6/13/14 - Good times on Grand River likely wonât be had by those traveling through the Howell and Brighton areas this summer. This week marked the kick-off of a two-mile rehabilitation project along Grand River from roughly Hughes Road to Hacker Road. The Livingston County Road Commission has begun work to update the roadway, which is about 25 years old and just now getting its first facelift according to Managing Director Mike Craine. He tells WHMI itâs a big project and one lane of traffic will be open in each direction on one side of the road or the other until mid-August. Craine says this is probably the most inconvenient phase since they donât have much room to maintain traffic and have only one lane of Grand River open in each direction, which is why the work was postponed until school let out for the summer. The project was actually let out to bid last fall and qualified for some special funding designated by the legislature but Craine says they decided to hold off until construction had wrapped up on Latson Road and the interchange was open, hence why the Grand River job was phased in here. Work involves repairing curbs and some driveways at key points, milling out existing asphalt and then resurfacing. He says driveways will be done part-width, meaning they will not be closing any driveways but rather working on each one-half at a time. When this phase of the project is complete, crews will pick up where they left off and start the same work along Grand River from just east of Hacker Road, down to the I-96 interchange. Since the work is on Grand River, Craine says the detour for Howell and Brighton trips is really the freeway. During the course of the construction this summer, he asks that local motorists mind speeds and be aware of workers and equipment. (JM)
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