The Haysville Times
By Angie Gumm
Haysville residents and businesses looking for relief from the construction detour they have been facing for the last 10 months might have to keep waiting until February.
“As the contractor, we’re just hanging out in limbo,” said Matt Inlow, of Dondlinger and Sons Construction. “We’re not being able to do the stuff that is critical to get the job done.”
That “stuff” includes finding a solid base for the piles they have been trying to drive. The piles are currently at 86 feet, which is 28 feet more than they had expected. The designers may have to re-plan the footing on the bridge if they do not find solid ground soon, and Inlow says that has been holding them up.
“It’s just been one thing after the other,” he said. “I know it must seem to everybody that we’re the bad guys, but we’re doing everything we possibly can here. Every time we get going, something from designing that we have no control over comes up.”
“[The project] is going slower than we had hoped for,” said Mayor Bruce Armstrong. The mayor said that the latest finish date that the City has heard is February.
“We should be done before that,” Inlow said of the February date.
Businesses on Grand and Main can look for the road construction to be finished in mid-August. The City’s Shop-at-Home contest will continue until the railroad construction is over, and their Shop-at-Home banners will be put back up soon.