Work continues on campus road

Next phase begins Wednesday

FAYETTEVILLE — University of Arkansas officials say widening Arkansas 112 through campus is continuing with a new section opening and another closing.

Arkansas 112 is the highway designation for portions of Razorback Road, Maple Street and Garland Avenue.

The next phase of the project is set to begin Wednesday, when Razorback Road between Meadow Street and Maple Street opens and a section of Maple Street is closed.

The Maple Street work will affect pedestrians and drivers, closing the section from the north entrance of Lot 44 up the hill to the Garland Avenue and Maple Street intersection.

The work will require a one-day closing of the Maple Street and Garland Avenue intersection, but the closing hasn’t been scheduled. Those affected in buildings along the two blocks have been notified, according to officials.

Additional updates on the work include:

■ Stadium Drive has been opened to two-lane traffic. ■ Razorback Road, including the new traffic signal at the Maple Street intersection, is scheduled to open Wednesday.

■ The lane closed on Garland Avenue in front of the Pat Walker Health Center is scheduled to open Friday, but the sidewalk will remain closed.

■ The Leroy Pond extension, with a new traffic signal, is scheduled to be completed Aug. 19.

■ The work on Upper Service Drive to resurface the road and add a new sidewalk will be complete in late August. It will be opened temporarily for students moving in.

The multiyear project on Razorback Road is widening it to three or four lanes through campus from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Maple Street and up the hill to Garland Avenue. The corridor will have sidewalks separated from both sides of the street by up to 10 feet of green space with trees.

Razorback Road and Stadium Drive will be three lanes. Maple Street will be four lanes with a new signal at Razorback and Maple, a modified signal at Maple and Stadium Drive and a midblock pedestrian crossing.

The entire project is expected to be completed later this year.

The city, University of Arkansas and the Arkansas Department of Transportation have worked over the past several years to widen and improve the highway through and near campus.

The three agreed to a plan in January 2017 entailing four main stretches in which the state would either do the work or pay for it. The city would maintain ownership and responsibility of the road with the university continuing landscaping duties through campus.

The work is expected to cost $12.5 million of which the city would contribute about $500,000.