Starting next week, Davenport will close seven blocks of Harrison Street for major road and sewer work. This morning, Public Works Director Mike Clarke explained the project and detour, which includes two-way traffic on Brady Street for at least three months.
Clarke says Harrison from 5th to 12th streets will be completely resurfaced. The detour will direct drivers from Harrison to 14th Street to Brady, then back to Harrison via 4th. Main Street is too narrow and busy to be a viable alternative, especially because of Central High School and Palmer College.
Clarke and other city employees decided to start the project and set up the detour before classes begin to get the word out early. And so students, teachers, and others can get used to the changes.
Parking on the west side of Brady Street will be banned to allow two lanes of traffic in both directions. Two timed, traffic signals will be installed for pedestrians on the Palmer campus to cross Brady.
Clarke says this is Phase One of the Harrison Street project. The second phase is resurfacing from 5th Street to River Drive. Then next year, Brady Street will be resurfaced. He says no decisions have been made yet about the official detour for that project.
