John Badman|The Telegraph A road milling machine strips the top layer of asphalt off Piasa Street on Wednesday at 3rd Street as workers doing the sewer separation work under U.S. 67 began preparing some of the road for resurfacing. The work has kept U.S. 67, known locally as Piasa Street, closed for the last two weeks from East Broadway to 20th Street. Begun July 5, the stretch of work is expected to conclude in early August.
ALTON — Work continued Wednesday on U.S. 67/Piasa Street in Alton.
On Wednesday, a road milling machine stripped the top layer of asphalt off Piasa Street at 3rd Street as workers doing the Illinois American Water sewer separation work under U.S. 67 began preparing some of the road for resurfacing.
The project has kept the major Alton thoroughfare closed for the last two weeks from East Broadway to 20th Street. The stretch of work began July 5 with initial projections that the section of heavily traveled highway would be closed through July and into the early part of August.
John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for 39 years and has been named the National Press Photographers Association’s Region-5 Photographer of the Year six times.