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~ i <br /> <br /> r ~ .++r <br /> PUBLIC WO S DEPARTMENT • 858 PEARL • EUGENE, OREGON 97401 <br /> NEWS RELEASE , <br /> August 29, 1989 <br /> i <br /> CONTACT: at Bayes, Project Manager, 687-5228 <br /> j oug Weber, Engineering, 341-5866 <br /> From Sandr Gleason, Public Information, 687-5523 <br /> FOR IMMEDI TE RELEASE <br /> EARL AND HIGH STREETS TO BE CLOSED TO PAVE EIGHTH AVENUE <br /> AND WORK TO BEGIN ON EAST BROADWAY <br /> On Sa urday, September 2, from 5:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wildish Corvallis <br /> ~ Constructi n Co., will pave Eighth Avenue. During Saturday's paving, both <br /> Pearl and High Streets between Seventh Avenue and Broadway will be completely <br /> ~ closed to through traffic, and motorists will be detoured around the area. <br /> Eighth Av nue will be reopened beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday evening, <br /> completin the first phase of the project. Work will continue on the <br /> I~ sidewalks and parking lot entrances over the next several weeks but no delays <br /> to traffi are expected. <br /> Phas two of the project, reconstruction of East Broadway between Pearl <br /> Street an Franklin Boulevard, will begin on Tuesday, September 5 and will <br /> continue ntil October 22. Crews will barricade the street beginning at 5 <br /> a.m. on T esday morning, completely closing the project area to through <br /> traffic. Two lanes of traffic will be kept open on Pearl and High Streets; <br /> i <br /> west boun traffic onto Broadway from Franklin Boulevard will be detoured to <br /> Sixth Ave ue. All on-street parking within the project area will be removed <br /> during th reconstruction. <br /> more <br /> I <br /> <br />