Middlebury Celebrates The Highlights Rail and roads reopen Sidewalk and landscaping work continues downtown North end utility work to wrap up next week Last Friday’s sparkling sunshine and blue skies seemed to suggest better days ahead as hundreds of Middlebury citizens joined officials from the Town, VTrans, Kubricky, Vermont Rail, ECI, and VHB to celebrate the reopening of Main Street and Merchants Row to motorists and the downtown rail corridor to freight traffic, official

10-Week Shutdown Comes To An End The Highlights Ribbon-cutting ceremony marks reopening of Main Street and Merchants Row What to expect this weekend Construction forecast looking ahead Thursday’s overcast skies and intermittent showers will give way to brisk sunshine Friday morning, just in time to mark our emergence from 10 weeks of construction that have transformed downtown Middlebury. Before we jump into the weekly update, VTrans and Kubricky have asked me to let you know

Main Street and Merchants Row To Reopen Friday at 11 AM The Highlights Ribbon-cutting ceremony to take place at intersection of Main and Merchants First Vermont Rail train through at 10 AM Wrapping up 10 weeks of construction On Friday morning, Middlebury will mark the end of this summer’s 10-week shutdown with a ceremonial first train through the new downtown rail tunnel and a ribbon-cutting ceremony to reopen the newly restored Main Street and Merchants Row to pedestrians a

Main Street and Merchants Row Set To Reopen Friday, September 18 The Highlights Main Street and Merchants Row now paved Downtown sidewalks being rebuilt Finishing touches in the rail corridor If everything goes according to plan—and so far that plan has unfolded as expected throughout the 10-week closure of our downtown roadways—Main Street and Merchants Row will reopen to thru traffic next Friday for the first time since Monday, July 13. That same day the first Vermont Rail

Roads Paved, Sidewalks Poured Next Week The Highlights Paving of Main Street and Merchants Row starts next Tuesday Pouring of new downtown sidewalks gets underway next week New rail tracks now fully in place No work Labor Day Weekend and night shift comes to an end With just two weeks to go until we reopen Main Street and Merchants Row to thru traffic, the focus this week has been on preparing to pave Main Street and Merchants Row and to install the new downtown sidewalks. Th