months.

  • Fairview Avenue, Mitchell Street to Maple Grove Road: The roadway in this area will receive a new asphalt overlay, potentially using a layer of Strata material placed between the existing asphalt and the new asphalt.

  • Fairview Avenue, North Five Mile Road to Mitchell: This project will be conducted in the same matter as the previous project.

2005 Intersection & Roadway Work To Be Completed 

  • Fairview Avenue, Milwaukee Street to Cole Road: This stretch of roadway will receive a standard overlay at this time.  The roadway will be resurfaced with concrete when the Fairview Avenue and Cole Road intersection is reconstructed.

Preliminary Development Roadway Work  

  • Fairview Avenue & Cole Road Intersection: This project was being considered for construction in 2005, but due to the high costs of acquiring right-of-way, the ACHD Board of Commissioners have opted to put this project in the category of what ACHD calls preliminary development. Preliminary development is for projects that currently have no committed funding, but are identified as a recognized need.

  • Improvements will include the reconstruction and widening of the existing intersection, and the installation of new traffic signals.  Because Cole Elementary School is located at this intersection, right turn lanes will not be added to this intersection in order to provide for the safety of the school children.  Right turn lanes and school kids do not mix. This will also be a concrete intersection once construction is complete.