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| Night delays expected on OR126 west of Eugene |
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| 01/19/2010 |
January 19, 2010 For more information: Rick Little (541) 726-2442
01-016-R2 email at: mailto:richard.little@odot.state.or.us
Watch for nighttime lane closures on Oregon 126 at KR Neilson Road
SPRINGFIELD— Contractors for the Oregon Department of Transportation have begun building a temporary detour at the Oakhill Bridge where Oregon 126 and KR Neilson Road intersect over the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad.
Drivers can expect brief overnight delays from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. through Sunday, January 24. Flaggers will stop traffic to allow construction trucks to enter and exit the roadway. These temporary delays will allow the contractor to begin building an embankment for a detour bridge to be constructed alongside Oakhill Bridge.
Work will continue nightly through mid-February with no flaggers or additional traffic impacts.
This work is part of a $53.4 million bridge bundle project that will replace six bridges and repair two others in Douglas and Lane counties. The project is funded by the Oregon Transportation Investment Act.
The OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program is part of the Oregon Department of Transportation's 10-year, $3 billion Oregon Transportation Investment Act. OTIA funds are repairing or replacing hundreds of bridges, paving and maintaining city and county roads, improving and expanding interchanges, adding new capacity to Oregon's highway system, and removing freight bottlenecks statewide. Based on 2008 dollars, about 14 family-wage jobs are sustained for every $1 million spent on transportation construction in Oregon. Each year during the remainder of the OTIA program, we estimate that construction projects will sustain an average of 4,100 family-wage jobs.
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