Oak Creek Plans More Infrastructure Improvements

In addition to 18 local road projects set to take place in 2013, the city has scheduled several other infrastructure improvements over the next few years.

Bridges on Nicholson Road, Weatherly Drive, Marquette Avenue and 6th Street will be replaced. Sidewalks will be extended throughout Howell Avenue, filling in gaps between College Avenue and Oakwood Road. And Puetz Road between Howell Avenue and Liberty Road will be rehabilitated.

The Common Council has approved issuing $3 million in bonds, payable over a 10-year favor, to finance the work. The city is also applying for grants to offset the cost.

The bridges are on 6th Street just north of Drexel Avenue; Marquette Avenue just west of Howell Avenue; Nicholson Road south of Puetz Road; and Weatherly Drive east of 13th Street.

City officials do not yet have a timetable for when bridge replacement work will begin. The Howell Avenue sidewalk project is expected be completed by the end of 2014, while the Puetz Road work will begin this summer.

The biggest construction project in Oak Creek this year is the Rawson Interchange reconstruction, which will continue until late fall.

However, Milwaukee County will wait until 2016 to reconstruct the consensus worst road in the city, 13th Street. The street is not under the city's jurisdiction.