For more information contact:
Julianne Repman, Public Information Representative, (541) 388-6224
OTIA Web site: http://egov.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/OTIA/
Paving, Traffic Switch to Cause Delays on U.S. 97 North of Terrebonne
Monday, Oct. 3, contractor crews working for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) will switch southbound traffic to a newly constructed bridge on U.S. 97, two miles north of Terrebonne (milepost 113.9). Northbound traffic will be switched to the structure during the week of Oct. 10. Work is weather permitting and will take place from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Flaggers will control traffic. Drivers should expect delays of up to nine minutes for each of these traffic switches.
UPRR Bridge Replacement
Work on the bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad north of Terrebonne is occurring in phases. During the first phase, crews built a new, two-lane bridge with 10-foot shoulders west of the existing bridge. Traffic has remained on the existing bridge during construction. After all traffic switches to the new bridge, crews will remove the existing bridge.
This project is part of a $30.5 million ODOT contract awarded to Wildish Standard Paving to replace 11 bridges on U.S. 26, U.S. 97 and Oregon 224. 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) program. During the next decade, 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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