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| Traffic to shift on OR126 bridge west of Eugene |
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| 04/15/2010 |
April 15, 2010 For more information: Rick Little (541) 726-2442
04-77-R2 email at: mailto:richard.little@odot.state.or.us
Detour bridge opens on Oregon 126 west of Eugene
SPRINGFIELD— Contractors for the Oregon Department of Transportation will shift traffic onto a temporary detour bridge at the Oakhill Bridge site where Oregon 126 and KR Neilson Road intersect over the Coos Bay Rail Link Railroad near the Eugene city limits. The traffic will shift this Friday, April 16, weather permitting.
Flaggers will maintain traffic flow Wednesday, April 14 through Friday, April 16 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., closing a lane to provide striping on the detour bridge. Minimal impacts to drivers are expected.
After April 16, flaggers will be on site as needed to ensure safe traffic flow and assist with construction staging. ODOT anticipates completion of the Oakhill Bridge replacement project by May 2011.
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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