Consumers Repairing Power Lines at Plymouth's Central Parking Deck

PLYMOUTH, MI — Consumers Power is scheduled to begin repairing natural gas lines near the entrance to the city of Plymouth’s Central Parking Deck on Tuesday. The lines were damaged and and forced the evacuation of some parts of downtown last fall. Crews and equipment will be staged on the driveway that serves as the entrance and exit to the Central Parking Deck.

At times, there will only be one lane available for traffic to enter the deck and the alley from Harvey St, as well as exit the deck and alley onto Harvey Street, according to Plymouth DDA Director Tony Bruscato. He said at the entrance of the deck, the southbound lane of Harvey Street will be blocked with southbound traffic using the turn lane and northbound traffic in its usual lane.

With traffic to and from the Central Parking Deck, post office traffic and traffic turning left from northbound Harvey to westbound Penniman Avenue, traffic will be congested, at times, Bruscato said. Consumers Power is expected to have several flag people directing traffic on Harvey Street as well as traffic that uses the Central Parking Deck alley/driveway.

Depending on weather and other circumstances, this could be a project that could continue for most of the week, Bruscato said. All parking spaces in the Central Parking Deck will be available during the Consumers Power project.

These repairs are unrelated to the more than $450,000 worth of repairs for the planned for the deck is. Leaking joints, deck coating and stair repairs are among the fixes needed at the deck, which sits off of Harvey Street between Ann Arbor Trail and Penniman Avenue. Major repairs haven’t been made at the deck since 2009, according to Plymouth Downtown Development Authority documents.

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