Gilroy
– What do the Energizer Bunny and construction in Gilroy have in
common? They both keep going and going and going …
Striped barricades and orange cones lining Monterey Street and
other city roads have become a common sight in past months,
especially to customers strolling downtown and merchants trying to
attract them.
Gilroy – What do the Energizer Bunny and construction in Gilroy have in common? They both keep going and going and going …
Striped barricades and orange cones lining Monterey Street and other city roads have become a common sight in past months, especially to customers strolling downtown and merchants trying to attract them.
City planners and engineers hope the work’s final result will be a better-looking, more functional Gilroy, but in the meantime, cover your ears.
Work has begun on Fifth and Monterey streets to upgrade underground and overhead utility lines, a project that will take approximately six weeks, said city development engineer Kristi Abrams.
Next week, crews will begin construction of concrete ramps on Fourth and Monterey streets. Work will begin the week of Sept. 13 to modify traffic signals at the same intersection, with existing stoplights down and the crossing treated as an all-way stop. Traffic from Lewis, Monterey and Fourth streets flows into the intersection.
Crews from PG&E began work in early August to upgrade existing gas transmission systems in Gilroy. Crews will install two miles of new 8-inch steel gas mains on First Street toward Santa Teresa Boulevard, and the project will require additional, smaller excavations on a number of city intersections and streets.
The new pipeline, scheduled for completion in November, will provide additional gas capacity to the city.
The Monterey Streetscape Improvements Project is substantially complete, Abrams said.
The project’s recently completed second phase addressed Monterey between Sixth and Seventh streets including installing underground sewer lines, landscaping medians and installing lights in city parking lots.
Outside downtown perimeters, work continues to widen Santa Teresa from two lanes to four between First Street and Longmeadow Drive. New soundwalls are being constructed along Santa Teresa, and traffic signals throughout the area have been modified.
The site for the new police station, on the southeast corner of Hanna and Seventh streets, has been prepped for construction.
The drilling’s not done:
Downtown construction completed:
• Installation of median lights in city parking lots and Gourmet Alley
• Construction of landscaped medians
• Installation of bus stop at Monterey and Fifth
• Modifications of pedestrian curb ramps on Monterey
Soon to be completed:
• Construction of ramps on Fourth and Monterey
• Traffic signals at Fourth and Monterey
Ongoing construction for the next six weeks:
• Work along Fifth and Monterey
PG&E gas line expansion through November:
• Lewis Street east of Monterey Street
• Intersection of Old Gilroy and Chestnut streets
• Forest Street between Sixth and IOOF streets
• Eigleberry Street between Fourth and First streets
• First Street (Highway 152) between Eigleberry Street and Santa Teresa Boulevard
