Roadwork to enter new phase

One of the companies responsible for the state Highway 26 reconstruction, Mashuda Contractors, will be starting its work on the third stage of the highway project on Monday.

Mashuda Contractors is responsible for Highway 26 work at the Highway 60 intersection and east to Hustisford to County Highway J. All Highway 26 work south of Highway J is being conducted by Zignago Contractors.

According to Mashuda Contractors grade foreman, Kip Gutke, the stage consists of bidirectional traffic on the newly constructed southeast ramp and northbound lanes of Highway 26 between the newly constructed Highway 60 bridge and County Highway J. The southbound lanes south of the Highway 60 bridge will be closed and houses along this route will use newly constructed frontage road Kreuziger Way. Southbound traffic will use the existing crossover located between County Highways J and CJ to merge back onto the newly constructed southbound lanes.

Gutke said to his knowledge, the work of Zignago Contractors on Highway 26 is for the most part completed for 2014. He said Zignago will be doing some painting and sign work next week but won't do much more until sometime in 2015.

According to Gutke, once next week's switch occurs, the work of Mashuda on Highway 26 will be shut down until spring of 2015. The start of that work will be reliant on the ground thawing and drying.

Once Mashuda is able to begin work again, Gutke said the company will work on the Highway 26 bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad, which is located just north of the Highway 60 bridge. Once that phase is wrapped up, Mashuda will move to its fourth and final phase which involves removal of all temporary roads and crossovers. Gutke said that phase, and the project as a whole, is likely to be completed in the fall of 2015.

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Roadwork to enter new phase