North Avenue Repaving Project Begins

Written By: Talk of the Sound News

Tonight at 6:00pm the trucks began to gather on lower North Avenue to begin the scheduled nighttime repaving project.

View from intersection of North & Pelham Road

It is an impressive fleet of vehicles, including the huge pavement scraper called a ‘asphalt cold milling machine’ (Roadtec RX-900) that scrapes the deteriorated pavement off the road and a conveyor belt moves the ground up debris up and shoots it into a big dump truck. One worker said that the machine costs $700K new.

The machine has big teeth that grind the pavement. According to the workers, it works great on asphalt, but less well on cement. A few teeth have to be replaced every 100 yards or so. The man has a few boxes of extra teeth and removes the damaged ones and hammers on new teeth.

The road remains open, but this is a lot of action and the team is geared up for the night. It will be great to have a nice new road. This stretch is a two day project, then they will move to the next section.

Trucks arrive after 6:00pm

Here is the massive Roadtec RX-900 at 9:30pm

Here the Roadtec RX-900 needs teeth replacement

Here some teeth are getting replaced

Here is the top of the conveyor belt spraying out the concrete that has been scraped off the road. Approximately 50% of it can be reused, though not on this project.

The company doing the project is ‘Core Contracting’ of Mount Vernon, NY

This is our tax dollars at work.

3 thoughts on “North Avenue Repaving Project Begins”

  1. Thank you Con Ed
    There appears to confusion as to who paid for the work on North Avunue last week.
    Con Ed ripped up the road. They were then required to fix it. They hired a contractor from Mount Vernon.

    The City of New Rochelle did not pay and those were not tax dollars but utility fee dollars at work.

  2. How far did they pave? A block or 3 as usual?
    How far did they pave? A block or 3 as usual?

    Most of us will be long gone before this road is paved from 1 end to the other.

    And why is it that NR paves its roads this way, 3 or 4 blocks at a time rather than from 1 end to the other? The current approach would seem to be a lot more expensive (the costs associated to move the equipment right after its set-up) than if the road were paved entirely (operators just keep using the equipment rather than wasting time moving equipment to another location).

  3. Tax Dollars At Work – Ha!
    Nothing like driving down this DARK road, like I did with a friend the other night, only to watch the police officer yap on his cell phone and NOT direct traffic as we drove by! It was dark as hell going down North Avenue and all he did was glue that cell phone to his ear! He’s lucky I wasn’t a drunk driver! Pathetic knowing my tax dollars goes towards his salary!

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