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For More Information Contact: Julianne Repman, ODOT Public Affairs, 541.388.6224
One-lane traffic: Oregon 58 bridges at Crescent Creek and Odell Creek
The week of Monday, April 10, drivers on the Crescent Creek and Odell Creek bridges on Oregon 58 near the Crescent Lake junction should expect alternating one-way traffic controlled by temporary traffic signals and minor delays.
The closed lane of each bridge will be demolished and rebuilt, and then reopened to traffic while the opposite lane is replaced. Alternating one-way traffic at both bridges is scheduled to last until approximately September, when construction work is scheduled to be finished.
This $2.5 million contract to replace the bridges was awarded by the Oregon Department of Transportation to Wildish Standard Paving Company, of Eugene, Ore.
The Crescent Creek and Odell Creek bridge projects are funded by the 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. OTIA funds 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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