River Road construction soon to come

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Jeremy Kashman, director of engineering, speaks at a meeting last month. (Photo by James Feichtner)
Jeremy Kashman, director of engineering, speaks at a meeting last month. (Photo by James Feichtner)

By James Feichtner

Prairie View neighborhood residents and other nearby residents gathered at the Harrison Room of Prairie View Golf Club Feb. 17 to hear updates on the upcoming, nearby River Road construction. The road will see major changes as early as spring to improve traffic flow.

The changes are scheduled to take place in two phases. Phase A will include construction from Tall Timber Run up through Haverton Way. Phase B will affect the remainder of River Road from phase A up to 146th Street and will likely be implemented when the nearby school is not in session.

“What we’re targeting now is phase B will definitely take place during the summer when school is closed,” Jeremy Kashman, director of engineering for the City of Carmel. “Right now we’re working on the utility schedule. There’s a couple of utilities that need to be relocated. If they were able to get to a point where we feel comfortable with it then we could actually begin that this spring beginning in the next two to four weeks. I don’t know enough about [utility companies’]schedules yet, but if we do not feel we can get phase A completed by the time school is out we will just hold off and do that after school is back in session after the fall.”

The construction will widen River Road as well as increase the size of its medians. Also added will be a multi-use path.

There are plans to, “Match the existing section that’s south of there so it will have a 16 foot median,” Kashman said. “It will have two 16 foot lanes on either side with a 10 foot multi-use path on the outside of the roadway. For this summer’s construction we will build a multi-use path from Tall Timber all the way up to Community Drive on the west side of the roadway. For the time being we will hold off on the west side of the roadway just because we don’t want to bring it up and stop right in front of Community Drive. We will pick up with that phase once we do the river road improvements all the way up to 146th street.”

Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard was in attendance at the meeting. Mayor Brainard spoke to the audience on various updates within Carmel, including the low tax rates Carmel residents are continuing to enjoy, fire station and police accreditations and other upcoming construction projects throughout the city.

Also in attendance was Paul Rioux of Platinum Properties. Rioux spoke about the ongoing construction that will take place near the corner of River Road and 146th Street. A Ricker’s gas station will be put in as well as a Payless Liquors which will include other uses its building. There will also be two additional retail centers built.


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