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| 2/22/2005 |
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U.S. 97: California Avenue Bridge Work to Reduce Traffic to One Lane
For more information contact Julianne Repman (541) 388-6224
Traffic will be reduced to one lane on U.S. 97 at milepost (MP) 274.7 on Thursday, Feb. 24 between 7:00 am and 5:00 pm, and Friday, Feb. 25, between 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. During the closure period, traffic will be reduced to one lane, alternating directions, with flaggers controlling motorist movements. Motorists should anticipate delays of less than 20-minutes when traveling through this work zone.
Contractor crews will use the temporary lane reduction period to drive piles and move equipment for the detour structure that is being built immediately west of the existing U.S. 97 bridge over California Avenue in the City of Klamath Falls. The length of the closure area is approximately 300 yards.
The work is part of a project to replace the U.S. 97 bridge over California Avenue in Klamath Falls. Constructing a detour structure is the first phase of the project. Once it is completed, traffic will be rerouted to the detour structure, and the existing bridge over California Avenue will be removed and a new bridge built in its place. The new bridge is expected to open to traffic in April 2006.
The project is funded by the Oregon Transportation Investment Act (OTIA) III State Bridge Delivery Program, which is part of the Oregon Department of Transportation's 10-year, $3 billion Oregon Transportation Investment Act program. During the next decade, OTIA will repair or replace hundreds of bridges, pave and maintain city and county roads, improve and expand interchanges, add new capacity to Oregon's highway system, and remove freight bottlenecks statewide. About 18 family-wage jobs are sustained for every $1 million spent on transportation construction in Oregon. Each year during the OTIA program, construction projects will sustain about 5,000 family-wage jobs.
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