UPDATE: February 17, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
**Temporary Change in Access Plan**

There has been a temporary change in the local access plan for the Drexel Avenue reconstruction project. The sewer work requires that the short segment of Drexel Avenue from 20th Street to 1848 W. Drexel Avenue will be closed until February 23. This will require that access for properties on 20th Street come from the west (27th Street side) until February 23.

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Project Description

The City of Oak Creek will be reconstructing and expanding W. Drexel Avenue from S. 27th Street to the I-94 overpass in 2012. The project will begin February 13 and continue through late November.

The project is a complete reconstruction of the two-lane asphalt roadway to a concrete four-lane divided boulevard. The project features a separated 10’-wide multi-use pathway along its north side, on-street bicycle accommodations, storm sewer, box culverts, street lighting, and traffic signal modifications along with additional turn lanes at 27th Street. Also included in the project are relocation of existing sanitary sewer and water main, traffic signs, pavement markings, clearing, grading and marsh excavation, rammed aggregate piers and construction of a detention pond.

The project limits will be closed to through traffic, but properties along W. Drexel Avenue and S. 20th Street will have access maintained throughout the duration of the project. The project will be constructed adjacent to and concurrently with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s (DOT) construction of the proposed Drexel interchange, although the DOT project won’t start until closer to May 1.

Traffic Access

Phase One - The first phase of the project will consist of relocation of the sanitary sewer and water main and the subsoil stabilization work through the marshlands. This work will begin in mid-February and continue into May. During this phase of the work Drexel Avenue will be closed to all traffic from 2301 W. Drexel to just west of 20th Street. Thus traffic access for the properties on 20th Street as well as those east of 20th Street will only be from the east side of that construction zone – there will be no access from the 27th Street side. [ VIEW MAP ]

Phase Two - Once the DOT begins its work on the interchange in May all properties on 20th Street and along Drexel Avenue west of I-94 will have their access cut off from the east and thus limited to just the 27th Street side through the remainder of the project. [ VIEW MAP ]