The Ocean City Boardwalk is barricaded at Fifth Street and Seventh Street as a construction project to demolish and replace a block of it begins.
The fences went up on Monday and will remain in place until the project is complete — likely in March or April.
The work is part of the second phase of a multi-year project to rebuild the Ocean City Boardwalk and its substructure between Fifth and 12th streets. This phase includes work from Sixth Street to Plaza Place (just north of Seventh Street).
The project will include reconfiguring the boardwalk ramp at Sixth Street, eliminating the north ramp and widening the south ramp. The access ramp for the disabled will remain in place, leading to the municipal parking lot between Fifth and Sixth streets.
A detour now takes pedestrians and cyclists off the Boardwalk at Seventh Street, down Wayne Avenue, through the municipal parking lot between Sixth and Fifth streets, and back to the boardwalk at Fifth Street.
For runners, walkers and cyclists who travel the boardwalk religiously, here’s the tale of the tape:
- The detour adds about 0.17 miles to a run the length of the boardwalk (from 2.45 miles to 2.62 miles). The round trip is now 5.24 miles (up from 4.9 miles).
- From the 23rd Street terminus down the boardwalk to the Seventh Street detour is about 1.75 miles.
- From the St. James Place terminus down the boardwalk to the Fifth Street detour is just under .5 miles.
City Council this summer awarded a $1.2 million contract to Fred M. Schiavone Construction of Malaga to complete the work. Schiavone was the contractor for the first phase of the project between Fifth and Sixth streets and for the new Welcome Center on the Route 52 causeway.
Council has authorized spending up to $1,825,000 on this phase of the project.
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