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| Bridges repaired early |
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| 04/22/2010 |
April 22, 2010 For more information: Lou Torres, 503-986-2880
04-82 Brad Wurfel, 503-731-3196
ODOT finishes bridge repairs early on OR 6 and U.S. 26
TILLAMOOK—Three bridges on Oregon 6 and U.S. 26 in Tillamook and Washington counties are stronger and safer, six months earlier than planned.
Crews with the MJ Hughes Construction Company of Gresham, a contractor for the Oregon Department of Transportation, finished repairing the bridge over Jordan Creek where it meets with the Wilson River on Oregon 6 at milepost 18, and another bridge over the Wilson River at milepost 11.8. The third bridge repair was on westbound U.S. 26 over the Portland & Western Railroad tracks at milepost 55.7, just east of the Dersham Road interchange.
The bridges were built between 1937 and 1951, and needed to be strengthened to improve safety and mobility. Funding for this project came from the Oregon Transportation Investment Act.
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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.
Slow down! Better roads ahead: Oregon remains open for business as ODOT modernizes the state’s critical transportation lifelines. Know before you go: dial 511 or visit TripCheck.com.
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