T-L Photo/JOSIE BURKHART Patterson Road in Brookside will reopen next Wednesday, allowing traffic on U.S. 40 to flow freely again once the eastbound lane is open.

BROOKSIDE — Residents can expect Patterson Road to reopen Wednesday after months of construction.

Village Council learned last week that the Ohio Department of Transportation will be finishing up the project that was to replace a culvert along U.S. 40.

Traffic on National Road is being maintained throughout construction with temporary traffic signals.

Patterson Run Road was closed throughout the project. Drivers have been detouring on Walnut Avenue to Chestnut Street and reverse.

ODOT planned to pave the area on Friday and Saturday, and crews will finish the sidewalk on Monda. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the signals will be taken down, and U.S 40 will fully reopen after that. The red light will not be going back up; instead, a stop sign will be placed at the end of Patterson Road.

Brookside Mayor Rich Kurner said a couple weeks after ODOT started the project, the Blaine Hill Bridge was shut down, causing traffic from Blaine, Lansing and Wolfhurst to flow through Brookside around the Patterson Road project to reach the designated detour on Interstate 70.

“It should help with the traffic flow quite a bit that way,” he said of the completion of the Patterson Road project. “It won’t have the light there, and everything won’t be backing up anymore.”

Kurner said the eastbound lane of U.S. 40 should be open at some point Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Brookside Volunteer Fire Department gave an update on funding for the new village building and firehouse. The funding is still pending, and Fire Chief Allan Ketzel III said there’s an application process to get the money the department has been awarded released. The village is working to get letters of support, financial statements and other essentials in place to get it released.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the department $2,250,000. Ketzell said no dates for the construction are set, as he is still going through the process of getting the money.

The fire department proposed a fire levy in 2021 that was passed by voters 110-39 that will generate $30,000-$31,000 per year to help fund the new building, which will be located at 870 National Road.

Ketzel said the floor of the current building partially collapsed in August 2022. Since then, firefighters have not been able to put any department vehicles in the station.

Brookside Village Council will be moving its regular monthly meeting to 6 p.m. Dec. 17 because Kurner will be out of town on the regular meeting date.