Kamloops city staff are working on the final details ahead of some paving work set to take place on Columbia Street from Notre Dame Drive to McGill Road.

Capital Projects Manager Darren Crundwell says the work is still expected to get underway in a couple of weeks.

“We’ll definitely be hitting the communication significantly, working with businesses and everything because we recognize obviously that work in that corridor, any work, even though this is just primarily surface work is still pretty disruptive so, we’ll be getting a lot of communication out on that one,” he told NL News.

Right now, Crundwell says they’re finalizing details about the traffic management plan given the impacts to commuters in the area as well as people hoping to get to businesses in both the Columbia Place and the Summit shopping centres.

“There is also some minor utility work happening. Things like doing the small connection on the water main, and doing some sanitary work. There is also some minor traffic reconfiguration with left turn lanes into the Summit Shopping Centre,” he added. “The majority of the work though is all paving all of Columbia from McGill to Notre Dame and then we’re also doing a few other sections around there.”

Crundwell notes the entire project is expected to take a couple of months to complete.

“As soon as we know and we finalize the traffic management plan, like I said, we’ll be communicating. We are looking at night work to lessen the impact, and we’re going back and forth on those details as well,” he noted. “So we are just working through those things. Its why its taking a little bit longer, but work should still start around the end of May, beginning of June.”

City crews will also be repaving Victoria Street between 8th Avenue and 13th Avenue, including sections of Lansdowne Street and Battle Street, with that project expected to start in late summer.