Motorists will be cruising on fresh, smooth road this morning after a paving project shut down the Lincoln Way/High Street intersection Thursday.

Cook Engineering crews spread 350 tons, or around 19 truckloads, of asphalt on the intersection as part of the city’s Streetscape renovation project.

“They minimized the striping, they did a good job,” said Bernie Schroeder, engineering division manager with the city. “It isn’t obvious where the paving machine went through.”

The work required a detour. Traffic in both directions on High Street and Lincoln Way was rerouted onto Pine, East Placer and Finley streets.

“It was a smooth day. I’m really pleased,” Schroeder said. Sidewalks remained open to pedestrians, but there wasn’t much foot traffic just after noon.

Geri Godsey and a friend said they didn’t have any problems walking from her Geri’s Reflections Salon on Lewis Street to Hanami Sushi for lunch.

“I just hope they get this thing done,” Godsey said.

Anna Carter, an employee Downtown, said driving into work was a bit tricky.

“It was a little inconvenient,” she said. “That part of the street was blocked off, so I started crawling through and a guy yelled, ‘Stop, Stop!’”

Once the crewman knew she just needed to get past the detour to get to work, he let her go through.

“I feel sorry for all the businesses here,” she said.