CORONA DEL MAR TODAY

Begonia Avenue to Close During Day as Street Work Continues

Orange cones, the smell of tar, no-parking signs and heavy equipment have become a fact of life for Corona del Mar residents who live or travel by Carnation, Begonia or Acacia avenues between Bayside Drive and East Coast Highway. And it’s about to get worse.

Beginning Monday, Begonia Avenue will be closed south of East Coast Highway throughout the day as workers remove and replace concrete. At night, they will place steel plates to provide vehicle access, city reports state.

The area will be steel plated at night to provide vehicle access. The project is expected to be finished by the end of April.

During this construction, the city will ignore parking restrictions related to street sweeping, and city crews have covered the signs on Carnation, Begonia and Acacia avenues. Workers are grinding and repaving streets and fixing deteriorated concrete, curbs and gutters, as well as removing and reconstructing sidewalks. The total cost is $964,055, according to the city’s website.

The project coincides with a county sewer project that has closed all but one lane of Bayside Drive between Carnation Avenue and El Paseo Drive through April 2010.

Read our earlier stories here and here.