One and a half miles of Brace Road are slated to be repaved this fall.
According to the state Department of Transportation, the work will involve milling and repaving the section from Haddonfield-Berlin Road to the Kings Highway intersection. The project will include ADA-compliant curb ramps.
According to the release, the work is part of a $9.2 million, three-county road repair project that will take place from summer to fall.
Roads that will also be worked on as part of the project are the lanes of both directions on Route 42, the northbound lane of Route 73, the westbound lane of Route 90 and the lanes of both directions on Route 168.
According to Timothy Greeley, press officer of NJDOT, the focus on locations in need of improvements is to ensure the DOT maintains transportation infrastructure in a state of good repair for all users of the highways.
“Within that overall asset management system, we have a specific pavement management system that tracks the pavement condition on all of our almost 13,000 lane miles of state highway and identifies areas in need of repair,” Greeley said. “This stretch of Route 154 (Brace Road) was identified as a significant resurfacing need through that system and was subsequently included into this regional resurfacing contract from there.”
According to Greeley, the entirety of Route 154 will be under construction in both directions from the interchange with County Road 561 at milepost 0 to Route 41 at milepost 1.51 in Cherry Hill.
“This includes all travel lanes, turn lanes, vicinity of side streets, ramp and shoulders. All manholes will rest within the roadway to improve final surface course rideability, and ADA-compliant curb ramps will be constructed where necessary,” Greeley said.
“The highways will be re-striped and new image-detection cameras will be installed at selected intersections to replace the existing underground loop detectors.”
No timeline has been confirmed yet, due to potential conflict with some PSE&G utility repairs along the highway. According to Greeley, the repairs need to be completed before repavement begins.
According to the release, the DOT is hopeful for completion in the fall.
Residents should be wary of the construction, which is scheduled for overnight work. The curbs will be constructed during the day, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays.
“The milling and paving work is being done overnight to limit the impacts to motorists and businesses,” Greeley said. “Overnight work may present an increase in noise but performing this type of work overnight is pretty much standard operation for NJDOT.”
The improvements to the pavement is expected to last approximately 10 years.
“Once completed, this repaving job will provide a much smoother driving surface along Route 154, increasing safety for all users of the roadway,” Greeley said.
