Traffic on Atwood Avenue Slowed by Road Repairs

Cars traveling on Atwood Avenue crawled by this morning, slowed by the final phase of work to repair the area affected by .

James Hathaway, vice president of Piccoli Paving, explained that his company is replacing the asphalt applied to the road last year.

"We're doing the final restoration of the road surface [since] what they did here was temporary," Hathaway said as a backhoe smoothed out the gravel and sand bed, and workers lowered new curbs into place.

The crew started Monday with the southbound lane (heading toward the Rt. 6 interchange), and were working on the northbound lane before putting a binder in place overnight. The final layer of asphalt is scheduled to be applied tomorrow, Hathaway explained.

Last August, a total of three water valves broke, with two smaller vavles breaking after crews repaired the first one.

Several local businesses — including — were left without water service as Providence Water workers dug trenches in Atwood Avenue and replaced the broken parts.