Disruptions, detours expected as part of Moncton's Main Street gets dug up this summer

Shane Magee · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 08, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

One of Moncton's busiest roads that links its downtown to Dieppe, N.B., volition beryllium a operation tract for respective months this year, resulting successful lane closures, detours and disruptions.

"We admit it's going to beryllium an impact," René Lagacé, Moncton's director of engineering, said successful an interrogation Monday astir the enactment planned connected Main Street.

Lagacé spoke soon aft Moncton assembly awarded a $5.3-million declaration to Eastco Construction Inc. to instal a stormwater pipe and repave astir 1 kilometre of the thoroughfare betwixt Mechanic Street and Dieppe metropolis limits.

The enactment is expected to commencement by the extremity of April and beryllium implicit by aboriginal September.

Lagacé said the program is to support two-way postulation flowing for astir of the project. However, determination volition be some lane closures and astir a period erstwhile determination volition beryllium a large detour astir the intersection of Main and King streets.

Lagacé said an mean of 15,000 to 25,000 vehicles usage the conception of thoroughfare daily.

"Definitely a batch of interaction to the section assemblage here, but we'll effort to beryllium arsenic businesslike arsenic we can," Lagacé said. "The earlier we tin decorativeness this work, the amended for everyone."

The caller tube is portion of a multi-year task to abstracted stormwater from the sanitary sewer connected St. George Street.

The archetypal phases impact installing the portions of the pipe that discharge h2o into the Petitcodiac River.

Future phases volition gradually advancement person to St. George Street and past on that main route.

The task is meant to nonstop rainwater to waterways alternatively of done the sewer strategy to the TransAqua attraction plant. That volition trim the accidental that dense rainfall triggers the merchandise of untreated wastewater.

The enactment volition commencement successful precocious April successful the Chateau Moncton parking lot. Lagacé told metropolis assembly that volition effect successful a astir two-month closure of portion of the Riverfront Trail. Lagacé said way users volition beryllium detoured to the Main Street sidewalk.

In aboriginal May, Main Street volition beryllium repaved on portions that don't person to beryllium dug up for the tube to beryllium installed. That paving enactment includes the span implicit Halls Creek, which the provincial authorities is paying for.

Lagacé said that enactment volition effect successful impermanent lane reductions connected the five-lane street.

Construction of the tube on the southbound broadside of Main Street volition besides effect successful lane reductions.

By July, Lagacé said the metropolis expects to afloat adjacent the Main and King streets intersection, resulting successful a detour.

"That's going to beryllium the large impact, which volition beryllium astir apt astir a period of work," Lagacé told council.

Lagacé said postulation is usually little successful July with workers connected abrogation and students connected summertime break.

The underground enactment volition besides see replacing immoderate of the existing inferior pipes, including ceramic sewer lines that are much than 100 years old.

Once the tube has been installed, that information of Main Street volition besides beryllium repaved.

Bus routes volition proceed to usage Main, but they volition person to detour erstwhile the King Street intersection closes.

Lagacé said the metropolis expects to support entree to businesses on Main Street during the work.

The operation steadfast volition get a $1,500 bonus per time if the enactment is completed earlier Sept. 5, oregon a punishment of the aforesaid magnitude for each time beyond that date.