Showing posts with label east st. Show all posts
Showing posts with label east st. Show all posts

Monday, June 17, 2013

Road construction complete

The East, West, Nason, and Church streets received their final coating of asphalt recently completing the rebuild process.

Back in September/October, the water and sewer mains were worked on.
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2012/10/east-st-construction.html

The curbs and sidewalks were put in during March/April
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2013/04/franklin-street-construction-photo-essay.html

and now the final coat has smoothed out the ride.

East St
East St near Fire Station #1

Monday, April 22, 2013

Franklin street construction (photo essay)

My walk around Franklin on the weekend ended up with some photos of the progress putting in the curbs and sidewalks along East, West, Nason and other streets in that area of the town.

Franklin_Curb_EastSt
curbing on East St

Asphalt curbing along the train tracks on East St

Franklin_Sidewalk_EastSt
concrete sidewalk on East St

New curbing and sidewalk on the other side of East St

Franklin_Sidewalk_weststreet
curbing and sidewalks on West St

New curbing and sidewalks on West St

Franklin_sidewalk_WestSt_left
sidewalk prep on West St

Across the street and looking back to the train tracks on West St

Franklin_Sidewalk_NasonSt
sidewalk prep on Nason St

curbing and sidewalks on Nason St

On the Town Council agenda for this Wednesday's meeting is an update by DPW Director Brutus Cantoreggi on the work his department has scheduled for this summer.

You can find the full agenda here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2013/04/franklin-ma-town-council-agenda-apr-24.html

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Construction update

Some of the side roads downtown are newly paved now. You may recall that they had their water and sewer mains worked on earlier this year.

What streets are they? East St, West St, Church Ave, Walnut Ave and Nason St.

A view down West St



A view up East St (from Union St)



The Google map for this area:


View Larger Map

This is one of my favorite spots because East does meet West!

Franklin_East_Meets_West


Post and photos from October 2012
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2012/10/east-st-construction.html

From the Franklin DPW page we find this status
http://franklinma.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/FranklinMA_DPW/Construction_Projects/construction_projects_index


Saturday, November 10, 2007

Poor sidewalk planning


Poor sidewalk planning, originally uploaded by shersteve.


The nice sidewalk laid down Friday afternoon was marked off with some traffic dividers. That's ok for the auto traffic. The foot traffic (yes, this is West Central and heavily trafficked) was not blocked off with anything so folks just walked on.

Some as they realized what they were doing got off. Some were more opportunistic and wrote their name. This could easily have been avoided with some more effective blocking. Where is the "Don Not Cross" tape when you need it?

Note that the sidewalk on East Street does not have the same foot or name markings. It is less heavily traveled.