Workers fish out chunks of pavement from the recently broken up intersection at Eighth and Main streets in North Bend following one of the rains last week. Work is several weeks behind.

Main Street work fights rain, mud

by Nathan Arneal
Published 7/19/23

Work on tearing out and reconstructing North Bend’s Main Street slogs on.

Recent storms and rains have slowed work and kept the dug-up portion of Main Street, which now runs from 14th Street to Eighth Street, full of water and mud.

According to the project update provided Friday by the contractor, Steve Harris Construction, work on Main Street within the North Bend city limits is now 31% complete and 45 days behind schedule.

According to the schedule laid out by the Nebraska Department of Transportation at a public meeting in March, work on the Segment 4 of the project – which is the two blocks of downtown – was scheduled for late July. Friday’s update says the downtown work will start when Segment 3 – 11th Street to Eighth Street – is complete. That appears to be more than a month away.

The Main Street work is being done in four segments. At the March meeting NDOT officials said each segment would be completed and open to traffic before work on the next segment begins. When weather and other factors put work behind schedule, that plan was changed.

NDOT asked if it could tear up 11th to Eighth streets the week leading up to Old Settlers, but held off until July 5 after the City of North Bend and the Chamber of Commerce asked them not to split town in half right before Old Settlers.

Here are progress updates on the project:

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