A spell of intense winter weather in late February that left piles of snow throughout Bend for weeks delayed some road construction that would have started earlier if weather allowed.

“It was both when the weather hit and then waiting for it to clear,” city spokesman Joshua Romero said.

Railroad work above Greenwood Avenue, a redesign of the south Mirror Pond parking lot, a transformation of two neighborhood streets into bike-friendly “greenways” and work around the intersection at Empire Avenue and Purcell Boulevard are the biggest projects in the coming weeks. The city’s streets department is finalizing its summer street preservation program and will have more information during the next few weeks on which roads in Bend will be repaved or coated with protective sealants, Romero said.

Starting Sunday evening, the westbound lanes of Greenwood Avenue between Third Street and the Bend Parkway will close for about seven weeks while BNSF Railway Co. replaces decking on the railroad bridge over Greenwood Avenue.

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