No Bids for Route 866 Project Equal Good News for Williamsburg Borough

During the Williamsburg Borough Council meeting on April 1, bids for the state Route 866 project were to be opened. However, no bids were sent in.

This, according to Stiffler-McGraw engineer John Clabaugh, was a good thing because PennDOT took a look at the project and determined that other renovations are needed instead of the “band-aid” project proposed and out for bids.

Those options identified by PennDOT include stormwater ponds, a piping network or a storm sewer project – at a price tag of more than $1 million.

Clabaugh did stress that PennDOT said that even though Route 866 is a state ro...