FTransportation Improvements, Madison, Wisconsin
After five years of helping to improve East Washington
Avenue on Madison’s east side, construction engineers
in Ayres’ Madison office have turned their attention to
Madison’s west side for much of the past five construction
seasons.
Beginning with Pleasant View Road in 2010-11 and
continuing through this construction season with Mineral
Point Road and South Junction Road, three Madison
streets on the far west side have undergone significant
changes. Ayres Associates construction engineers, led by
Top: A new interchange connects Mineral Point Road and
South Junction Road on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin.
Middle left: Construction along Mineral Point and South
Junction Roads wraps up this fall. Middle Right: The project
includes replacement of storm sewer, sanitary sewer, and
water main.
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project manager Kim Ballweg, have been overseeing the
upgrades, which included an extension of Pleasant View
Road and a new “jug-handle” interchange at Mineral Point
and South Junction Roads. The jug-handle interchange
reduces left-turning conflict points by providing a ramp to
connect the roads at points west and south of where they
used to meet.
Chris Petykowski, principal engineer with the City of
Madison, said the end of construction and subsequent
planting on Mineral Point and South Junction Roads this
year completes a long 2½-year process.
“It’s just very big,” Petykowski said about the project’s
most demanding aspect. “The scheduling of the whole
thing between two different contracts was challenging. It’s
just a massive amount of work, almost 2 miles of urban
arterial roadway.”