April showers may bring May flowers, but April can also bring smoother roads in Duxbury since it’s the start of paving season - if the weather ever acts more like spring.
Department of Public Works Director Peter Buttkus said he is hoping to start and finish his list of road paving in April.
The following streets are scheduled to be paved: all of Bayridge Lane; all of Bryant Ave.; a section of Elm Street from Tobey Garden Street to the Route 3 overpass; all of Pricilla Ave.; all of Russell Road; a section of Washington Street from Surplus Street to Harrison Street.
Mattakeesett Court road and parking lot – the town pier – are also on the paving schedule.
“We will be starting sometime this month,” Buttkus said, adding that a number of factor influence the exact date road paving can begin, such as state reimbursement for roadwork, when the contractor T.L. Edwards can begin, when the asphalt plants open for the season and the weather. Unless the weather is warmer and drier, the paving must wait.
Buttkus said the paving is not in any priority list. The contractor will begin with one street and then do all the roads “in one fell swoop,” he said. Buttkus would just like to make sure the paving is done at the town pier well before boating season begins.
T.L. Edwards won the paving bid for the towns in the South Shore Consortium, of which Duxbury is a part.
Buttkus said the town will send out automated calls to residents in areas affected by road paving before the work commences.