Between waiting for money, getting plans in place, and being delayed by the weather, Bob Hiscock, Clarenville town manager, says the collector road in Shoal Harbour should be finished this year.
Right now, Hiscock said, the collector road is open to traffic from Glenview Estates to Tavener Place. The connection from Tavener to Gregory Place is still not finished.
"It will start up again as soon as weather permits," Hiscock said. "I suspect that connection will be finished before school starts up again (in the fall)."
With regards to required paving and widening, he said, Huntley Drive and Gregory Place, have been completed; and the collector road from Glenview to Tavener has been paved.
This roadwork came about after public outcries for a new collector road were expressed in late 2010.
Residents were concerned about traffic congestion and student safety, when the decision was made to open Riverside Elementary, off Huntley Drive, to a larger enrollment.
In 2011 council decided to pursue the idea. It meant amendments had to be made to the town's capital works funding application.
Hiscock said the money was late arriving, which meant the project was late getting started.
"Construction is what it is," he said. "From what I gather the paving contractors were committed to Hurricane Igor repair work from the year before, so that set us back."
Hiscock said there were a succession of complications that slowed the work, preventing the work from being completed before year-end.
He said it's not uncommon for construction jobs to not get completed by the end of the construction season.
"Ideally it would have been finished but it was just the progression of events that set everything back."
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