During today’s regularly scheduled City Council meeting, Mayor Paulette Guajardo and the City Council approved $75,904 for additional lighting at Swantner Park to improve visibility and safety at the popular bayfront location.
City construction crews are preparing for waterline improvements at the South Padre Island Drive and Everhart Road intersection, part of voter-approved roadwork included in Bond 2018 and 2020.
Roadwork continues on Flato Road, requiring lane closures between Bates Road and Bear Lane.
Roadwork on Nueces Bay Boulevard between Up River Road and Leopard Street continues, with lane closures expected through July.
South Brownlee Boulevard will see varying lane closures as the project enters its next construction phase.
Motorists are advised that underground utility work near the intersection of Ennis Joslin Road and Nile Drive will require varying lane closures. Beginning Monday, June 2, crews will close a small section of the northbound lanes near the City’s Oso Water Treatment Plant, allowing two-way travel on the remaining lanes.
Continuing work on the Peoples Street Boardwalk will require a lane closure near the Peoples Street T-head, the landmass that goes into Corpus Christi Bay near the Marina from Shoreline Drive.
Baldwin Boulevard between Ayers Street and South Staples Street is scheduled for a repaving. The work will require lane closures but will allow two-way traffic.
Everhart Road between Staples Street and Alameda Street will reopen to traffic on Friday, May 23. Additional work in the area continues with a traffic shift on Everhart Road at McArdle Road. The northbound lanes at the intersection will be closed beginning Friday, May 23. Two-way traffic will be rerouted to the southbound lanes of Everhart Road between McArdle Road and Burney Drive.
Beginning Wednesday, May 21, construction work will close West Broadway Street between North Port Avenue and Peabody Avenue. The closure is expected to be completed by mid-July.
