Detour due near high school to help safety

Road improvements around town will cost $3 million.

MIAMISBURG — The city is seeking bids on a nearly $2 million project that will cause traffic detours on a main Miamisburg road and has awarded another $1 million deal to improve other streets.

Advertisements for bids to reconstruct a section of South Gebhart Church Road and improve pedestrian safety near Miamisburg High School are expected to go out this month.

The road between Belvo Road and Jessi Lane “will be closed to through traffic during the majority of construction,” which is expected to start later this year and is estimated to cost $1.9 million, City Engineer Bob Stanley said in an email.

Detours will be posted and access to local properties along the road will be maintained, he added.

Meanwhile, John R. Jurgensen’s bid of $1,081,763 has been selected for asphalt work this summer on 12 city streets and four Miami Twp. roads as part of a joint project, city records show.

The South Gebhart Church project will shift the road slightly west and involve installing sidewalks, curbs and gutter of both sides of road, Stanley said.

The road “will shift over almost a whole lane width” to make room for a sidewalk on the east — or residential side — of the road, he said.

“We’ll have sidewalk on both sides,” Stanley added. “But the school side will be a wider sidewalk” of about 8 feet with a grass strip buffering the road.

The work will also include widening, storm drainage improvements and asphalt resurfacing.

The Gebhart Church project will receive about $956,780 in Issue 2 funding from Ohio Public Works Commission with the city funding the remainder of the costs, records show.

“The Issue 2 funds were instrumental in enabling the city to move forward with this much-needed roadway, sidewalk and utility improvement project,” Stanley said.

Jurgensen was picked for asphalt resurfacing after submitting a lower bid than Barrett Paving Materials, which provided a $1,215,700 estimate, according to Miamisburg records.

Both came in below the engineering projection of $1,230,000, Stanley said.

A large section of Benner Road in both the city and the township will be part of the work. Benner will be repaved from Byers through the Medlar and Miamisburg Springboro road intersections before stopping at the end of Terrington subdivision, Stanley has said.

City streets totaling about 3.9 miles are included in the program, which Miamisburg estimates at $860,000. Four township roads will account for 2.9 miles of resurfacing targeted to cost $520,000, records show.

Aside from Benner, city streets included are: South Heincke Road from Maue Road to Ohio 725; Linden Avenue from Riverview Avenue to Main Street; and Rosina Drive from Belvo Road to Carriage Lane, city records show.

The other three township roads include Miami Village Drive, Shephard Road and Washington Church Road, documents state.

Field work on the asphalt project is set to start later this summer with completion by the end of September, Stanley said.