A notorious section of Maynard Street beneath the Interstate 180 bridge, from the Susquehanna River to the railroad tracks on both sides of the road will be getting paved.

As part of the 2025 street repair and paving projects, this was previously announced for City Council by Bill Scott, city engineer.

It’s part of Mayor Derek Slaughter’s commitment to responding to the priority street repairs and will use liquid fuels funds to pay for the contract, Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc. State liquid fuels come from state revenue on gas taxes, so, essentially it is tax that is returned in the form of repairing infrastructure road surfaces.

“We’re getting a lot of complaints,” Scott said of the pot holes and ruts at this section of the city. “It is really rough under there,” he said, especially beneath the overpass bridge carrying the volumes of traffic on I-180 east and west.

This is the access from the interstate to Maynard Commons, the commercial and industrial strip, Pennsylvania College of Technology, the Williamsport Lumber Yards (athletic complex) and is the Pathway to Health, getting ambulances to and from UPMC North Central Pennsylvania campus using a series of streets and intersections.

The street repaving jobs typically start this month and go through October and early November before the asphalt plants stop producing the materials, usually a week or so before the Thanksgiving holiday.

The City Council was informed by Scott about the Maynard Street improvement plan and how it will be funded.

Hawbaker is doing the entire streets repaving projects across the city for a low bid of $1.3 million, Scott noted.