Road work and closures disrupt Route 800 and interchange, Wayne County OH
Road ClosureRoad construction is ongoing on Route 800 near Munson and the central interchange with Route 8 in Wayne County, Ohio. One side of the bridge over 77 has been closed last year and the other side is closed this year for concrete replacement. This has caused detours and traffic delays for residents, commuters, and school buses in the area. Additionally, local roads are being chip sealed as part of maintenance, and detours require drivers to use alternate highways. The work has led to extended road closures and visible traffic barricades remain in place.
Audio|Source: W8WKY Silvercreek ARA
04:28
Transcript:
00:00
Yeah, right down by Munson, they've got the bridge that goes over 77 for Route 800 closed down on the one side. They did the one side last year. They're doing the other side this year. It's all concrete, so they had to tear all the old concrete out and put new concrete in.
00:24
It's been kind of a mess because a lot of people live south of that area, use 800 to get on to 77 to go to work, you know, either north or south, and plus our school bus garage is directly kind of just north of that, and so our school buses are constantly in and out of that exit, and it's been a little bit of a...
00:51
A little bit of a detour for everybody. It's supposed to be opening up here pretty quick, so that'll be a good thing.
00:58
But they chipped and sealed my road that I live on this summer. They do it about every, it seems like about every five years they tip and seal.
01:07
And they just got the lines back on the road, which makes, it's amazing what... what the lines do when you don't have any lines on a road and then you finally get a yellow line and a white line. It's really makes the road look complete there.
01:30
Well morning, K-shop QV. Where I moved from at that road,
01:38
it didn't have lines,
01:42
but the road's adjacent to it did.
01:47
And then the main road adjacent to it,
01:51
they've...
01:54
made this year, which strikes me, but,
01:58
well, we're out of that area, so I can't enjoy that as much.
02:02
Everyone's lower.
02:04
We're out that way, but not that much.
02:09
But, yeah, it'd be good when they get dead, square the way down your way, and take care of some suggestions going on W8, Jackson.
02:25
Yeah, they've never paved, I've been down here 33 years and they've never, never paved the road. It's always been chip and seal, like I say about every five years. I'm sure that's a whole lot cheaper than pavement.
02:38
I heard you come in there, Mark.
02:40
Come on in. Good morning.
02:45
Well, good morning, K-Sept, QV, yeah, I went to Maslin's meeting last night.
02:50
Well, actually, chip myself is a little better than asphalt.
02:54
Don't crack it. Sort of, uh,
02:56
sort of, uh, sort of, once it goes down, it doesn't really deteriorate too much.
03:03
But, yeah, every few years, then you'll asphalt it.
03:06
But that's also a good bonding for the asphalt.
03:11
But every else is going good.
03:14
It went down there to the Mathlin group and seen a bunch of the guys in that.
03:20
And then I drove back.
03:24
They're still working on that route 8.
03:26
As a matter of fact,
03:29
when I come up Arlington Road and I pulled into McDonald's...
03:33
It said your route is being recalculated.
03:37
I looked at it and had the central interchange route 8 going through it closed.
03:45
The detour was,
03:47
go 76 east to one of the exit ramps, get off,
03:53
get back on, and come back up and go back north.
03:58
So when you got up there, you went east out.
04:02
To one of the exits, get off,
04:05
and come back and go back north. Well, I just stayed on 76, went out the 43.
04:12
But, boy,
04:14
oh boy, are they ever going to get done with that road down there?
04:19
And now they just leave the pylons all there. You know, the barrels,
04:23
the barricades, or whatever. They just leave them on the road now, it seems like.
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