The project came in about $100,000 over budget because there was additional concrete work and more guardrails added, Harris said. Fairborn and Greene County paid for the additional costs.
The bridge was in severe disrepair because the county and city were not sure who the bridge belonged to. It went uninspected for nearly 30 years.
The lack of maintenance on the bridge surfaced in 2018 as the city of Fairborn started plans with ODOT to build sidewalks on that stretch of Dayton-Yellow Springs Road to create a safer environment for pedestrians, many of whom are Fairborn High School students. The city and county rehabbed the bridge and the road section between Commerce Center and Gateway Boulevard.
“We will definitely not let it get into that type of disrepair again,” Harris said.
The bridge is one of the busiest in Fairborn, Harris said. The most recent data, from 2017, shows about 26,000 vehicles travel the road in a day.
Fairborn and Greene County will start resurfacing the entire length of Trebein Road in the spring of 2021, Harris said. The more than eight-mile stretch of road will take about two months to resurface.
The original estimate for the Trebein Road project is $2.7 million, Harris said. It will be bid out in early 2021.
Also in the new year, Fairborn will start improvements to Colonel Glenn Highway. The project will cost about $2.9 million and take about a year to complete.
Harris said there is mostly grass along the road now, so it will be much more safe and much more walkable after the project. It will also be safer for people riding the bus. The city is also adding a bike path along the road.
“We hope this will make the corridor easier to be out and about on and encourage people to go to businesses along the street,” Harris said. “It will also make the street safer to cross.”
The city will also finish the second phase of a project on Maple Avenue. The city will replace a water main and resurface the street. They will add a 10-foot-wide bike path. This phase of the project will cost about $4.8 million.
Harris said the entirety of the Maple Avenue project will cost about $8 million when it is done. All of Maple Avenue from Dayton Drive to “Five Points,” or the intersection of Maple, East Dayton-Yellow Springs Road and East Funderburg Road, will have been resurfaced.
The project will also narrow the street to one lane of traffic each way and add a turn lane in the middle, which will curb speeding along the road.
Once the Maple Avenue project is complete, there will be a bike path connecting all the houses in the subdivisions along Maple to the path on Kauffman.
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