With the certainty of a steady flow of funding after the state legislature passed a road repair bill, and a $4.6 million dollar loan, the Barry County Road Commission crews are busy repairing many of the county’s primary roads this construction season.

“Work is going well,” BCRC Engineer/Manager Brad Lamberg said, “especially considering the weather, but we’re working around the cold start. The contractors and crews are working well and we’re very close to being on schedule.”

A list of roads scheduled for overlay shows several already finished; Norris, Brown, Charlton Park from Center to M-79, and also from M-43 to Coats Grove, Stevens, Sisson, Banfield and West State. Green Lake Road is also done and has been widened to 28 feet.

Still to be finished are Guernsey Lake, from M-43 to Otis Lake, Cressy from Lockshore to Enzian (also being widened to 28 feet), Thornapple Lake, from the bridge to M-66, Yankee Springs, from M-37 to M-179, and Brogan from M-37 to the township line. Some shoulder gravel still needs to be put on a few of the completed roads, and crews will chip seal all the roads on the list this summer.

Three bridges in the county will also be worked on, Lamberg said. Heavy maintenance, repaving decks, repairing concrete and painting steel beams on bridges that have them is scheduled for bridges on Irving, Parmalee and Brown roads.

“The bridges will have to be closed at times. On the road work, it will be controlled by flags. Just slow down and you can get through it just fine,” Lamberg said.