LOWELL -- The concrete barriers now blocking one lane of Middlesex Street downtown are expected to be removed by tomorrow, as the city prepares to convert the section of the street that branches east from the Lord Overpass to two-way traffic next week.
Adam Baacke, a deputy director of the city Division of Planning and Development, said the contractor responsible for the work, Milford-based Consigli Construction, at city officials' insistence has pledged to have the barriers removed at the end of this week.
Both travel and parking lanes on the section of Middlesex Street that runs from Central Street to the Lord Overpass, through downtown Lowell, will be available to drivers when that route is opened to two-way traffic next Wednesday at 6 a.m.
The construction work and the traffic pattern change are associated with the $25 million, 900-space public parking garage the city is building on that section of Middlesex Street.
-- MICHAEL LAFLEUR
This story appeared in the Lowell Sun on Thursday, October 11, 2007