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| Path detours planned in Whilamut Natural Area |
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| 04/12/2010 |
April 12, 2010 For more information: Rick Little (541) 726-2442
04-073-R2 email at: mailto:richard.little@odot.state.or.us
Path detours planned in Whilamut Natural Area
SPRINGFIELD — Contractors for the Oregon Department of Transportation will close the Canoe Canal Path under Interstate 5 in the Whilamut Natural Area from April 19 until May 3. Path users will use the North Bank Path during the closure.
Crews are using paths and parkland in the Whilamut Natural Area of Alton Baker Park for staging equipment for construction of the new Willamette River Bridge. Path users can expect delays, closures and detours near the construction site until project completion in late 2013. An east-west route through the construction zone will always be open.
Signs indicating the closure and detour route will be posted in the park, and flaggers will direct path users to marked detours. Bicyclists are subject to the same rules as other vehicles in construction zones. By law, they must obey flaggers and not use a closed path.
Outreach scheduled for detour change
Members of ODOT’s project team will be in the Whilamut Natural Area near the construction project providing information on the Canoe Canal Path changes on Wednesday, April 14, from
3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
For the latest information about the project please visit the project Web site at www.willamettebridge.org or follow the project @OregonDOT on Twitter. Visit www.Tripcheck.com for current traffic conditions.
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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