GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – As temperatures start to drop motorists are hoping that means less orange cones and barrels on roadways.
The typical belief is that road construction starts to wain as the calendar flips over to November and Mark Kantola, with the Wisconsin DOT, says that process is already taking place.
“My weekly advisory has gone from 37 projects to, I think, under 10,” says Kantola.
He says one of the biggest projects wrapped up last Friday, well in advance of the winter months and possible weather hazards.
“The I-41/Highway 55 intersection opened again,” he explains. “It’s been closed since July.”
For Brown County, the US 41/County B interchange, which has been under construction since May, is expected to be finished by the first week of November.
Others projects, such as roadwork in Suamico, will depend more on weather conditions.
“The US 41 resurfacing is going to wrap up probably about mid-November if the weather holds good,” he says.
Unfortunately, not all projects can be so fortunate.
He says the WIS 441 tri-county expansion project is a noteworthy undertaking that will continue once the snow starts to fall.
“When you travel down there you will see a lot of work going on between Oneida and all the way down to Midway,” says Kantola. “And that work will continue throughout the winter.”
Statewide traffic and road conditions can be found here.
