Relief could be coming for drivers and residents who’ve lived with an unfinished highway widening project on Route 206 in Central Jersey for a year after state Department of Transportation officials said a new contractor could be on the job soon to finish the work. Work on a $41 million widening project to add two new lanes and rebuild intersections on Route 206 in Hillsborough that has been dormant for a year could resume shortly, said Acting Transportation Commissioner Francis K. O’Connor during Monday’s Assembly budget hearing. The hold up in completing the job is because for the first time…