Austin residents could soon see detour signs taken down and a main street open back up.

As long as the weather holds off, construction on 14th Street SW between Oakland and Eighth avenues should be finished soon, according to Assistant City Engineer Steven Lang. Crews paved the road Tuesday.

“Our plan is to get it striped [Thursday] and opened by Friday,” Lang said.

Bridge projects

Mower County’s Public Works Department is continuing work on a number of area bridges. The Roosevelt Bridge on Fourth Street SE is coming along well, said Director Mike Hanson.

“They have to finish up with the ring stones,” he said. “Then they’ll be doing tuck pointing on the head wall stones and ring stones.”

Ring stones are wedge-shaped pieces of an arch bridge that are visible on the face of the arch. Tuck pointing is the process of putting putty or mortar between stones for appearance and weatherproofing.

At another bridge over on Fourth Street SW, work may take longer to complete than the crew’s initial target date of Sept. 15.

“There’s a little more work to do yet,” Hanson said, explaining that crews still have to pave the road.

Both bridge projects should wrap up around the end of the month, Hanson said.