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December 7, 2012

Workers await DOH approval to install new welcome signs

By TAMMIE TOLER Princeton Times

PRINCETON — Some of Princeton’s new welcome signs could be installed within the next month to six weeks.

“In the next week, we should have prototype signs,” Architect Todd Boggess told the Princeton City Council Finance and Administration Committee Wednesday.

In addition, he said contractors have submitted drawings of the signs and their sites, and the project is awaiting final approval from the Department of Highways, before digging can begin for installation of the sign bases.

“If you can drive around to the locations, you can actually see the stakes in the ground where the signs are going to be,” Boggess said.

The sign project dates back to 2009, when the city received a Transportation Enhancement Program grant to design the new welcome signs.

Since then, City Council has worked with Boggess and the DOH to establish welcome signs at the city’s entrances and directional signs in some of the more historic sites.

The cost of the project is estimated to come in at approximately $126,000, of which more than $105,000 will be funded through the grant.

While some of the stone work associated with the project will depend upon temperatures and other weather conditions, Boggess said he saw no reason why the majority of installation work cannot be completed soon.

— Contact Tammie Toler at ttoler@ptonline.net.

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