The higher projected cost prompted to city to approve a supplemental appropriation of $283,000 for a 1.5-mile resurfacing of the road, also called Far Hills Avenue.
ODOT is expected to bid the project this month, Bergstresser said. Anticipated to start in the spring, the repaving will close lanes of traffic from the Oakwood corporation line to East David Road, he added.
What the total cost will be “all depends upon how the bids come in,” Bergstresser said. “They’re purely estimates at this point.”
South of Dayton, the state route runs through Oakwood, Kettering, Centerville and Washington Twp. in Montgomery County.
At David Road, Ohio 48 has a daily average traffic count of nearly 26,000 vehicles, ODOT records show.
The average number of vehicles using it daily ranges from about 14,700 at Stewart Street in Dayton to more than 41,500 at Interstate 675 in Centerville, according to ODOT.
ODOT is funding 80% of the work with Kettering paying the remainder, Bergstresser said.
An “almost identical” project to Far Hills calls for the resurfacing of Woodman from Wilmington Pike to Stocker Drive, south of Dorothy Lane.
Kettering is seeking about $350,000 from the Ohio Public Works Commission for the project estimated to cost about $733,000, Bergstresser said.
If the city gets state funds, the nearly mile-long work is targeted start in start in the spring 2022, as would the replacement of 67-year-old small bridge on Flesher Avenue in Kettering’s northeast section, he said.
The city is asking for the OPWC to fund about half of the $400,000 work to replace the bridge, which cannot accommodate emergency vehicles, Bergstresser said.
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