A block-long Latrobe street bordered by parking lots for the town’s hospital is among a dozen streets that are slated for improvement in an upcoming city paving project.

Derry Construction was awarded the $367,343 contract for the project — including extensive work on Taft Street. which intersects with Second Avenue across from Independence Health Latrobe Hospital.

“It’s one of the worst ones that are getting done,” city public works director Scott Wajdic said of the street. “It’s getting a new base plus a new base drain” — the latter extending about 500 feet in length.

The section of Second Avenue that runs directly in front of the hospital — between Main Street and Garfield Road — will get a base repair covering about 900 square yards, topped with 774 tons of asphalt.

A portion of Walnut Street, between Sylvan and Arlington avenues, also is slated for resurfacing, with a 270-foot segment set to undergo a base repair.

Paving additionally is planned on sections of:

• Ligonier Street, running 1,080 feet from the intersection of Avenue D;

• Oak Street, between Ligonier and Alexandria streets and from Jefferson Street to a dead end;

• Sylvan Avenue, between Josephine and Princeton streets;

• Spring Street, a 699-foot portion intersecting with Truman Avenue

• Truman Avenue, a 100-foot section intersecting with Denman Way;

• Brinker Avenue, between Ridge and Truman avenues;

• Chambers Street, between Lloyd and North avenues;

• Chestnut Street, between Raymond and Lincoln avenues;

• Harding Street, between Oak and Washington streets.

Some of the areas targeted for paving were excavated during work by Peoples Gas, which will cover about half of the cost, according to Wajdic.

The paving will be timed so that it doesn’t interfere with Latrobe’s annual 4th of July celebration, which includes activities July 3 and 4.

Much of Lincoln Avenue — between Latrobe’s Main Street and Route 982 in Derry Township — also is in line to be resurfaced this summer, in a cooperative effort by the neighboring municipalities.

A portion of state gaming revenue will help fund that work.

“It’s got some potholes and wear and tear,” Wajdic said of Lincoln. “That’s a road that every four or five yeas needs to be seal-coated.”

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