A new pole to hold the traffic light at Hwy. 79 and Sixth Street was installed last week.

Final touches being made on Main Street

by Mary Le Arneal
Published 3/6/24

The final touches – and a few touch ups – are underway following the reconstruction of North Bend’s Main Street last year.

The Nebraska Department of Transportation installed a new traffic light at the intersection of Highway 79 and Sixth Street, the former Highway 30. Unlike the former light, which hung on cables, this one is supported by a metal pole.

Though Highway 30 has moved north of town, Highway 79 remains a state highway through town. For now, the light will remain as it has been with red flashing lights stopping north-south traffic and a yellow flashing light facing east-west traffic.

Eventually the light will change so that the Platte River Road traffic traveling east-west on Sixth Street will stop while Highway 79 (north-south) traffic continues through the intersection without stopping.

On Monday workers were removing the base and sidewalk where the poles that supported the old traffic light had been. On Wednesday they will pour cement to fix the sidewalk and fill the holes.

On Monday NDOT workers had also replaced the street signs at 13th and 12th and Main streets that had been removed during construction.

There will also be “DIP” signs placed at Ninth and Main.

The center lines and parking lines that were painted on Main Street in December have mostly faded away and are hard to see. NDOT construction engineer for District 2 Barb Gerbino-Bebins said that the paint used has a six-month guarantee and will be repainted.

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