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Song of the Open Road (Partly) As Le Jeune Work Moves Along; February Finish Date Confirmed

The open road beckons-two wide lanes each way - on Le Jeune Road now from Tamiami Trail to Bird Road after the last stretch of binder covering was laid this week. The finish paving on this same stretch will be laid after New Year's, completing this part of the project, according to Frank C. Palmer, superintendent for Troup Brothers Construction Co. And the remaining portion of Le Jeune, between Bird Road and South Dixie Highway will be completed by the end of February - in time to meet the extended 48-day deadline granted by the State Road Department after numerous changes in plans, Palmer said. Sidewalks, lack of which had caused some downtown merchants to howl some weeks back, are all completed except in the Bird-South Dixie portion, he said. "I could have built a road in half the time had traffic been stopped," Palmer said in citing the slow process of road construction while cars worked their way between men and equipment. But the delay was granted after it was found that the plan to use heavy concrete ditch covers over a deep drainage ditch was not feasible beyond a certain point. Concrete pipe had to be ordered and substituted. Other delays resulted from changes in the island at University Drive and Le Jeune and the location of a drainage outfall behind Coral Gables High School.