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| Franklin ramp to I-5 SB to close |
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| 06/15/2010 |
June 15, 2010 For more information: Rick Little (541) 726-2442
06-133-R2 email at: mailto:richard.little@odot.state.or.us
I-5 on-ramp to close for five months
SPRINGFIELD — Contractors for the Oregon Department of Transportation will close the Franklin Boulevard on-ramp to southbound Interstate 5 to build a sound wall and realign the ramp with the new I-5 bridge. The ramp will be closed from Monday, June 21 through late November.
Traffic heading to southbound I-5 will detour on Franklin Boulevard to Glenwood Boulevard. Signs will alert drivers to the change in advance and throughout the closure. Local traffic access to Riverview Street will remain open throughout closure.
The I-5 northbound off-ramp to Franklin Boulevard, currently closed, will reopen on July 1.
For the latest information about the project, please visit the project Web site at www.willamettebridge.org or follow the project on @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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