North Crescent Road and West Fountain Drive will be closed for 90 days starting June 13 for the B-Line connection project.
The project will connect the B-Line Trail at Adams Street to the existing multiuse path on 17th Street via a new paved multiuse path that extends from the north side of the Indiana Railroad to the east sides of Fountain Drive and Crescent Road.
The roads are closed to realign the intersection at Fountain and Crescent to a T-shape.
“That intersection will actually get realigned so that the dominant movement from Crescent to the south side of Fountain is more of the through route,” said Neil Kopper, senior project engineer for the city. “The kind of dead-end portion of Fountain up in the northwest will tee in and that will have a stop sign.”
The City of Bloomington started construction on the project in June 2023.
“We are expecting substantial completion on the project in November of 2024,” Kopper said. “Then there will probably be a few small remaining items that get wrapped up in the spring of 2025.”
Kopper expects tree planting to be completed in the spring. Two hundred five trees were removed for the project. The majority were removed from the stormwater detention area by the railroad. Sixty-four deciduous trees will be planted.
The majority of utilities have been relocated. Minor utility relocation may continue.
AZTEC Engineering Group is the design consulting firm working on the project.
