M-50 to be repaved
Residents and visitors to the area will be inconvenienced this summer, as the Michigan Department of Transportation repaves five miles of M-50. The project is to begin in early April and be finished by November 15.

“It will be a summer of headaches, but then hopefully we’ll be out of your hair for quite a while after that,” said Jim Brosamar of MDOT, senior technician for the project.

The plan was outlined at a special meeting on Thursday, March 25 in the Village Council Chambers on Toledo Street.

The repaving project will begin in downtown Dundee at Barnum Street, and extend east to Lewis Avenue.

Inside the village limits, the project will include milling down the current pavement, and resurfacing the road, with re-curbing, drainage work and installing storm sewers.

“They still have some of their storm basins tied into our sanitary sewer system,” said Trustee Ed Craft. Cost of separating the sewers will be covered by the state.

A left turn lane will be added to M-50, near the Kroger store. Village officials have asked the state to add this turn lane for many years, to cut down on traffic accidents and make the area safer.

Outside the village limits, the road will be “rubblized,” which means the existing pavement subgrade will be reused.

At the railroad bridge on M-50 near Meanwell Road, the road will be closed for a while— approximately a month, while more extensive work is done there. The road will be dug out to a depth of about six feet under the bridge, said Mr. Brosamar. This is to increase the clearance of the bridge for trucks and other tall vehicles. The road will be paved with concrete in this section only. This work is expected to be done early in the construction schedule.
While M-50 is closed at Meanwell Road, detours will be set up.

During the rest of the repaving project, traffic on M-50 will be maintained with one lane using traffic signals.

The repaving work is to be done by Michigan Paving & Materials Co., formerly Thompson-McCully.