Blair Tribune 11 Nov 1926
B-Line to be Opened for travel Next Week
While the strip of the B-Line between Blair and Kennard is not
entirely completed, contractors expect to finish the work of
grading the latter part of next week, when the road will be thrown
open to travel for the entire distance that has been improved
during the past summer.
Portions of the road have been used at all times by those
acquainted with the lay of the county, but for the average
traveler detour signs routed them over the Omaha high road as far
as the Harrison corner1
and then west into Kennard.
The new road is now practically completed and there only
remains the filling in of approaches to the new bridges and the
smoothing up of the road in a few places. None of the old bridges
were used in this stretch of improvement; with the exception of
the steel bridge a mile this side of Kennard, which will later be
used by the county at some other point, every cement arch and
bridge was blown out. At each of these places the road was changed
a trifle, necessitating new and better bridges affording wider
road beds. These bridges all have cement decks and they will be
ready for use as soon as the road is opened.
Other road improvements now being made in the county on state
highways include the graveling of the turns on the Washington
highway between Blair and Herman. The last piece of grading which
included work on the Cameron hill1
to improve the turn in the road just this side of Herman has been
completed and the curves on that road will be covered with gravel
before the week is over.
Following this, the highway running south of Blair to the
pavement at the edge of Douglas county will be given a coat of new
gravel. About fifty carloads of gravel will be used on this
stretch of road. It is not the intention to coat the entire road,
however; the improvement is more in the nature of maintenance and
gravel will be used only where is [sic] is needed.
The new bridge at Davis Avenue has been thrown open to travel
and the balance of the ground acquired by the city at that point
is being put in shape for park purposes according to a stipulation
at the time of its sale to the city. Residents of Blair who have
not kept in touch with the B-Line improvement will marvel at the
changes that have been made.
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