Manhole work will affect downtown traffic

By Robin Roy
| 5:00 a.m. January 31, 2011

Extreme wear and tear on manholes, as well as underground gases eating away at them, require periodic replacement.

Sarasota
News

Construction on Fruitville Road will affect late-night traffic through Wednesday.

The city will replace five manhole covers on Fruitville between U.S. 41 to Beneva Road.

Work begins this evening at 9 p.m. at Fruivtille and Beneva and is scheduled to be complete by 5 a.m. Tuesday morning.

Then Tuesday evening, there will be lane closures at Fruitville and U.S. 41 to replace a manhole near that intersection.

Those lanes will reopen by 5 a.m. Wednesday morning.

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