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| Bridge work nears completion |
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| 07/06/2010 |
July 6, 2010 For more information: Rick Little (541) 726-2442
07-152-R2 email at: mailto:richard.little@odot.state.or.us
Work on Siuslaw River and Knowles Creek bridges nearly complete
EUGENE— Contractors for the Oregon Department of Transportation are nearly finished with their work at the Siuslaw River Bridge (Oregon 126, milepost 26.5) and Knowles Creek Bridge (Oregon 126, milepost 18.5) Traffic will shift onto the new bridges in July.
During the following months, the temporary detour bridges will be removed and the construction crew will build final embankments. Drivers should watch for intermittent flagging and lane closures.
In late summer, crews will begin repairing the Wildcat Creek Bridge (Oregon 126, milepost 27.7), five miles west of Walton. Workers will repair cracks and strengthen the bridge. Alternating one-way traffic will be controlled by flaggers.
This work is part of a $53.4 million 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.
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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.
For updated information on highway work and current travel information throughout Oregon, visit www.tripcheck.comor call the toll-free Oregon road report at 511 or (800) 977-6368.
Visit the ODOT News Media Center at www.oregon.gov/ODOT/COMM/.
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