What Should You Expect When Driving through Downtown Winder This Week?

A traffic shift that begins tonight, Monday, July 22, will allow the Georgia Department of Transportation to start placing concrete panels Tuesday along Broad Street in downtown Winder. Those panels will be the new roadway surface. 

Broad Street will be re-striped from the railroad track to Athens Street, and traffic will be shifted toward the historic courthouse to allow the contractor to begin excavating the roadway, placing the new roadbed and rebuilding the road with precast concrete slabs. The excavation and placement of the new roadbed will take place during daytime hours and setting the slabs will take place overnight throughout the week. 

According to the DOT, once traffic is shifted there will be no street parking on the northbound side of the road from the railroad tracks to Athens Street.

Installation of storm drain pipes will also continue day and night from Candler Street to Midland Avenue in front of Community and Southern Bank. Sidewalks will be constructed during the day in front of Skip’s Hawaiian Ice and American Pest Control and will also continue from the railroad tracks to Athens Street.

The work is part of a .72-mile long, almost $5 million project that has a completion date of July 31, 2014. The project will rebuild SR 11/Broad Street from the ground up, creating a stronger driving surface that the DOT says will last decades. Enhancement work includes new sidewalks, curb and gutter, benches, lighting and landscaping.