After a year of waiting, Catonsville residents will have to wait a little longer before construction on Bloomsbury Avenue is completed.

Human error and poor weather mean construction crews won't finish the $1 million project until November, said David Fidler, a spokesman for Baltimore County Department of Public Works.

The construction project, which extends from Frederick Road to Cinnamon Tree Court, will add sidewalks, repave the road and install curbs, gutters and storm drains.

"I think it was internal changes and correcting errors made by various people," Fidler said."The weather didn't help things.

"We had hoped it would be completed a little earlier."

One of the errors that delayed the project occurred when construction workers laid a pipe in the wrong location and had to fix it, Fidler said.

Heavy downpours and last month's earthquake also played a role in delaying the project's completion, but Fidler said he is not aware of repairs necessitated by the weather or seismic activity.

Despite the delays, Fidler said that, as far as he knows, construct crews "are still in the contract time."

Fidler said construction is not completed until it passes county inspection.

"If there is a crack because a piece of heavy equipment (damaged it), that will have to be repaired or replaced," Fidler said,

As rain fell at 11 a.m. on Sept. 23, no construction crews were working on the busy street that boasts the Catonsville Community Center and the Children's Home and also connects Frederick and South Rolling roads.

It appeared that most of the work on the curbs and sidewalks had been completed.

The riding surface along Bloomsbury Avenue alternated between smooth and grooved and manhole covers jutted above the surface by several inches.

Fidler said once the project is completed, the surface of the road will be even with the manhole covers.

The end of construction can't come soon enough for Francis Hannon, who has lived on the 100 block of Bloomsbury Avenue for more than 60 years.

Except when weather forced him inside, the 89-year-old said he has watched the crews work every day.

When told the project is expected to be finished in November, a skeptical Hannon said, "I'll have to see it to believe it."

Part of his doubt comes from what he has already witnessed.

Hannon said he has seen construction crews install sidewalks and curbs, only to rip them up shortly thereafter.

Even while expressing doubt that the road would be finished in the next two months, Hannon said he is pleased with some of the results so far.

In front of his house, for example, is a brand new sidewalk.

"You would almost get hit by the rearview mirrors (of passing cars)," Hannon said of walking along the road before the sidewalks were installed.

Whenever the project is completed, Hannon said, he will appreciate the new road. But he warned it may create a new problem.

"It's gonna be a race track here the way they come up and down this road," said Hannon, whose house has been hit by a car three times since he's lived there.