Traffic on Main Street in Steinbach is being disrupted as construction crews repair concrete in the intersections at Friesen and Kroeker Avenues. Phil Kalyta, the city's head engineer, outlines the time frame for the project.

"It should take about a month. They're going to do it in two phases. They're going to first work on the centre median lanes for the first two weeks and then they're going to switch over to the curb and parking lanes areas and the bands going across the side streets on Friesen and Kroeker. It's a two-week process, each phase, so they should be done in a month which should give them plenty of time to have everything cleaned up before the Pioneer Days parade. Probably the biggest inconvenience is going to be for pedestrians. Those intersections won't be passable for them during that time."

Meanwhile, Kalyta says crews are close to wrapping up a water main replacement project on Oak Crescent. Water main replacement projects continue on Wilson Street and Sunrise Bay. When the Wilson Street project is finished, Kalyta says that crew will move to Fourth Street between Reimer and Lumber Avenues to do the same work there. And, once the Sunrise Bay project is completed, that crew will move on to Chrysler Gate to do a sewer replacement project. He notes a clean-up crew will follow these projects, starting on Oak Crescent.

"They are going to commence with trench compaction and then they're going to do the concrete work where they put the curbs and driveways back and then they're going to do the asphalt for that half of the street. That clean-up crew will then move on to Wilson and then to Sunrise Bay. They've got a very strategic and planned method of restoring these areas."