Westfield Road Resurfacing Continues. See What Is Next

WESTFIELD, NJ - Westfield's summer of road improvements continues as road resurfacing and ADA upgrades are in process this week.

Over the last nine years, the Town has paved an average of approximately four miles of roadway each year. This year, that figure will rise to more than eight total miles, 31 roads, marking an unprecedented effort in this area. In addition to the municipal paving efforts, the Town also announced an agreement with Elizabethtown Gas in which the utility will pave 9.82 miles of roadway on 59 roads that it has disrupted as part of its ongoing maintenance and repair work in various parts of Town over the course of the past 18 months.

With the installation of the ADA-compliant ramps complete, milling and paving will begin on the following roads:

• Birch Place (entire length)
• Clark Street (Dudley to Edgewood, half-width)
• Coleman Place (entire length)
• Eaglecroft Road (Forest to Coleman; Hanford to Clark)
• Embree Court (entire length)
• Forest Avenue (entire length)
• Glen Avenue (entire length)
• Hanford Place (entire length)
• Longfellow Avenue (Forest to Town line)
• Seneca Place (entire length)
• Short Hills Court (entire length)

2019 Municipal Capital Improvements:

• Boulevard (Grove Street to Clover Street)
• Midvale Way (Summit Avenue to Boulevard)
• Clover Street (Boulevard to Summit Avenue)
• Summit Avenue (Clover Street to Clifton Street)
• Clifton Street (Boulevard to Rahway Avenue) Paving complete. Striping to be scheduled.
• Munsee Way (entire length)
• Minisink Way (entire length)
• Bailey Court (entire length)
• Lenape Trail (entire length): Replacement of inlets/manholes and installation of ADA-compliant ramps complete.

Milling/paving of these streets is expected to occur this week. Also in the works:

• Pierson Street (entire length) Milling complete. Replacement of inlets and manholes and installation of ADA compliant ramps complete. Installation of surface course scheduled to occur this week.
• Charles Street (entire length)
• Clark Street (Ludlow Place to Cowperthwaite Place)
• Installation of ADA-compliant curb ramps complete. Replacement of inlets/manholes and milling/paving scheduled to occur this week.

As always, all work is weather permitting.

"I am a firm believer in putting residents' tax dollars to work for them, and road improvements continues to be a top request that the Council members and I hear on a regular basis," said Mayor Shelley Brindle when the projects were announced. "We're very grateful for our continued strong partnership with Elizabethtown Gas. The road work that they've agreed to undertake is substantial and, notably, will mostly include curb-to-curb, full-width paving – versus the patching and partial road paving they have done in the past following completion of their work."

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