{"id":250586,"date":"2026-04-03T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250586\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T21:29:08","slug":"oakland-county-launches-56-8m-road-construction-season-with-19-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250586\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland County Launches $56.8M Road Construction Season With 19 Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Road Commission for Oakland County started its 2026 building season. Nineteen projects will cost $56.8 million total., as shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/01\/list-the-19-road-projects-planned-for-oakland-countys-2026-construction-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click on Detroit<\/a>. Work includes fresh pavement, a traffic circle, new bridges, and pipe fixes across the county.<\/p>\n<p>Five big paving jobs will fix damaged bases before adding 3 to 4 inches of asphalt on top. Greenfield Road runs from Lincoln to 12 Mile through Southfield, Berkley, and Oak Park\u2014the largest job at $14.2 million. Pontiac Trail stretches from 9 Mile to the CSX railroad tracks in South Lyon and Lyon Township, budgeted at $11.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Two pieces of 12 Mile Road get new surfaces. One runs from Novi to Farmington in Novi and Farmington Hills\u2014$10.8 million. Another goes from Orchard Lake to Autumn Ridge in Farmington Hills for $3.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Novi Road between 8 Mile and 9 Mile in Novi and Northville is a two-year job. It began in 2025 and will cost $6.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once again this year, we&#8217;re doing everything we can to spread our funding across as many roads as possible, with numerous safety, pavement-condition and bridge and culvert improvement projects,&#8221; said Dennis Kolar, managing director of the commission. &#8220;As always, during construction season, there will be some inconvenience for motorists as we improve the roads, but that short-term pain will result in long-term improvements to the road system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crews will construct a roundabout where Wixom, Duck Lake, and Sleeth meet in Milford and Commerce townships. Cost: $2.2 million. Pontiac Lake Road from Margie to Kingston in White Lake Township gets paved for $5.8 million, starting this year but wrapping up in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Three bridges need replacing. The Deerhill Street crossing over Deer Lake Creek in Independence Township costs $1.5 million. Two spans in Waterford Township over the Clinton River will be rebuilt as one $2.9 million project\u2014the Emburke Street bridge becomes a walkway only.<\/p>\n<p>Three bridge repairs happen as one $1.7 million job. Crews fix crossings on 14 Mile Road, Franklin Road, and Inkster Road over the Rouge River in Franklin, Bloomfield Township, and West Bloomfield Township.<\/p>\n<p>Five pipe projects range from $100,000 to $1.9 million each. The priciest tackles Walnut Lake Road over the Rouge River in West Bloomfield Township, which includes repaving from Orchard Lake to Middlebelt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Road Commission for Oakland County started its 2026 building season. Nineteen projects will cost $56.8 million total.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-250586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}